Phonics focus of the day - 15th June, 2020 -
This week we are going to look at something we have done before in school but you may have forgotten. We are going to look at prefixes and suffixes. A prefix is added to the beginning of a word and a suffix is added to the end of the word. We add these to what I like to call 'root' words or 'the body'. Some words have a head and body and some words have a body and a tail. Some words might have both!
A prefix or suffix will slightly change the word. It can change the 'tense' - Jump (root word/verb) Jumping (present tense) Jumped (past tense...remember what we say? 'It's in the...past!')
Today we are going to look at the suffix - 'ing'
If a grown up writes these words can you read them? - flying, climbing, jumping, stepping, working, bringing, stopping, wanting, getting, doing, saying, cooking, swimming, snowing, cheering, going.
Phonics focus of the day - 16th June, 2020 -
Today we are going to look at the suffix - 'ed' - Now this suffix can sound like a 't', 'id' or 'd' - listen carefully to how they sound at the end of different words.
If a grown up writes these words can you read them? - wanted, needed, jumped, hopped, liked, slipped, called, entered, seemed, burned, pulled, rolled, tested, hunted, waited, twisted, crushed.
Phonics focus of the day - 17th June, 2020 -
Today we are going to look again at the suffixes - 'ed' and 'ing' - This gets a little bit tricky because some of today's words will also have a split digraph in them. See if you can spot the split digraph in these words and draw the line underneath it.
If a grown up writes these words can you read them? - saved, joked, pasted, pasting, joking, saving, shared, chased, sharing, chasing, hoped, dancing (remember the softy rhyme) skating.