<p>Learn phonograms with the Family Butterflies Jen ChattertonWord Wheel</p> <p>Learning phonograms will assist children to understand how sounds can be blended together, segmented and manipulated to form words. Blending sounds together or 'phonics' is a reading strategy to 'sound out' unfamiliar words when reading or to spell words when writing.</p> <p>Learning phonics early provides the basis for understanding the alphabetic sound principles and lays the foundation successful reading acquisition.<br /><br />Use a Family Word Wheel to help your child to: </p> <ul> <li>Understand the relationship between spoken sounds and written letter clusters</li> <li>Understand how sounds in words relate to their corresponding written symbols</li> <li>Identify individual sounds within words</li> <li>Read text accurately</li> <li>Decode text quickly</li> <li>Understand and interpret what they are reading</li> <li>Spell and write accurately and fluently</li> </ul> <p><strong>How to use a Family Word Wheel</strong><br /><br />Ensure you have fun when using your word wheel. Rotate the circles and see what words you can make. Decide if you have created a real or a nonsense word. Find all the real words and write these into a ‘fun word book’, chart or word folder.</p> <p>Play with the nonsense words and make silly rhymes with them. Phonics instruction is best taught through play. Making rhymes, poems and other word play activities and playing with sounds and