Phonics Workshop Reception

Aims To share how we teach phonics at Torriano Primary To know the terminology associated with phonics To know the skills required to support your child at home To have some activities and ideas to support your child at home To share/talk through common issues faced by parents at home

At Torriano we… teach children to read and write using phonics. used cued articulation to support the learning of sounds. we follow the government recommended programme of Letters and Sounds. provide daily instruction.

Glossary Phoneme: the smallest unit of sound, eg ‘s’ or ‘ee’. Grapheme: the letter that represent a sound. Digraph: two or more letters making one phoneme. Blend: bring individual phonemes together to make a word, eg ‘c-a-t’ ‘cat’. Segment: break a word into individual phonemes, eg ‘hat’ ‘h-a-t’

Sight words These are irregular words that are not spelt phonetically. They should be learnt by sight.  

Phases Phase 1 (Nursery) Phase 2 (Reception) Phase 3 (Reception) Phase 4 (Reception/ Year 1) Phase 5 (Year 1) Phase 6 (Year 2)

Phase 1 Phase Learning Year group Phase 1 Developing speaking and listening skills. Differentiating between different sounds in the world around them. Awareness of patterns of language. Nursery, reception

Phase 2 Phase Learning Year group Phase 2 Continue to develop oral blending and segmenting skills. Learn phonemes and read and write simple captions. Reception The simple code.

Phase 3 Phase 3 Introduced to larger group of phonemes by end of phase 3. Reading and writing sentences including high frequency words. Reception, Year 1 The complex code.

Phase 4 Phase 4 Consolidating phase 3 learning. Practising reading two syllable words and writing words with adjacent consonants e.g. CVCC words Reception/Year 1

Phase 5 Phase 5 Learning alternative graphemes for previously taught phonemes. Introduction to split digraphs. Throughout year 1/ year 2 Ay hay, rain, face

Phonics for reading To read children have to read the individual phonemes and blend them together eg: s-a-t sat

Phonics for writing In writing children have to listen to the whole word and segment it to its individual phonemes Eg; sat s-a-t What was this child trying to write? Cerater

Phonics for writing They were trying to write cat but pronouncing the phonemes incorrectly. This makes it much harder to learn to read and write. Watch https://youtu.be/BqhXUW_v-1s to hear the phase 2 and phase 3 sounds.

Letters and Sounds Phonics session Children

Start each session with revising what we already know.

b Reveal the new sound – with lots of anticipation and excitement! Show cued articulation sign.

Picture sort – words that begin with /b/ and words that don’t begin with /b/

bun bat bag Putting our new sound into practise – reading words with /b/ in. When I press the button, say the sound. Then blend the word altogether. back

Fine Motor Skills Monkey bars Playdough Pincer competitions Lego ‘Fine motor’ means small movements that you makes with your body. In this instance, we are thinking about shoulder, elbow, wrist and finger movements that allow children to form letters. Monkey bars Playdough Pincer competitions Lego Climbing Messy play Drawing/ colouring in Using tools Peeling stickers

Handwriting At Torriano School we teach pre-cursive handwriting. You can use your Letter-Join log in to practise handwriting at home.

How can I help my child at home? Activity carousel: Sound books Word reading games Busy Things Writing using sound mats.

Common issues ‘My child wont sit down with the sound book’ my page, your page set a target offer an incentive timer children can tick- active learning turn it into a game

Common issues ‘My child doesn’t like to write’ sound mats and sight word maps careful with corrections choose their writing tool motivating topics for a purpose my turn/ your turn

Questions