Phonics Workshop for Parents/ Carers Wednesday 21st November 2018

By the end of the session you will… Know why phonics is so important. Be familiar with the technical language. Be familiar with the programme that is taught in school. Try the activities your child/children might do. Understand how to help your child.

Why do we need to teach phonics? Main strategy supporting word recognition for reading. Teaches children to connect letters of the alphabet to the sounds they make, blending them together from left to right to make a word. Supports children to identify those individual sounds within words in order to segment for spelling.

Phonemes and graphemes 26 letters of the alphabet. These letters and combinations of these letters make 44 sounds. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in words. Graphemes are the letters or groups of letters that represent these phonemes.

Blending and Segmenting Recognising the letters sounds in a written word, for example p-a-t and blending them in the order in which they are written to pronounce the word ‘pat’. Not puh-a-tuh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s Segmenting Segmenting (robot talk) the word to sp-e-ll it out The opposite of blending.

Technical Language Phoneme- single letter e.g. s, a, t, p. Digraph- Two letters that make one sound e.g. sh, ch, th, oa, ng. Double letters- (digraphs) e.g. ll, ff, ss. Trigraph- Three letters that make one sound e.g. igh, air, ear. Split digraph- A two letter grapheme that represent a vowel phoneme where the sounds are pushed apart by another letter. This digraph often used to be referred to as a magic ‘e’ e.g. cake, bite, phone, these, cube. It is used for the long vowel sounds. Tricky words- not easily decoded e.g. the, go.

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Letters and Sounds- 6 phases Phase 1-7 aspects General sound discrimination- environmental General sound discrimination- instrumental sounds General sound discrimination- body percussion Rhythm and rhyme Alliteration Voice sounds Oral blending and segmentation

Phase 2 Reception Covers common consonants and vowels - some single and double letters and the grapheme that represent them. Jolly phonics- actions and images. Blending and segmenting simple words- sound buttons. Reading and writing captions and simple sentences. Tricky words.

Phase 3 Reception Digraphs (sh, ch) Trigraphs (air, ear) Tricky words Blending and segmenting to write Reading captions and sentences Jolly phonics actions and images

Phase 4 Reception No new sounds Consolidate Phase 3 (toast, brown) 2 or more syllable words (tinfoil) Blend and segment adjacent consonants (cl, st, sp)

Phase 5 Year 1 Alternative spellings for the same sound e.g. stay, acorn, sail, same Alternative sounds for the same spelling e.g. tea /ee/, head /e/, break /ai/ Split digraphs- made, code, huge, these Magic ‘e’ Read 2 or 3 syllable decodable words- farmyard, laptop, important Phonics screening check (Summer term - Year 1)

Phase 6- throughout Year 2 Main aim is for children to become fluent readers and more accurate spellers. Learn how to use suffixes (end of word) e.g. jumped, happiness, climbing etc. To use pre-fixes (beginning of word) e.g. subtract, unhappy, bicycle

Phonics Websites Phonics play https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ Letters and Sounds http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/ Articulation of sounds (you tube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s Busy Things https://www.busythings.co.uk/families ‘Geraldine the giraffe’ (Mr T phonics) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7sW4j8p7k9D_qRRMUsGqyw Jolly phonics https://www.jollylearning.co.uk/jolly-phonics/