Reception Phonics With Tricky Words

Children are taught phonics in nursery. This is often listening to different types of sounds including everyday noises and experimenting with musical instruments

In phonics we teach children the sounds made by each letter that help them to read and write words. We also teach deceptive words that cannot be heard and very high-sounding words that can be distinguished.

We will explain how phonemes and then graphemes are taught in the classroom, and what words children are expected to be able to write by the end of their first year of primary school.

Letters and sounds Reception Phonics

Children learn to recognize all the letters of the alphabet in Reception, the idea being that any time they are faced with a letter they will be able to make the sound of that letter.

Note: Explore letter recognition worksheets designed to help kids find the correct letter among group of alphabet.

Reception Reading: Children will be taught the sounds of the characters with a variety of songs, games and activities appropriate for years, for example: ‘lucky dip’ where they have to say the sound of the book they have chosen or match the object with the letter that makes the first sound. 

Reception Writing: Adoptive children need to learn how to form the letters they learn.

They need to start by understanding how the book is made and begin to make their own suggestions. For example, a child who is learning to form the letter ‘s’ can be given an adult demonstration of how this can be done in a particular sand, and then encouraged to copy. They can also practice using a variety of different media, such as pencils on a white board, chalk on a board and a pencil on paper.

During the second term of Reception children begin to learn to combine sounds, which means that when the word ‘cat’ is shown, instead of saying each letter as a different sound, they are able to combine sounds together to say the whole word.

Children will then move onto reading (consonant consonant vowel consonant) such as ‘snap’ and (consonant vowel consonant consonant) such as ‘fast’.

By the end of Reception, children are expected to be able to write one (written symbol) for each of the (sounds) in the English language, which are:

Reception Tricky Words List

Following is a lit of tricky words for reception kids.

Keep exploring Englishbix to find perfect phonics worksheets for teaching your kids.

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