{"id":1549,"date":"2016-12-01T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T09:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2016-12-01T09:56:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T09:56:03","slug":"the-aliens-have-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/2016\/12\/01\/the-aliens-have-landed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aliens Have Landed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have spotted, this week\u2019s Home Learning is to practise making alien words with your child. I\u2019m sure this seems rather odd when many children are still learning to write basic words however the Year One Phonics Screening Check is 50% alien (or Pseudo) words as well as the real words.<\/p>\n<p>Why teach alien words?<\/p>\n<p>Pupils who can read pseudo words should have the skills to decode almost any unfamiliar word. The Government\u2019s evaluation showed that\u00a0pupils generally enjoyed the pseudo words. Of course, it is important that children understand the difference between real words and pseudo words.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples to help you at home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/nonsense-words-1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1552\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1552\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/nonsense-words-1-199x300.png\" alt=\"nonsense-words\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/nonsense-words-1-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/nonsense-words-1-680x1024.png 680w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/nonsense-words-1.png 729w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/nonsense-words2-1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1553\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1553\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/nonsense-words2-1-206x300.png\" alt=\"nonsense-words2\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/nonsense-words2-1-206x300.png 206w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/nonsense-words2-1-703x1024.png 703w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/nonsense-words2-1.png 745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have spotted, this week\u2019s Home Learning is to practise making alien words with your child. I\u2019m sure this seems rather odd when many children are still learning to write basic words however the Year One Phonics Screening Check is 50% alien (or Pseudo) words as well as the real words. Why teach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":1553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}