To help parents to continue their children’s education at home, we have given access to the Monster Phonics Programme.
Monster Phonics is easy to teach and fun. Here is a guide to help you start learning.
What is Phonics?
The 26 letters of the alphabet and combinations of these letters make 44 speech sounds in English.
The 44 sounds (phonemes) are spelt by 144 different letter combinations (graphemes). For example, the sound O is spelt 6 different ways: o (no), o-e (home), oa (boat), ow (snow), oe (toe) and ou (though).
Traditional ways of learning to spell can be time-consuming and for some children they are ineffective.
What is Monster Phonics?
Monster Phonics makes learning to read and spell through phonics easier, by categorising the 44 sounds into 10 categories and each of these 10 categories are represented by a Monster. Each Monster is a different colour, and this colour represents that way of spelling the sound. This makes learning to read and spell much easier and more fun.
Why does Monster Phonics improve learning?
The child learns through the assignment of colour and the linkage of the sound, as well as seeing the colour, creating more ways of remembering the spelling.
The games, songs and activities within the programme continuously reflect this way of learning, so that structure is constantly seen, heard and experienced by your child. This consistency is critical in ensuring that a complicated language is learnt in the most simplistic way. Read more about how Monster Phonics works.
High-frequency words are learnt much faster with Monster Phonics. These words make up 65% of the words used in reading
- Once colour-coded, high-frequency words can be taught in easy to learn sets of
similar words. This significantly improves spelling.
2. With colour-coding non-decodable words become decodable. Children are no longer told that words like ‘they’ and ‘my’ are tricky as they can be decoded.
Monster Phonics Home Learning
We have created a new home learning sectin to help teach your children at this time. To login, click on Login in the Blue menu bar. Once logged go to the Home Learning Page and select the group.
Monster Phonics makes learning fun and more memorable. Rather than relying on rote learning, Monster Phonics uses colour-coding to promote understanding, which leads to children becoming confident, independent learners. Confidence builds their passion for school and for life.
Free resources
Here are some fun activities, worksheets and games to help you to develop phonics knowledge.
Activities
https://monsterphonics.com/free-phonics-worksheets/
Ideas for learning spellings
https://monsterphonics.com/free-resources/fun-ways-to-help-children-learn-phonics-spelling/
Games
https://monsterphonics.com/games/
Flashcards
https://monsterphonics.com/flashcards-2/
Information about phonics
https://monsterphonics.com/how-it-works/letters-and-sounds/
https://monsterphonics.com/how-it-works/ks1-spelling-curriculum/
https://monsterphonics.com/the-phonics-screening-check/
The Monster Phonics Reading Scheme
https://monsterphonics.com/books/
Monster Phonics books are matched to the phonics that is taught in school. The stories help children to practise what they have learned phonetically and also instil a love of reading. Research shows that reading for enjoyment is an important predictor for children’s educational success. We recommend that reading is an integral part of your daily routine. If on any one day you have time for nothing else… then read, read, read!
