The Practice Books
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Series Two - Robot Book
• Series 2, for Year 1 covers the advanced code; the vowel phonemes and their spelling choices • This book is from level 11, which practices the phoneme /ay/ and its four representations: a, ay, ai and a_e
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What is the advanced code? Now that your child knows how to pronounce simple sounds that are represented by 1 or 2 letters, it is time to move on to learning how to read and spell a sound that can be represented many different ways. For example the sound /ay/ as in day and /ai/ as in rain.
How to use this book During the week your child has been learning a collection of letter combinations (digraphs) that all represent the same sound. Look at the words on page 2 and practise reading these words with your child. When you have read all the words, move on to reading the sentences on pages 3-12. These sentences contain some camera words. If your child gets stuck on a decodable word, a gentle reminder of the phoneme that each letter(s) represents should help. Run your finger along the word saying each phoneme and then finally read the whole word.
Pronouncing the phonemes Below are the most common ways that the target sound can be represented. Digraph a ai ay a_e
As in the word apron paid day cake
Read it! Spell it! When your child has read all the sentences and phrases a number of times, move on to the Read it! Spell it! page. First ask your child to read the list of words as quickly and as accurately as possible. The aim here is for your child to be able to read each word automatically without sounding out. Next, make sure that your child cannot see the words. Read each word clearly. Then ask your child to spell the word ensuring that each phoneme is said out loud as it is written.
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Book 5.4 Enjoying The Ride ISBN: 978-988-99306-3-9 Printed in China by WKT
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Warm up with practice at single word decoding. You will notice that the target phoneme has been highlighted in blue to draw attention to its position in the word.
Ray shape brain whale Shane made cake
take Spain shade wait painting play April
The first thing you will notice is that the illustrations do not support the sentences. This is important for a decodable book. We want children to read the word not guess from the picture.
Will you play?
We cram as many target words into each sentence as possible, because practice makes perfect! This page has two, using the words ‘Ray’ and ‘painting’.
Ray stops painting.
Notice that the camera words, or irregular, high frequency words, are in bold. This gives children a helpful hint that a different strategy needs to be used for these words.
Those are shapes.
I have a big brain.
The book requires children to read a sentence, increasing in length from three to five words.
Our whale swims away.
Shane made a cake.
The books have been designed to be read a number of times, thus developing children’s confidence and fluency.
Jane went to Spain.
The books are good for building vocabulary. After the book has been read a few times ask children about the meaning of some sentences and any vocabulary that may be new.
April sits in the shade.
Wait! The paint is wet.
Jake will take the cake.
Read it! Spell it!
made cake
Fluency is an important part of reading. It is a good idea to ask children to read each word quickly and accurately. This helps to make the reading of the words automatic.
April
shape
play
whale
wait
take
paint
Spain
Knowing the phonemes helps children to spell as well as read. As the adult reads the word aloud children listen for the phonemes and write the corresponding letters.
brain
shade
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Phoneme /ay/ and the spelling choices:
a ai ay a_e
Robot Book 5.4 Enjoying The Ride
Objectives 3 To read and spell words containing the phoneme /ay/ 3 To recognise the most common ways /ay/ can be represented 3 To learn to read an increasing number of irregular, high frequency words 3 To read sentences and phrases with increasing fluency