Teaching early reading

Teaching reading in Reception

We use Essential Letters and Sounds to teach early reading in Reception. We plan carefully to ensure that lessons are focused to what the children need and are followed up by a selection of creative and immersive activities to help embed the children's learning.

Watch the videos to see some of the ways we teach reading in Reception.

Learning a new sound: Recapping previous sounds:

New sound d.mov

Recapping sounds.mov

Blending sounds to read words:

Blending S.MOV

The video below shows how to blend sounds to read words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqvqMtSNswo&t=1s

How should the sounds be pronounced?

Children learn to read letters or groups of letters by saying the sounds they represent. Pronounce the sounds as you would say them within a word. Make sure you don’t add ‘uh’ onto the end, so for ‘m’ say ‘mm’ not ‘muh’ and for ‘l’ say ‘ull’ not ‘luh’. The below video gives you all 44 sounds in English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCI2mu7URBc&t=4s

See the video below for pronunciation support from school.

satp pronounciation.MOV

See the video below of ELS Phonics being taught in Reception.

ELS phonics .mov