Reading & Phonics Parental Workshop

In this school we use the Government’s Letters and Sounds Programme. Letters and Sounds is made up of 6 phases that are covered across Year R to Year 2.

Aims: What is phonics – Some key terminology. How do phonemes sound? How do we teach phonemes? What is the phonics check? Ideas to support. How does this apply to our reading?

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Key Terms ANY QUESTIONS? Phoneme - sounds that make up words. Graphemes – the letters that represent sounds. Segmenting and blending Digraph – a sound made up of two letters e.g. SH. Trigraph – a sound made up of three letters e.g. IGH. Abbreviations CVC, CCVC, VC words ANY QUESTIONS? Play the phonics sounds film at the end of the slide.

Why Phonics? The Government reviewed the teaching of reading in 2010 (The Rose Review) and found that systematic phonics was the most efficient way of helping children to access reading. Phonics works for most children. Understanding how words are built up creates a foundation for both reading and spelling that will help them throughout Primary School and beyond. Knowing even a few sounds can help children to access a huge number of words very quickly giving them a sense of purpose and enjoyment in reading. Children also learn sight words called Tricky Words that are not decodable.

Letters and Sounds In this school we use the Letters and Sounds systematic phonics programme. The programme is split into 6 phases. We are introducing a new method of delivering this called Song of Sounds which engages the children with music and actions to support their learning but follows the same systematic approach. Phonics must be taught daily for around 20 minutes. It can be organised by groups or in whole class teaching.

Phase 2 - Reception 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, ss Give parents the chance to come up with as many words as they can using just these sounds in 2 minutes.

Phase 3 - Reception Set 6: j, v, w, x Set 7: y, z, zz, qu Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er

Phase 4 - Reception This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases. Includes adjacent consonants e.g. Pl ay Highlight the sound buttons

Segmenting Breaking down words for spelling. Your child is able to hear the sounds in a word and break it down to spell. cat c a t

Segmenting Queen qu ee n

Blending Building words from phonemes to read. Your child can hear each sound and then blend them together to form a word. c a t cat

Blending Qu ee n queen

What does a Phonics lesson look like? Revisit/review Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far. Teach Teach new phoneme - eg air Practice Writing or sorting real or nonsense words. Air, chair, fair, hair, lair, pair, vair, sair, thair Apply Read captions: The goat had a long beard. The quack was right in his ear. We teach phonics for at least 20 minutes every day. Some children are receiving additional phonics input and are recapping earlier phases. We also do lots of independent phonics activity such as our name the alien role play and fun sound spotters, games and colouring sheets. Play Ruth Miskin link.

HOW DOES THIS APPLY TO GUIDED READING? We teach phonics for at least 20 minutes every day. Some children are receiving additional phonics input and are recapping earlier phases. We also do lots of independent phonics activity such as our name the alien role play and fun sound spotters, games and colouring sheets. Play Ruth Miskin link. WHAT DOES GUIDED READING LOOK LIKE?