Phonics Workshop June 2015

What is systematic phonics teaching? This teaches children the link between graphemes in written language and phonemes in spoken language, and how to use these links to read and spell.

Oral blending: Hearing a series of spoken sounds (phonemes) and merging them together to make a spoken word. No text is used. For example, ‘Can you get me a tin of b-ea-n-s? ‘Where is the p-e-n?’

Letters: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Some of the 140 (approx.) letter combinations illustrated within words: cat, look, would, put, peg, bread, cart, fast, pig, wanted, burn, first, term, heard, work, log, want, torn, door, warn, plug, love, haul, law, call, pain, day, gate, station, wooden, circus, sister, sweet, heat, thief, these, down, shout, tried, light, my, shine, mind, coin, boy, road, blow, bone, cold, stairs, bear, hare, moon, blue, grew, tune, fear, beer, here, baby, sun, mouse, city, science, dog, tap, field, photo, van, game, was, hat, where, judge, giant, barge, yes, cook, quick, mix, Chris, zebra, please, is, lamb, then, monkey, comb, thin, nut, knife, gnat, chip, watch, paper, ship, mission, chef, rabbit, wrong, treasure, ring, sink. Phonemes: /b/ /d/ /f/ /g/ /h/ /j/ /k/ /l/ /m/ /n/ /p/ /r/ /s/ /t/ /v/ /w/ /wh/ /qu/ /y/ /z/ /th/ /th/ /ch/ /sh/ /zh/ /ng/ /a/ /e/ /i/ /o/ /u/ /ae/ /ee/ /ie/ /oe/ /ue/ /oo/ /ar/ /ur/ /or/ /au/ /er/ /ow/ /oi/ /air/ /ear/

What is a phoneme? A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound and can comprise of more than letter. Eg a or ai A grapheme is the symbol for a phoneme.

Digraph 2 letters that make 1 phoneme ee (feet), ch (chip), oa (boat) Trigraph 3 letters that make 1 phoneme igh (night), dge (edge)

Split digraph o-e hope a-e cake u-e cube i-e dive

Segmenting words for spelling. (finger counting) Blending for reading (running finger along) And that these are reversible processes

Reception Beginning of systematic high quality phonic work (grapheme phoneme correspondence) s a t p i n

Complete the teaching of the alphabet. Learn 1 representation for at least 42 of the 44 phonemes of British Received Pronunciation Children should be working securely in this phase by the end of Reception

c-a-t blend sounds together to read ‘cat’ To segment (chop / spell) c-a-t rain = r-ai-n shop= sh-o-p might = m-igh-t hill = h-i-ll

WORD PHONEMES cup rain sheep bring cart straight

c u p r ai n sh ee b i ng ar t s aigh WORD PHONEMES cup c u p rain r ai n sheep sh ee bring b i ng cart ar t straight s aigh

How can you help your child at home?

How many items can your child find that begin with ‘m’? Can your child make something that begins with ‘s’ using playdough? Can you find something in the supermarket beginning with ‘b’? Play ‘I-spy’ using this weeks letter sounds.

Can your child see a particular letter in a book or outside? Put several items on a tray that all begin with the same sound and one that begins with a different sound. Can your child tell you the odd one out?

If your child is ready to start writing letters, please help them to write lower case letters only. Please encourage your child to use our ‘Penpal’ script. Children may like to do this outside using chalk or water and a large paint brush.

If your child knows all their letter sounds and is able to write them, they may like to write a list of words beginning with each sound and bring it in to share with the class. Please help your child to write the sounds they can hear in each word.

Most important of all: Only carry out activities for 5 or 10 minutes, but on a regular basis. Be positive and use lots of praise.

www.hayes-pri.bromley.sch.uk pupils/Early Years Foundation/phonics

Please watch Pip’s phonic video with your child for the correct annunciation of phonemes either via the school website www.hayes-pri.bromley.sch.uk pupils/Early Years Foundation Stage/phonics or www.phonicbooks.co.uk/teaching_parent.php

http://www.ican.org.uk http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk http://www.literacytrust.org.uk https://www.thecommunicationtrust.org.uk

Any questions?