Reception Reading Meeting Welcome

Phonics 5 Basic Skills 1. Learning the letter sounds 2. Letter formation 3. Blending and segmenting words 4. Identifying sounds in words 5. Tricky words 5 Basic Skills There are 5 basic skills covered in Jolly Phonics: Learning the letter sounds. Learning letter formation. Blending. Identifying sounds in words. Tricky words. (You might like to explain what these mean in more detail). The first four skills are taught every day from the beginning. ‘Tricky words’ are introduced after about 6 weeks. By then most of the children: can work out simple regular words for reading and writing are ready to learn the more difficult tricky words.

How you can help at home

Talking and listening. Reading with and to your child Playing listening games such as I spy and oral blending robot talk c-a-t Singing songs and rhymes Lower case letters not CAPITAL LETTERS

Please encourage your child to practise their sounds and actions in their phonics folder. Each week they will receive 4 new sounds.

Phonemes The smallest unit of sound in a word. There are 44 phonemes that we teach. Important to say shortest sound – c not cuh

(two letters making one sound) Digraphs (two letters making one sound) sh ch th ng ai ee oa oo ar or ur ow oi er Digraphs In English there are 44 sounds and only 26 letters. This means that some sounds have to be written with two letters. These sounds are called digraphs. The ones on screen are the first to be taught to the children. Activity Point to each digraph and ask everyone to call out the sound. You can provide a word for each digraph yourself, or ask for suggestions. For example: /ai/ rain /oa/ goat /ie/ tie /ee/ sheep /or/ torn

Grapheme Letters representing a phoneme e.g. c ai igh Children need to practise recognising the grapheme and saying the phoneme that it represents.

s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss 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

BLENDING Recognising the letter sounds in a written word, for example c-u-p and putting 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 Robot Talking e.g c-a-t

Once children are good with single phonemes… DIGRAPHS – 2 letters that make 1 sound ll ss zz oa ai TRIGRAPHS – 3 letters that make 1 sound igh air

TRICKY WORDS Words that are not phonically de-codeable e.g. was, the, I Some are ‘tricky’ to start with but will become decodeable once we have learned the harder phonemes e.g. out Will be sent home in a folder to practise and will be checked in school each week.

Reading Books Start with wordless texts and picture cards. Talk about what is happening in the pictures, guess what will happen next etc Move onto mainly phonetic texts that children can sound out or predictable texts. Change books once a week on a Monday. Bring reading book bag to school every day. Please sign or make a comment in reading record each time you listen to them read(at least three times a week).

Tricky Word Sheets Tricky words for children to learn. Parents tick them when they know them each week. Teacher’s check and tick them off on a Monday. If they confidently know all of the sheet they get the next sheet.

Where can I find resources to help? Internet games - www.phonicsplay.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies Online books- www.oxfordowl.co.uk School Website - www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk Check out our Ducklings Class Pages

Other Issues Library – any children’s book is a good book! Children will go to the school library once a week. Rhyme and Story Time in the hall every Monday 9.00-9.30am- younger siblings welcome. Refreshments served. Phonics Support always available after school with Mrs Ham

Thank you very much for coming. Any questions? Thank you very much for coming.