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Nessy is ideal if you are considering home educating, or if you just want to give your child’s reading and spelling skills a boost. Nessy programmess are based on the Science of Reading, so you can be sure that they are effective. Children enjoy learning with Nessy because it is game-based and learning is structured into small manageable steps.
Phonics Vocabulary
Phonics has its very own vocabulary! At first, a lot of these words seem alien to most of us, but after using them daily, they just flow naturally. What is good is that this vocabulary can be used consistently in phonics sessions. Here are some terms that are regularly used.
BLEND – To combine individual phonemes that make up a word by merging them together in one continuous stream of sound to say the whole word e.g. blend the phonemes /sh/ /e/ /d/ together to say the word ‘shed’. For those learners who need more help with oral blending, then the arm can be used for multisensory support.
SEGMENT – To segment means to separate a word into its individual units of sound (phonemes). In order to spell a word, it first needs to be segmented e.g. chip would be /ch/ /i/ /p/. When segmenting, it is beneficial to use the multisensory learning of using the fingers to isolate and count the phonemes as shown in video below.
GRAPHEME – This is a letter or group of leters written down to represent a particular phoneme. The way graphemes are used to represent phonemes is known as the ‘alphabetic code’.
PHONEME – This is an individual sound in words, which is the smallest unit of sound in speech e.g. the word shop has 3 phonemes /sh/ /o/ /p/.
With one thing and another, I seem to be publishing these blogs once a month rather than once a week. With today being 24th November, in a month from today it will be Christmas Eve! You may or may not have wanted to hear that news…….However, I hope you all enjoy the rest of November and the run up to Christmas. Take care. PJ 🙂
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