Phonics Meeting for Parents Thursday 6th October

How many phonemes can you hear in cat? Some Definitions A Phoneme This is the smallest unit of sound in a word. How many phonemes can you hear in cat?

These are the letters that represent the phoneme. A grapheme These are the letters that represent the phoneme. Children need to practise recognising the grapheme and saying the phoneme that it represents. The grapheme could be 1 letter, 2 letters or more! t ai igh

A word always has the same number of phonemes and graphemes! A phoneme you hear A grapheme you see A word always has the same number of phonemes and graphemes! All key words and definitions in the pack

Taught through a mixture of Letters and Sounds, Read Write Inc and Jolly phonics Phase 1 Acorn To distinguish between sounds and become familiar with rhyme, rhythm and alliteration. Phase 2 Acorn To introduce 19 grapheme-phoneme correspondences. Phase 3 Acorn/Beech To teach one grapheme for each of the 44 phonemes in order to spell simple regular words. Phase 4 Beech To read and spell words containing adjacent consonants. Phase 5 Beech To teach alternative pronunciations for graphemes and alternative spellings for phonemes.

Phase 2

Once children are good with single phonemes (phase 3) DIGRAPHS – 2 letters that make 1 sound ar ee oa ai TRIGRAPHS – 3 letters that make 1 sound igh ear

Phase 3- next 25 graphemes j, v, w, x y, z, zz, qu Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, oa, oo, oi Create phonics kits for parents to take home. Have 44 phoneme flash cards and phase 3 tricky words Show website- show where sounds are, so can hear them Play video clip using sounds- explain use at the start of most lessons- needs to be automatic.

Blending Recognising the letter sounds in a written word, for example c-u-p and merging or ‘blending’ them in the order in which they are written to pronounce the word ‘cup’

Segmenting ‘Chopping Up’ the word to spell it out The opposite of blending Identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word (e.g. h-i-m , s-t-or-k) and writing down letters for each sound (phoneme) to form the word him and stork

Segmenting Activity Using ‘sound buttons’ can you say how many phonemes are in each word. shelf dress sprint string With a friend add sound buttons do first one together sh e l f- use the graphemes to help you

Did you get it right? shelf = sh – e – l – f = 4 phonemes dress = d - r - e – ss = 4 phonemes sprint = s – p – r – i – n – t = 6 phonemes string = s – t – r – i – ng = 5 phonemes

Phonics screening check Tests whether children can segment and blend the phonemes http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html Show phase 4 phonics treasure game

Phase 4 Children continue to practise previously learned graphemes and phonemes and learn how to read and write: CVCC words: tent, damp, toast, chimp For example, in the word ‘toast’, t = consonant, oa = vowel, s = consonant, t = consonant. and CCVC words: swim, plum, sport, cream, spoon For example, in the word ‘cream’, c = consonant, r = consonant, ea = vowel, m = consonant. They will be learning more tricky words and continuing to read and write sentences together. Tricky words said, so, do, have, like, some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what

Can you use the phoneme frame to work out how many sounds there are in these words? pig p i g church ch ur coat curl thorn chick down shirt Parents have a go on their paper

Tricky Words Words that are not phonically de-codeable e.g. was, the, I, said By the end of year 1 must be able to read 100 high frequency/ tricky words. Have laminated copies in their packs List of computer games on the leaflet

Moving onto the next phase We assess whether children can read the sounds in real words and alien words.

Phase 5 Children will be able to read and spell words with adjacent consonants. Learn more graphemes for the same sound ay may I play a-e bake a cake

Jane Bakes a Cake. ai ay a_e   One rainy Saturday Jane baked a cake. She went all the way to the shops on her skates. When Jane got home she made a big cake. She put a slice on a plate and ate it. Then Jane went outside to her pet reindeer. She gave him a plate of hay, but he did not eat it. The reindeer did not eat any hay on Saturday, or Sunday, or Monday. Jane did not know what to do. On Tuesday, Jane took some of her cake on a plate to her reindeer. He ate it all up! Jane said he could have another plate of cake, but only if he ate all of his hay... so he did!

Watch one of our lessons!