Sound Waves Spelling      at Home

Supporting Sound Waves Spelling at Home

Our next fortnight in Sound Waves Spelling will be focusing on a range of phonemes (sounds) and their spelling patterns (graphemes). You can help to support your child’s developing phonemic awareness and phonics skills by engaging in some fun activities at home.

Foundation:

Foundation students will be looking at one sound each day. They will be listening to the sound, finding the sound in words, and learning to write the grapheme (letter representation) of the sound.

Their focus sounds over the next two weeks are:

Years 1-6:

Years 1 to 6 will be focusing on the phonemes: 

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Home Support: 

To support your child at home you might like to allow them to complete some of the interactive activities found at the QR code below using their class code. Please see your child’s teacher if your child has forgotten their class code.

1. If your child is in Foundation, you might like to start with an interactive game of ‘What’s Missing?’. There will be six pictures of things containing the focus phoneme. Discuss what the pictures are - make sure they are thinking about the sounds in the words. Once you hide the pictures, they will need to work out which picture has been taken away. This is a great memory game as well as a chance to talk a lot about the focus sound.

2. In Years 1-6, a fun activity to begin with is ‘Word Unjumbler’. Your child will be asked to unjumble their focus words to help the duck cross the bridge.

3. Focus Sound Search: See how many words your child can find with the focus sound. This could become a family competition! 

Here is an example of a focus sound search picture (for the /i/):

Possible picture names include: bib, bring, chicken, chin, dish, earring, fiddle, fin, fingers, fish, frills, fringe, gifts, grin, igloo, ink, inside, instrument, kid, king, kitten, knit, pig, pillow, pink, ribbon, ring, rip, ship, sit, six, stitches, string, thin, think, tin, twins, violin, whiskers, wing (as well  as identical, pillar, quill, tunic).

4. Away from the iPad… 

When reading at home, challenge your child to find words in their book with the focus phoneme (sound). How many different graphemes (letter representations) can they find for the sound?

Your little ones will also love playing ‘I Spy’ with you. This is a great way to help your child think about the starting sounds of words, and is also a fun whole family game that can be played anywhere.

Most importantly, keep it fun and celebrate all their wonderful spelling attempts 🙂