Phonics Parents Meeting Monday 25th January at 2p.m.

Mrs Jankowska Nursery Teacher Who we are…. Mrs Jankowska Nursery Teacher Miss Ranson Reception Teacher Miss Andrews Year 1Teacher

What is phonics? A method of teaching children to read by matching sounds with letters. Phonics is recommended as the first strategy that children should be taught in helping them learn to read. It runs alongside other teaching methods such as guided reading and shared reading to help children develop all the vital reading skills and hopefully give them a real love of reading.

Vocabulary your child might use Segmenting and blending or chopping up Phoneme Grapheme Digraph Trigraph Split digraph Sound buttons

How do we teach Phonics at St Francis? Letters and Sounds Divided into 6 phases, each phases builds on the skills and knowledge of previous learning. Lesson format: Revise Teach Practise Apply

How do we teach Phonics at St Francis? Jolly phonics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djz82FBYiug&index=1&list=RDDjz82FBYiug Letters and sounds http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/ Abacus website https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Phonics Play website http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

What does Phonics consist of? Identifying sounds in spoken words Recognising the common spellings of each phoneme. Blending phonemes into words for reading. Segmenting words into phonemes for spelling.

Phoneme A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word. For example: Cat – has three phonemes Frog – has four phonemes How many does the word crab have?

Grapheme A grapheme means the letters that represent the phoneme. Children need to practise recognising the grapheme and saying the phoneme it represents A grapheme can be 1 letter, 2 letters or more!

Phoneme - Grapheme Phoneme is what you hear Grapheme is what you see A word always has the same number of graphemes and phonemes!

The 44 phonemes

Here is where it gets tricky… Phonemes represent graphemes Graphemes can consist of 1,2 or more letters A phoneme can be represented (spelt) in more than one way: cat, king, choir The same grapheme may represent more than one phoneme she, shed

Segmenting and blending This is the way we teach the children to sound out their words to enable them to read them. For example: Segmenting the word cat would be c – a – t Then blend them back together to say cat Children often use their hands to separate the sounds and clap to blend them back together, if you could also encourage this at home.

Digraph Once the children recognise the single phonemes we start with digraphs Digraphs are 2 letters that make 1 sound ng ss ch ai oa Just to name a couple, there are many more..

Trigraph Next we look at trigraphs A trigraph means 3 letters that make 1 sound igh dge ear air Just to name a couple, there are more..

Segmenting Activity  Can you say how many phonemes are each of these words: Shelf Dress Light String Chair

The answers… Shelf – 4 phonemes – sh – e – l – f Dress – 4 phonemes – d – r – e – ss Light – 3 phoemes – l – igh – t String - 5 phonemes – s – t – r – i – ng Chair – 2 phonemes – ch - air

Tricky words With every rule there are always exceptions these are tricky words. Words that are not phonically decodable: Was I The Do Said Have Just to name a couple, there are many more..

Sound buttons tail sail These are the lines and dots we teach the children to write underneath the words to help them to identify the different sounds in their words. tail sail

Split Digraph cake home A split digraph is vowel sound that a been split. A magic ‘e’. cake home

Phonics Screening Test in Year 1 Week commencing the 13th June Children are given 40 words to read 20 real words 20 alien words The pass mark in previous years has been 32. If the children fail the test in Year 1 they will retake it in Year 2

How you can help at home Play “I spy” Use websites for phonic games Encourage segmenting and blending Look at tricky words with your child