Phonics Workshop Thursday 12th October 2017

What is phonics? Children have a 20 minute daily discrete phonics sessions. Children are taught to read by breaking down words into separate sounds or ‘phonemes’. They are then taught how to blend these sounds together to read the whole word. There are 44 different sounds.

Letters (graphemes) are used to represent sounds (phonemes) c-a-t

You can use 1, 2, or more letters to represent a sound sun snow sight sleigh

There are different ways of spelling the same sound There are different ways of spelling the same sound. train play they cake weigh not knight gnat funny

The same spelling can be used for different sounds The same spelling can be used for different sounds. head great cheap cough ghost cow blow bed he

Phase One Distinguising between sounds Hearing initial sounds in words Phase 1; usually before starting school and beginning of FS2 awareness of rhyme, alliteration, speaking clearly and enjoying sharing stories. Distinguising between sounds Hearing initial sounds in words Matching sounds to words Sorting objects which have the same/different sounds Segmenting words aurally Blending words aurally Alliteration games Rhyming strings Listening ears, binoculars, instruments, rhyming soup, feely bags, robot arms, matching games

Phase Two s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss Phase 2; During FS2 (Reception) awareness of a small number of grapheme/phoneme correspondences and using these to blend and segment. Teach individual letter sounds (phonemes) and written representation (graphemes) Matching written letters to sounds Continuing rhyming words. Learning letter formation Segment CVC words to write Blend CVC words to read. Teach tricky words that cannot be sounded out. Write simple sentences. s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss Show phonics cards Treasure and trash, Obb and Bob, Magic river, pass the sound card round and round, pictures of phonics activities

Phase 3 Phase 3; During FS2To teach children one grapheme for each of the 44 phonemes in order to read and spell simple regular words. Teach digraphs/trigraphs Teach letter names Teach tricky words and read and write High Frequency Words from Memory Writing sentences with capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. Recognising digraphs/trigraphs in words when reading Writing graphemes from memory j v w x y z zz qu ch sh th ng ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er

Becoming more practised in making correct spelling choices Phase 4; During FS2 To teach children to read and spell words containing adjacent consonants. Phase 5; During Year 1. Teaching children to recognise and use alternative ways of pronouncing the graphemes and spelling the phonemes already taught. Phase 6; During Year 2. Becoming more practised in making correct spelling choices moving from learning to read to reading to learn.

Planning and Teaching. 4 part session. Revise and Review, Teach, Practise, Apply. 5 minutes each part. Four part lesson

Emergent writing Mark making

Letter Strings

Segmenting Use robot arms to break up words, letter mats to find phonemes, write the sounds we hear. V c i o v m V ct is on v mt The cat is on the mat The larj cat is sleeping on the mat with the fluffee dog.

Initial writing

Next two stages

ELG writing

Initial Reading Recognising intial phonemes Reading tricky words Blending Recognising digraphs/trigraphs in words Understanding text they have read Phoneme cards, phoneme fans, tricky word flash cards

Blending pot trip Shop smash

Phase 2 book

What else is happening? Have fun at home! Don’t worry! Reading books Apps – Meet the Alphablocks! Free app Mr Thorne Does Phonics - free Teach Your Monster to Read: First Steps is a £2.99 app for iPad Twinkl Phonics suite - £4.99 has all phases Jolly Phonics Letter Sounds also costs £4.99, but is available for the iPhone as well as Apple's tablet. Ladybird: I'm Ready for Phonics app £1.99 http://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/ free website! http://www.familylearning.org.uk/phonics_games.html http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/Phase2Menu.htm

Thank you for coming.