Phonics Chawson First School October 2015

Aims of this session to become familiar with the phonics teaching at school Some ideas on how you can support your child at home

Foundation Stage Profile The Foundation Stage Profile (FSP) is split up into 7 prime areas: Communication and Language(CL) Physical Development (PD) Personal, Social and Emotional (PSE) Literacy (L) Mathematics (M) Understanding of the World (UTW) Expressive arts and design (EAD)

Letters and Sounds There are 6 phases which span Reception to end of Year 2. By then most children will be confident readers and writers. There will be daily whole class activities in Reception alongside small group work

Letters and Sounds- Phase 1 Phase 1 is for all children including those in pre school settings. It aims to enable children to Listen carefully Develop their vocabulary Speak confidently to adults and other children Hear and separate different letter sounds e.g. /c/ and /g/ Sound out letters in words in the right order

Key Skills Oral blending Segmenting Hearing a series of spoken sounds (phonemes) and merging them together to make a spoken word. No text is used. Segmenting Identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word.

Often the children will use robot arms too. Sound talk Many of the children will have used sound talk in Pre school and it is still very important. Often the children will use robot arms too. All oral ! No letters !

We also use ‘sound buttons’ Sound talk Let’s use our ‘Robot arms’ to segment and blend the sounds in some words! We also use ‘sound buttons’ d/o/g sh/e/ll t/or/ch

We play lots to games to practice segmenting and blending! We play I spy... ‘I spy a p-e-g – peg’ ‘I spy a c-u-p – cup’ ‘Where’s your other s-o-ck – sock?’ We also play ‘Cross the river’. Let’s have a go!

Phase 2 and beyond Teaching is systematic and multisensory. Phase 1 activities are life long skills and continue alongside other phases.

Phase 2 and beyond Daily 4 part discrete phonics session Revisit- practise previously learned letters and oral blending and segmenting Teach- new graphemes, blending and segmenting and tricky words Practise- reading and spelling words Apply- read or write a caption

In Year R children will learn which letter/letters make which sound. Jolly phonics is used to give actions. They will bring home a sheet each time they learn a new phoneme and grapheme. At the end of Year R children will have learnt one way of writing each sound.

Remember to use the correct sound... Inky Mouse helps us with our phonics and teaches us how to say the sounds correctly! Let’s have a go!

Important to learn that letters have names as well as sounds!

Important words that your children will be using phoneme - ‘sound’ grapheme – the way you write the sound digraph- A combination of two graphemes (letters) representing one phoneme (sound) e.g. sh/ch trigraph- a combination of three letters representing one phoneme e.g. igh/ear segment – split the word into its sounds to spell it blend – say all the sounds in a word quickly to read the word

Ideas to help at home magnetic letters whiteboards write (use ‘small’ letters) with your child read with your child

Tricky words Words that have bits that you can not sound out! I no the said was have You could help your child learn to read them by making up a matching pairs game or playing tricky word bingo!

Using phonics to read Reading books with no words Phonic home readers Use Oxford Reading Tree alongside phonic home readers Reading record cards Change books twice a week

Using phonics to read All children will start by bringing home a book with no words Encourage your child to talk about the characters, use the pictures for clues and make up their own stories Children will participate in a weekly guided reading activity

Let’s write a sentence together! Using phonics to write Modelled writing each day A guided writing or ‘Big Write’ session each week Cursive handwriting- starting each letter from the line Handwriting sessions Let’s write a sentence together!

Continue to support your child by finding time to talk together listening for sounds singing and making music hearing rhyming words reading books learning nursery rhymes and sharing poems together

How do we assess? - We are using the document ‘DEVELOPMENT MATTERS’. -We will monitor progress against these age bands:30-50mths 40-60mths and then the ELG within this document. - During the year we will monitor, through; observations of children, completing independent work in discrete phonics sessions, completing work during a focused session and in freely chosen activities. - In learning journeys you will be able to see your child’s progress.

Websites that you might find useful http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ http://www.sebastianswan.org.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures For ‘sound’ mats http://www.twinkl.co.uk http://displays.tpet.co.uk http://www.sparklebox.co.uk

Ask staff if you have any questions at any time. Last thoughts... Have fun!!! Ask staff if you have any questions at any time. Thank you for coming!