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Learning to Read, Spell and Write in Our Reception Classes
We thought you might like to know how we start the teaching of reading, spelling and writing in the Reception classes.
We follow the 'synthetic approach' method to teach reading. We have been following this approach for about 9 years and we have found it to be successful. the Government now advocate the teaching of 'synthetic phonics' as the best way to teach reading. This approach enables the children to develop a sound basic reading skill which enables them to ‘crack the code’. This method links reading, writing, and spelling from the beginning. The whole of the Autumn Term will be devoted to teaching the 26 individual letters of the alphabet as sounds (the Basic Code). We will teach letter names (ay, bee, see, dee etc.) but our emphasis will be on sound recognition as this helps in the reading process. We will be using the Letterland scheme as an introduction to the sounds, which we call phonemes. As soon as possible we will begin building words with three phonemes, for example, cat, dig, bag, sit.
At the same time, your child will be taught the correct formation of each letter (lower case). Some children do find this difficult so the reception curriculum includes a variety of activities to help improve fine motor control e.g. tracing, pattern work, sand play, painting, chalking, colouring, drawing, scribbling, cutting, manipulating playdough/clay, using construction etc. From this you will see that reading, spelling and writing are linked from the beginning.
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