Set 1 Sounds
First, your child will learn to read:
Set 1 Speed Sounds: these are sounds written with one letter:
Set 1 sounds written with two letters (‘special friends’).
Simple words containing these sounds, by sound-blending.
Read words in carefully levelled Red, Green and Purple Storybooks.
Set 1 Sounds
Each sound is linked to a picture hook and short rhyme to help the children learn and remember them.
Learning to Blend Simple Words
Your child will learn to read words containing Set 1 Speed Sounds by blending sounds together to create words. We call this ‘Fred Talk’.
m-a-t mat
c-a-t cat
g-o-t got
f-i-sh fish
s-p-o-t spot
b-e-s-t best
s-p-l-a-sh splash
The video below explains the process of teaching blending and Fred Talk.