Phonics at Rugby Free Primary School

A bit of technical vocabulary… Phoneme – spoken sounds – there are about 44 in the English language. Grapheme – how we write each of the spoken sounds e.g the spoken sounds ‘f’ is written using the graphemes f, ff, ph. Red words – words that cannot be sounded out e.g. I, said, was. Green words – words that can be sounded out using our phonics. Fred talk – (Fred is the frog) he can only talk in sounds e.g. sh-o-p. This video is available on the RMT website and Facebook page

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Speed Sound Cards Set 1 Set 2 and 3 Amazon - Read, Write, Inc Speed Sound Cards (Set 1 / 2 / 3)

cat shop Fred Say “hello” to Fred. “Fred can only talk in sounds”... He says “c-a-t.” Not cat. “We call this Fred Talk” shop

Sound Buttons play make night

Set 3 and Beyond

no go to I said the Red Words Children should be encouraged to identify the parts of a word which are phonetically regular and identify the parts of the word which are ‘tricky’ (cannot be sounded out).

Writing “Show me your”… ‘Fred Fingers’ dog

Phonics Screening Check – Year 1

Comprehension Children need to be able to understand the text they have read. To encourage this, we ask children lots of questions about the text. What is that character thinking? What do you think Will happen next? What is happening? Why do you think the character is feeling like this? What is the character saying?

What do these words mean? Phoneme The smallest single identifiable sound, e.g. the letters 'sh' represent just one sound, but 'sp' represents two (/s/ and /p/). Grapheme A letter or a group of letters representing one sound, e.g. t, l, sh, ch, igh. This is the way we write the sound. Green Words Children can ‘Fred Talk’ (sound out) these words. Tricky words Irregular words with different sounds. Cannot be sounded out. Segment Reading/writing each individual sound. Means the same as ‘sound out’ and ‘Fred Talk’. To segment the word cat we say c-a-t. Blend Ability to say phonemes (sounds) together c-a-t = cat. Digraph Two letters making one sound. E.g. th, ng, ow. Trigraph Three letters making one sound. E.g. air, igh. Split Digraph Two letters, split, making one sound. E.g. a_e = cake or i_e in slide. CVC Consonant-Vowel-Consonant. E.g. cat, dog, lot. CCVC Consonant-Consonant-Vowel-Consonant. E.g. frog, chop, slam.

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