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Fred Frog games | Westwood Primary School Fred Frog games | Westwood Primary School

Understanding phonetics does not only help children in reading complex pieces of fiction but also in following school lessons. It improves their spelling skill and enhances their knowledge of word families. For example, Fred would say d-o-g, we would say dog. Your child is taught to hear sounds and blend them together in sequence to make a word. We start with blending oral sounds, then progress to reading the letters and blending them together to read the word. Some sounds are together in a word but are two diferetn pure sounds that need to be heard separately.

Funny Photo Phonics Fred the Frog is yet another installment of the popular series Funny Photo Phonics. These books are specially curated to match the reading levels of beginner readers and improve their reading comprehension. With a specific focus on phonics, these books aim to increase their knowledge of sounds and pronunciations of letter and syllables in the English language. This works to enhance their overall language skills. When two or more consonants appear together and you hear each sound that each consonant would normally make, the consonant team is called a consonant blend. For instance, the word blend has two consonant blends: bl, for which you hear the sounds for both b and l, and nd, for which you hear the sounds for both n and d.

Fred Talk – Blending skills. – Abbots Phonics Fred Talk – Blending skills. – Abbots Phonics

At school we use a puppet called Fred who can only speak in sounds, not whole words. We call this Fred Talk. Phonics Bloom is an interactive educational resource, providing phonics games for both the classroom and home. A digraph is a single sound, or phoneme, which is represented by two letters. A trigraph is a phoneme which consists of three letters. However, many people will simply use the term ‘digraph’ generally to describe both combinations. In digraphs, consonants join together to form a kind of consonant team, which makes a special sound. For instance, p and h combine to form ph, which makes the /f/ sound as in phonemic. FRED TALK helps children read unfamiliar words by pronouncing each sound in the word one at a time. Children can start blending sounds into words as soon as they know a small group of letters well. Sound blending is essential in reading. Here are some ideas to help your child blend the sounds in words.