Phonics workshop for parents

Aims: •To increase parent’s/carer’s confidence and understanding about the teaching of phonics. •To become more aware of how children learn phonics in school. •To share ways that support can be offered at home that reflect the ways we teach in school.

Today’s program Part1: What is the importance of phonics? Phases in phonics teaching. Part 2: Learning time! (30 mins) You will learn new sounds and make some resources to take home. Don’t worry if you don’t get it all today! Part 3: A phonics lesson (15 mins)

Why teach phonics? Research shows that when phonics is taught in a structured way – starting with the easiest sounds and progressing through to the most complex – it is the most effective way of teaching young children to read. It is particularly helpful for children aged 5 to 7. Almost all children who receive good teaching of phonics will learn the skills they need to tackle new words. They can then go on to read any kind of text fluently and confidently, and read for enjoyment. Taken from the Government ‘Learning to read through phonics’. The monkee iz chaizing the wite catupila.

Some Definitions: Phoneme: Smallest sound that you can hear in a word. Grapheme: Letter/letters representing a sound. S, sh, Oral blending: Hearing a series of spoken sounds and merging them together to make a spoken word – no text is used. For example, when a teacher calls out ‘b-u-s’, the children say ‘bus’. Blending: Recognising the letter sounds in a written word. C-a-t : cat Segmenting: Identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word Some sounds are represented by a single letter and others are represented by 2 or 3 letters.

Phases in teaching phonics: There are 6 phases in teaching phonics from nursery to year 2. Phase 1: Hearing environmental sounds and initial sounds of words. Rhymes and rythems. Phase 2: Blend and segment simple CVC words using the first 19 sounds. Reception Phase 3: Children learn to blend more words and further 25 sounds. Ch, sh, th , ng etc Phase 4: Children will learn to segment ad blend ccvc and cvcc words such as plum, bulm etc. Phase 5: Children will learn different ways to represent one sound. e.g, ay, ai and a-e Phase 6: Recognising irregular and more complex words- year 2

You will now learn how to say each sound as well as write each sound by making cards: I say: s,a,t,p,i,n,m,d,g,o,c,k,ck,e,r,u,h,b,f,ff,l,ll,s,ss you say: I write, You write:

A phonics lesson: Revisit sounds Hear the sound: ai, ai Oral blending: r-ai-n, p-ai-n ch-ai-n, h-ai-f. Blending for reading: (use cards) Segmenting for writing:

How can I help my child at home: Let us look at the resources which you could take home and use in order to support your child at home. 1.Common exception and phase 2/3 sound matt to use at home. Phonics cards 2.to make words. (you will bring these cards back for the next workshop). 3.List of useful websites.

Next time We will look at phase 5 phonics in more detail. We will learn how to read words with split diagraphs. We will look at how one sound can be written in 2 or 3 different ways. Rain play made Fight time Please bring your cards!