Teach your Monster to Read – Free app!
I have no connection to this app, however parents have previously shared positive reviews!
Teach your Monster to Read is a fantastic FREE website where children play games and learn letter sounds and words. Today, your child will come home with log-in details for this website.
Subscription is free and the website is free, however there is usually a charge to download the App (the app is not necessary, but makes logging in easier).
Until Wednesday September 11th, the apps are FREE to download.
Follow the links below to your app store:
If you download after Weds 11th, the apps will be charged at their usual rates.
Literacy through self-lead learning
Developing fine motor skills, pencil grip, mark making, letter formation and letter sounds.
Reading Folders
Primary 1 read in class on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Pupils take their folder home on Thursdays.
Inside the plastic folder is a book, flashcards and reading record. The reading record is for adults to write in to comment or ask questions.
Reading folders should be returned to school on Mondays. This gives staff time to change the book over ready for Tuesday’s reading.
Click here to download a PDF copy of the help sheet and QR code games.
Reading Books
Primary 1 will start with wordless picture books. We learn that stories have characters and that they have a beginning, middle and end. Here are some of the characters we will see in our stories.
You can read more stories together at home by signing up to a free Oxford Owl account.
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/
It is important that when you are reading together, you feel that you can talk in whichever language you and your child feels most comfortable in.
Click Here to find out more about reading wordless books.
Phonics
We are learning how to build words with the letters s,a,t,i,p,n and m. We start by singing the Jolly Phonics songs, making sure that we make the pure sounds (mmm, not muh) then move on to forming the letters. We use Fred Fingers for spelling then we make the words on white boards and magnetic boards. Have a go at home with these online magnetic letters. Can you read and write these words? sat, pin, man, ant, tin, pit, nap.
Writing letters
You may find that your child can make the letter shapes but in a different way. An a, for example, can be drawn as a circle with a tail added afterwards. Although it may have the same outcome, forming the letters as we ask is very important as it will help your child when they start to join letters together.
Try making your letters in lots of different ways; Outside with sticks and flowers, with Lego, with salt, shaving foam, sprinkles, rice, Playdough, sand…
Thank you for taking the time to engage with what Primary 1 has been learning. You are welcome to reply to this post with questions or messages to say Hello!
Many thanks, Miss Copeland
Royal Mile Primary School 