Year One Phonics Stay and Play January 2019

What is Phonics? Children are taught to: Recognise the sounds that each individual letter makes Identify the sounds that different combinations of letters make such as ‘sh’ or ‘oo’ Blend these sounds together from left to right to make a word. Children can then use this knowledge to ‘de-code’ new words that they hear or see such as ‘sh i p’

Terminology Phoneme – this is a discreet unit of sound (a, f, p) Digraph – where two letters make one sound (er, sh, ee) Trigraph – where three letters make one sound (igh, ear) Grapheme – the written form of the sound Robot or Fred Talk – this is when words are broken down into each discreet sound. Phoneme Fingers – This is when the phonemes are counted and the matching number of fingers are held up. Sound buttons or Sausages and Beans – this is when dots and dashes are marked under a word to show knowledge of the sounds.

How is Phonics taught? Letters and Sounds Programme 20 minutes daily Whole class / small group / 1:1 intervention Class Teacher / Learning Support Assistant

How is Phonics taught? The short lessons are fast paced, interactive and consist of four parts. Revisit – the sounds from previous learning. Teach – a new sound Practise – games incorporating these sounds Apply – read or write a caption using one or more of known high frequency words and words containing the new sounds.

How many phases are there in Phonics? Phase One – listening to and distinguishing sounds in their environment Phase Two – learning 23 sounds, beginning to segment and blend Phase Three – learning 25 sounds, developing phonetically plausible attempts Phase Four – consolidation of above sounds Phase Five – learning 19 sounds with alternative graphemes and split digraphs Phonics Screening Check June 2019

ai

pain

aim

wait

Phase 5

a_e

cake

snake

Phonics learning at home Bug Club Phonics Play Education City ICT Games BBC Bitesize Board Games Snap Pairs Treasure Hunt Splat Playdough Bubbles Shaving foam Sand Paint

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