PHONICS WORKSHOP TUESDAY 20 TH OCTOBER 2015

The Alphabet

Definitions Phoneme – The smallest unit of sound in a word. Grapheme – What we write to represent a sound/phoneme – this can be one, two or three letters. GPC - This is short for Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence. Knowing a GPC means being able to match a phoneme to a grapheme and vice versa.

Definitions Oral Blending - Hearing a series of spoken sounds and merging (blending) them together to make a spoken word. Blending - Recognising the letter sounds in a written word, for example c-u-p, and blending them in the correct order.

Definitions Oral Segmenting - This is the act hearing a whole word and then splitting it up into the phonemes that make it. Segmenting - This involves hearing a word, splitting it up into the phonemes that make it, using knowledge of GPCs to work out which graphemes represent those phonemes and then writing those graphemes down in the right order. This is the basis of spelling.

Definitions Diagraph – Two letters that make one sound. Trigraph – Three letters that make one sound. Split Diagraph – Diagraph that has a letter in the middle for example a_e as in make.

Phase 3 These are the graphemes the children learn in phase 3. chshthngaiee ighoaooarorur owoiearairure

Phase 5 These are the graphemes the children learn in phase 5. ayouieeaoyirue ewawwhphewoeau ey a_ e e_ e i_e o_ e u_ e

Write down as many words as you can in one minute. They will all need to contain the phoneme… Just a minute

Pseudo Words

storkaibs

Pseudo Words blawtoun ithroit

Pseudo Words

Phonics Screening

Thank you Thank you for joining us for this phonics workshop. We hope you had fun and learnt something new! Please complete the evaluation form to let us know if this was useful.