ar digraph Mrs Pryce's Finger Phonics

Activity: illustrations of words containing the** ar** sound. Children predict the word then segment and blend the sounds, counting each sound on the fingers.
Using ‘Phoneme Fingers’ is a good way of helping children to develop reading and spelling strategies by breaking words down into individual sounds, and then building them up again (segmenting and blending). Counting sounds on the fingers and then seeing them in writing helps to bridge the gap between oral segmenting/blending and written representation. It also allows practice at using prediction as a reading strategy: early readers often meet unfamiliar words which cannot be deciphered easily using the child’s current phonetic knowledge. In these slides, the child decides what would make sense and then checks the available letters to see if the ‘guess’ (prediction) matches the letters.