Cross Gates
Primary School
Aspire, Learn, Succeed
Cross Gates
Primary School
Aspire, Learn, Succeed
w/c 15/01/24
This week we have been learning about the following vowel digraphs: oo oo or ar. The children have learned that there are 2 different ways to say the oo digraph (a short /u/ sound as in book, hook, cook or a longer /oo/ sound as in cool, zoom, food). Sometimes we just have to try each one when decoding a word with oo to see which digraph sounds correct and makes sense in the word.
Each of the new digraphs/trigraphs in Phase 3 has a catchphrase and picture to help the children recall the matching phoneme:
To embed this learning further, it would be helpful to your child if you could practise reading and writing the following words and captions at home:
look cook book wood foot hook | too boot food moon zoom cool | car dark card park card march | for torn fork born sort horn |
The moon is up high. Look at the toad on the wood. I can see the car in the dark. The goat was born at night. This book is cool! | |||
New Tricky Words:
This week we have been learning the following new tricky words. As we have done in previous weeks, we have highlighted the 'tricky' parts that do not sound out in red.
was
you
they