CHEAM PARK FARM PRIMARY ACADEMY Welcome to our Phonics workshop Whilst you are waiting please complete the phonics quiz on the table

What am I going to gt out of this???? Agenda Phonics in Nursery Teaching phonics in Reception- different phases How we teach phonics Blending and segmenting Sound buttons Sounds activities- lets have a play Helping at home What am I going to gt out of this????

How did we do with the quiz?

How do children learn to read? Knowledge of story language Use of phonics Knowledge of how the word looks Use of pictures - these can enhance, explain, give clues or even replace the text 5 a day

What do we need to do to help children learn to read? Focus on develping knowledge of story language Read to our children as much as possible Discuss TV shows in the context of story language Get our children to practise speaking in a posh voice Re- reading texts until they are in our memories

What do we need to do to help children learn to read? Use of Phonics Phonics is taught to children throughout the school every day To teach and learn phonics effectively the pure sound must be used

What is Phonics? The individual sounds that make up each letter or group of letters. Phase 2- single letters to make 1 sound Phase 3- 2 or 3 letters together to make 1 sound Children need to associate the sound they are making when talking with the letter they can see.

Phonics is taught to children throughout the school every day To teach and learn phonics effectively the pure sound must be used

Letters and Sounds 2007 Primary strategy programme to teach phonics from nursery to Year 2 Set out in phases 1 – 6 with recommendations about when each phase should be taught Whole school follows this programme

Phase 1- Nursery Children entering our reception classes have usually been working within phase 1, providing opportunities to enrich their language across all the areas of learning. Phase 1 focuses on a language-rich provision with children being exposed to environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and oral blending and segmenting.

Phase 2- Early reception The purpose of phase 2 is to move from oral blending and segmenting, where children are hearing adults modelling oral blending, to blending and segmenting with letters. To teach at least 19 letters (we focus on 4 a week) By the end of the phase many children should be able to read and spell some VC (vowel, consonant) and CVC words (consonant, vowel, consonant).

Phase 3- later reception The purpose of phase 3 is to teach another 25 graphemes- the sound that letters make together e.g. ‘oa’. Continue blending and segmenting, applying to reading and writing. Introduce further tricky words. Learn letter names.

Phase 4- later reception To consolidate the children’s knowledge of graphemes in reading and spelling.

Different ways we teach phonics Phonics is taught each day using a variety of supporting aids: following the letters and sounds programme using the Jolly Phonics songs/pictures/ actions. Big cat Espresso phonics videos (Scrap and Polly)

So are you ready to give it a go?

Blending and segmenting We blend sounds to create words as we are speaking to help us read by pushing them together c – a – t is the word cat When reading and writing we segment the words by sounding out each phoneme breaking the word up cat is c – a - t

Sound buttons We encourage children to identify the sounds in a word by using a ‘sound button’ to represent each one. Children ‘press the button’ for each individual sound.

Let’s apply our sound buttons! Phase 2 words

cat

cat

mop

mop

sock

sock

Let’s apply our sound buttons! Phase 3 words (don’t forget some sounds may be 2 letters together!)

chip

chip

goat

goat

rain

rain

zom churt PSEUDO/ALIEN WORDS Alongside real words we also encourage children to identify sounds in pseudo or alien words. It is useful for identifying which children are so secure in their sounds knowledge that they can identify and read them in any word.

Sounds activities Let’s look at the resources

Helping at home Revising the sounds learnt each week- refer to sound sheet sent home in home learning folder Play sound activities: eye spy, listening hunt, sound hunt, lotto games, create sound pots. Home-made activities that you make with your child are fantastic! Shopping list to take home.

Any Questions?