Phonics At Broad Town CE Primary School Sept 2017

So, what exactly is phonics? GPCs Blending Segmenting

What makes phonics tricky? 44 phonemes 120 graphemes 26 letters Digraphs: 2 letters that make 1 sound ch ng oa Trigraphs: 3 letters that make 1 sound igh air ear Alternative spellings: ai ay a-e

How is phonics taught? Phonics sessions are entirely made up from games, songs and actions and these sessions only last for 20 minutes per day. The children then have games and activities throughout the day based on their phonics lesson. We follow a programme called Letters and Sounds. There a 6 phases.

Phase 1 Phase 1 develops children’s abilities to listen to, make, explore and talk about sounds. Rhyme, alliteration, identifying sounds in the environment These skills should continue to be developed throughout KS1 and KS2.

Phase 2 GPCs need to be introduced in systematic way. Set 1 - s a t p Set 2 - i n m d Set 3 - g o c k Set 4 - ck e u r Set 5 - h b f ff l ll s ss Sounds, actions, forming the letter Blending and segmenting – don’t forget your robot arms!

Always use pure sounds. s f n m

Phase 2 contd… Reading tricky words

Phase 3 By the end of Phase 3 the children will know one way of writing down each of the 44 phonemes. Set 6 - j v w x Set 7 - y z zz qu Consonant digraphs - ch sh th ng Vowel digraphs (and trigraphs) ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er

Phase 3 contd… CVC refers to words with a consonant phoneme, a vowel phoneme and then a consonant phoneme - it is not referring to letters. Therefore hot, pig and bed are all CVC words. CCVC = trip, plug

Writing tricky words

Reading tricky words

Phase 4 The main challenge in this phase is to help children to blend and segment words with adjacent consonants e.g. truck, help. Children with speech and language difficulties can find Phase 4 very tricky. If children struggle to hear all the sounds in a word encourage them to think about the movements that their mouths are making. Looking in mirrors can help with this.

Phase 4 contd… Reading tricky words

Writing tricky words

Phase 5 Split digraphs a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e Some graphemes can be said in different ways e.g. the ch grapheme can be pronounced in each of these ways check, chef and school. some phonemes have more than one spelling Spelling rules eg adding – s and –es Compound words

Reading tricky words

Writing tricky words

Phase 6 Phase 6 reinforces much of the learning from Phase 5, helps children to develop greater automaticity in reading, and begins to explore spelling rules and conventions e.g. adding -ing and –ed as well as compound words.

Useful sites www.phonicsplay.co.uk https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachme nt_data/file/190599/Letters_and_Sounds_-_DFES-00281-2007.pdf (this is the Letters and Sounds document) the ‘pirate phonics’ app the Twinkl website has many good resources