Phonics Workshop for Parents Bewick Bridge Community Primary School

Aims for This Session To understand what phonics is and how it is taught at Bewick Bridge To understand how you can help your child at home with reading To know what the phonics screening test is

Aims for This Session To understand what phonics is and how it is taught at Bewick Bridge To understand how you can help your child at home with reading To know what the phonics screening test is

Being a Successful Reader Decoding - blending the sounds in words to read them Comprehension - understanding what the word means within the context it appears Two main skills

Why Teach Phonics? Main strategy supporting word recognition Teaches children to connect letters of the alphabet to the sounds they make Supports children in identifying those individual sounds (phonemes) within words and segmenting them for spelling

Phonics at Bewick Bridge In EYFS and KS1, children are engaged in learning phonics everyday for 20 minutes, following a cycle of: Revisit, in which previous learning is revised Teach, in which a new sound/ letter pattern is taught (show them and explain) Practice reading and/ or spelling words with the new letter Apply - read or write a caption with the teacher including words containing the new sound The teaching of phonics at Bewick Bridge follows the Letters and Sounds programme of study.

Phonemes and Graphemes Phoneme: the smallest unit of sound in words Grapheme: the written symbol that represents a sound Phonemes can be represented by graphemes of one, two or three letters e.g. t sh igh

Blending Recognising the letter sounds in a written word, for example c-a-t, and blending them to pronounce the word

Segmenting ‘Chopping Up’ the word to spell it out The opposite of blending

Activity Try these sounds with the person next to you: sh i ai igh r

Tricky Words These are words that have to be taught through repeated revision. The children need to learn these by sight as they cannot be read using phonics.

Tricky Words or Decodable Words? sit the frog they log to he do Why? Justify your answer

Aims for This Session To understand what phonics is and how it is taught at Bewick Bridge To understand how you can help your child at home with reading To know what the phonics screening test is

The books that might come home Just sounds Fully decodable Decode and develop - 70% decodable and 30% tricky or high frequency words Richer reading - not written to be decodable

The Importance of Reading at Home Reading to children at age 5 every day has a significant positive effect on their reading skills and cognitive skills later in life. Reading to children 3-5 days per week (compared to 2 or less) has the same effect on the child’s reading skills at age 5 as being six months older. Reading to them 6-7 days per week has the same effect as being almost 12 months older. By the univeristy of Melbourne http://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/about/research/readtoyoungchild.pdf

Phonics Support at Home http://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com. There is no charge for this site, though you need to register your details to sign up. http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/InteractiveResources.htm - there are phonics games for different phases. You could direct parents to particular phases. Geraldine`s phonics You Tube videos - (Google ‘Geraldine the giraffe’) Mr Thorne's phonics -www.mrthorne.com http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html - a good selection of games, including Forest Phonics (www.ictgames.com/forestphonics) and Look cover write check (www.ictgames.com/lcwc) www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies - You can listen to stories and play games on this site. It links to the BBC television channel Cbeebies. The Alphablocks games are good for learning how to say and spell words. http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=40 – the letters and sounds; words and spelling; and learning to read sections may also be useful. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-school/for-school/oxford-owl-ebook-collection - you need to register for an account, but it is free. And then you can search by Oxford reading tree book level or Letters and Sounds Phase - there are some good games/ activities with the books too. www.letters-and-sounds.com http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/construct/index.html Visit Oxford Owl for Home, a website packed with a range of free resources and advice on how to support your child throughout their time at primary school recommended books, how to support the learning of phonics, what they will be learning at school and how, games to play at home to support the development of reading skills and more, all organised into age ranges so you can easily find the support you are looking for a free ebook library that can be read at home Show parents how to find this information on school website

Aims for This Session To understand what phonics is and how it is taught at Bewick Bridge To understand how you can help your child at home with reading To know what the phonics screening test is

Phonics Screening Check The phonics screening check is used to find out whether pupils have learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate standard. It will identify pupils who need extra help to improve their decoding skills. The check consists of 20 real words and 20 fake words that a pupil reads aloud to the teacher. All pupils who have reached the end of year 1 must take the check. Pupils in year 2 must also take the check if they: didn’t meet the required standard in year 1 haven’t taken it before If a pupil didn’t take the check in year 1 or year 2, or if they still did not meet the standard of the check in year 2, they don’t need to be considered for the check in future years. However, these pupils will continue to receive support in phonics.

Phonics Screening Check