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Letters and Sounds Letters and Sounds is a six-phase teaching programme designed to help teach children how the alphabet works for reading and spelling. It was published in April 2007. Discrete four 20 minute sessions each week, with the fifth day dedicated to assessment and consolidation.

Terminology Phoneme - sound you hear Grapheme - letter/letters written to represent the sound Let’s hear the regular phonemes that go with the letters! articulation of phonemes fonics soundwall

Daily Lesson Outline

Phase 1 Nursery Speaking and listening activities Environmental sounds as well as talking and singing Distinguish between sounds Rhyme and rhythm Story telling, singing songs, listen to rhymes, role play, drama, dance

Phase 2 Reception Increased ability to discriminate between sounds Recognise initial sounds at the beginning of words Increased awareness of sounds, letters, and words Letter-sound correspondence

Phase 3 Reception Children learn the alphabet – letter names in and out of sequence Children learn to recognise 20 graphemes, (i.e. the letter / letters that make the sound). Children learn to write the graphemes – these include digraphs and trigraphs (sounds made from 2 and 3 letters) May need to consolidate in Year 1

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Segmenting for Spelling When we start to spell using phonics, we ‘chop up’ the word to identify the phoneme sounds – called segmenting.

Segmenting the sounds using phoneme frames s w ee t r ai n c r u n ch

Phase 4 Reception Read and spell words containing adjacent consonants Blending and segmenting longer words Applying skills in reading and writing CVCC words eg. Bank, duck, sand Compound and polysyllabic words treetop, freshness

Phase 4 sounds Uses phase 2 & 3 Phonemes and graphemes. No new sounds. The purpose of this phase is to consolidate children’s knowledge of graphemes in reading, and spelling words containing adjacent consonants. Also it aims to improve their knowledge of polysyllabic and compound words.

Grammar- Sentence Substitution

Phase 5 - Year 1 For children to broaden their knowledge of graphemes and phonemes for use in reading and spelling. They will learn new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for those already taught. Learn about vowel digraphs (used to be called ‘magic e!’). Practise using 2 and 3 syllable words. Usually taught in Year 1, but revisited in Year 2. The purpose of this phase is for children to broaden their knowledge of graphemes and phonemes for use in reading and spelling. They will learn new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these and graphemes they already know, where relevant. Some of the alternatives will already have been encountered in the high-frequency words that have been taught. Children become quicker at recognising graphemes of more than one letter in words and at blending the phonemes they represent. When spelling words they will learn to choose the appropriate graphemes to represent phonemes and begin to build word-specific knowledge of the spellings of words.

Split vowel digraphs give long vowel sounds.

Common Exception words

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Phase 6 –Year 2 Less common spelling patterns – silent letters and alternative pronunciations. Spelling past tenses – both regular and irregular Spelling suffixes - __ed, __ing, __s and __es, __ies, __ful, __er, __est, __ly, __ment, __ness, __y Spelling long words (How suffixes and prefixes change words) Syllables Continue to learn the common exception and high frequency words.

Work on word families

Ways to support your child at home. Choose books that your child is genuinely interested in. Pick a quiet and appropriate time to read. Talk about the story. Identify tricky words first before you start reading. Give them time to decipher the words. Be patient! Don’t forget to give them positive praise for their effort! This may sound obvious, but asking a child to read about robots if they love trains isn't going to have the same impact! 2. Pick a quiet and appropriate time to read.Creating a relaxed environment can really help to ease the pressure some children face when asked to practice their reading. Talk about the storyIt is important to make reading more than just about 'practicing reading'. Remember that books are stories! Talk about what is happening in the story 'what do you think this book is going to be about?' 'What do you think will happen next?' are great questions to engage your child in the storybook. Identify tricky words first before you start readingOnce you start to read regularly you will learn the words that they will find tricky depending on their level. Reading the trickier words together before you start reading will give your child confidence when they see that word during the story. Give them time to decipher the wordsGiving your child time to decipher the words and not rushing them will increase their confidence. It is important for children to learn the process of how to read words. That is how phonics works. Ask them to take their time, sound it out and blend it back together. *Be patient here! It is not uncommon for children to correctly read a word and then 30 seconds later be unable to read it. Go through the process from the beginning, sound it out, blend it together. In time they will recognise high frequency words and will not need to go through that process any more.

fonics game website A new website with lots of games and activities fonics game website A new website with lots of games and activities. It does cost £7.99 but this is a one off payment and will unlock all the phases. Great for revision of sounds – this part is free. www.phonicsplay.co.uk We also use this a lot in school. Has some free games but also has a subscription part with a lot more games and activities. £12.00 per year. http://www.lexiacore5.com/ A reading support programme that runs from reception right through to Year 6. Teachers can track progress in school and award certificates.

Revise daily with reading

Sounds board games

Magnetic Letters Upper and Lower case recognition. Sequencing activities. Swap the starting letter. Swap the vowel. Spelling and reading. Find something beginning with this sound.

Classroom visit 20mins in Year 1 or 2. Range of activities taking place to show some of the typical things we do, (but not usually all at the same time!) and things that you could also do at home. Try using the sounds that are being learnt in school each week to support their spelling, reading and writing.

Feedback S – small chunks of time When practising phonics at home: try to ‘SQUIRT’, S – small chunks of time QU – Quick pace, only 5-10 min to maintain interest. I – interactive activities. Don’t let them get bored. R – revisit earlier learning. T – Target the sounds and words that your child is learning or having difficulty with, but put in with well known sounds to support confidence.

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