Each week we regularly start our reading sessions with Super Sounds. This is where students learn about different phonemes (sounds), digraphs (two letters to make one sound, e.g. ll in in still or 'kn' in knit), and trigraphs (three letters to make one sounds, e.g. tch in witch). We usually focus on one phoneme each week. This is one part of our literacy programme. After our super sound sessions, we move into other literacy learning such as guided reading sessions with the teacher and shared reading activities.
In Super Sounds, we practise blending and segmenting words, 'roboting' the words. This is where students sound out the word on the card and then put it back together. This practice really helps students to identify the individual sounds in words which also helps when they are reading books. When we come across words we're not sure of at home, you could by 'roboting' the word to try work it out!