As an adult, you may have developed habits in which you form letters differently to the proscribed way, and I'm sure it doesn't hold you back. But trust us when we say that forming letters with the right start and end points makes things easier in the long run.
All about phonics - an explainer for parents
The individual sounds are called 'phonemes' and the way they look when they are written down (the letter or groups of letters that we use to spell the sound) are called 'graphemes'.
Conjunctions
Conjunctions are words that join ideas together. We use them to link two phrases in a sentence.
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We'll start with the basics which kids are exposed to in reception and year 1, and then move on through the years to the trickier elements that children are expected to tackle towards the end of primary school.
Prefixes
Prefixes are groups of letters that we add to the start of a word to make a new word.
Plurals
Your child's first encounter with plurals will come as an introduction to the concept of there being one of something, or more than one of something. This comes with the associated word difference, and for most words we just add an 's' to the end.
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Plurals
Your child's first encounter with plurals will come as an introduction to the concept of there being one of something, or more than one of something. This comes with the associated word difference, and for most words we just add an 's' to the end.
Key skills for English literacy in Y1
In Year 1 English, children begin their journey of learning how to communicate clearly through the written word. Their literacy lessons start to become a little more structured and desk-based as they work on handwriting and spelling.
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