Reading

Please ensure that you hear your child read at least 3 times a week (but ideally every night) for 10 minutes or more. Ways you can help your children are:

• Help them decode the words by finding sounds in the word and blending them together;
• Identifying tricky words;
• Model reading sentences or passages with expression and intonation;
• Ask questions about what has been read;
• Discuss characters' feelings;
• Predict what might happen next using ideas from other stories;
• Summarise what has been read. 

Spelling

Practise weekly spellings sent home each Friday. These will be a mixture of words linked to our phonics unit and tricky words. Encourage children completing dictation sentences - you read the sentence, your child thinks about each word, sounds them out and writes them down. Then check which words  your child needs more support with. With tricky words - identify the tricky part and focus finding a way to remember this part. 

See Year 2 and 3 spelling lists below. 

Maths

• Practise counting on and back in ones, twos, fives and tens (extending to threes and fours);
• Partition larger numbers in different ways (you can use 1p, 10p and £1 coins to help with this). 
• Mentally add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers using known facts (number bonds, inverse etc.);
• Use coins to make different amounts;
• Talk about times of the day. 
• Use websites (see below) to practise comparing, ordering and estimating numbers. 

Spellings

Please remember to continue to practise your spellings. A termly overview will be provided at the start of every term. On Fridays, a reminder will be posted on WEDUC  to inform parents and carers on which spellings to focus on. Children will be assessed on these spellings on Thursdays.

Spellings can be learnt independently without the support of an adult so it is really important you take responsibility for setting the time you need in order to learn them.

Children can also practise their age appropriate common exception words on Spooky Spellings using the link provided. Children are not tested on these words.