Mrs Pryces New Funny Phonics segmentingblendingreading th digraph

Mrs Pryce’s New Funny Phonics segmenting/blending/reading th digraph

Tricky words: the (and ch digraph) (to be rehearsed before reading sentences). Activity: • Children use pictures to ‘guess’ (predict) what the word could be. Some words are obvious and some may take some discussion, with trial and error. Possible prompts: “That would make sense. If you are right, what sound will come first? ” “Were you right? What would come next? ” or “Let’s have another guess. What could it be, beginning with that first sound? ” This will encourage children to make predictions when reading, as well as segmenting and blending, and to cross check predictions by looking at the letters. • After each set of words, there are slides using phoneme grids. It is an opportunity to use white boards, if appropriate, for children to write their responses. • In slides 11 to 13, ask children to re-read the sentence fluently once they have correctly decoded each word. • Slide 13 requires children to ‘read on’ before predicting the missing word. • The last slide gives an opportunity for children to practise reading words at speed. • Tricky sight words are kept to a minimum so digraphs can be taught in any order.