St Catherine’s Early Years Phonics Workshop for Parents.

Aims To share how phonics is taught at St Catherine’s To develop parents’ confidence in helping their children with phonics and reading To teach the basics of phonics and some useful phonics terms To outline the different stages in phonic development To show examples of activities and resources we use to teach phonics To share websites which parents can use to support their children Questions

What is phonics?

Phonics is all about using … knowledge of the alphabet skills for reading and spelling + Learning phonics will help your child to become a good reader and writer.

Children learn at different rates. Every child in EY’s and KS1 learns daily phonics at their level. In KS2 children continue to learn phonics through spelling patterns and rules.

Every day the children have minute sessions of phonics. Fast paced approach Lessons encompass a range of games, songs and rhymes We use the Letters and Sounds planning document to support the teaching of phonics There are 6 phonics phases which the children work through at their own pace Daily Phonics

Phase 0ne Phase one is all about listening. Listening and hearing different sounds are really important for writing. You cannot write until you can hear the different sounds in words. We know that children are not ready to learn letter sounds until they have worked on their listening skills…..

Phase One Aspects Environmental sounds- tuning into the sounds around us. Instrumental sounds- listening to and talking about different sounds. Body percussion- hearing and copying rhythms using our bodies! Rhythm and rhyme- hearing the rhythm in words and the rhyming sound in words. Alliteration - This help children to hear the first sound in words. Voice sounds- This is a fun way for children to enjoy listening to different sounds and

Blending and Segmenting Blending Children need to be able to hear the separate sounds in a word and then blend them together to say the whole word. /b/ /e/ /d/ = bed /t/ /i/ /n/ = tin /m/ /u/ /g/ = mug

Segmenting Children need to be able to hear a whole word and say every sound that they hear. bed = /b/ /e/ /d/ tin= /t/ /i/ /n/ mug= /m/ /u/ /g/

Make phonics part of your daily life… Nursery rhymes, songs, action rhymes. Add sound effects to stories. Music and movement: rhythm, guess the instrument. Talking about sounds: listening walks, loud/soft, high/low, silly noises. Speaking & listening: silly sentences such as “Happy Harry hops” to help children hear the initial sound in words. Rhyming their names Mrs Skeaping Creeping….can they hear the eeping sound in both the names? Sound out words..ask the children to find their c-oa-t or their h- a-t. How can I help at home?

This is very important! Saying the sounds Sounds should be articulated clearly and precisely. strategies/letter-and-sounds-%E2%80%93- articulation-phonemes-vowels-and-consonants

Before we move on lets get to grips with some other terms that your children may use. Your children will learn to use the term: sound (phoneme) sounds that can be heard in words e.g. c-a-t

Phonics Words Your children will also learn to use the term: Letter name (grapheme) This is how a sound is written down

Phoneme frame and sound buttons cat fish..... _

Tricky Words High Frequency Words or Sight Words These are words that can’t be sounded out because they don’t follow the rules. The, they, are, you, are all tricky words

CVC words These are words that are made up of a consonant, vowel and consonant. Cat, hat, bin, hot, sip are all CVC words.

Digraphs and Trigraphs Digraph(2 letter sounds /oo/ /ch/) Trigraph(3 letter sounds /igh/)

Here are all the terms again! Phoneme (sound) Grapheme (letter formation) Blending (putting sounds together to make word) Segmenting (breaking word into sounds) Digraph (2 letter sounds /oo/ /ch/) Trigraph (3 letter sounds /igh/) CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) Sound button High Frequency Words/ Tricky Words/ Sight words

Phase 2: Learning phonemes to read and write simple words Children will learn their first 19 phonemes: Set 1: s a t p Set 2: i n m d Set 3: g o c k Set 4: ck (as in duck) e u r Set 5: h b l f ff (as in puff) ll (as in hill) ss (as in hiss) They will use these phonemes to read and spell simple “consonant-vowel-consonant” (CVC) words: sat, tap, dig, duck, rug, puff, hill, hiss All these words contain 3 phonemes.

Phoneme frames activity d eu gon t ck

Answers duck ten dog..... _

Phase 3: Children will enter phase 3 once they know the first 19 phonemes and can blend and segment to read and spell CVC words. They will learn another 26 phonemes: j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er They will use these phonemes (and the ones from Phase 2) to read and spell words: chip, shop, thin, ring, pain, feet, night, boat, boot, look, farm, fork, burn, town, coin, dear, fair, sure

Phoneme Frame Game shipchick night How to play: Say it, Say it, robot sounds (segment) and say the word (blend) Now can you write the sounds you hear in the phoneme frame?

Answers ship chick night.. _ _. _. _.

Phase 4: Introducing consonant clusters: reading and spelling words with four or more phonemes Children move into phase 4 when they know all the phonemes from phases 2 and 3 and can use them to read and spell simple words (blending to read and segmenting to spell). Phase 4 doesn’t introduce any new phonemes. It focuses on reading and spelling longer words with the phonemes they already know. These words have consonant clusters at the beginning: spot, trip, clap, green, clown …or at the end: tent, mend, damp, burnt …or at the beginning and end! trust, spend, twist

Is there anything I can do at home? yes

How can I help at home? Have plenty of pens, pencils and paper at home that the children can use anytime. Help them learn their letter sounds as often as possible. If they are bringing a book home please try to read with them everyday. Show children how important reading and writing is…write a shopping list and ask your children to help you hear the sounds in beans, or bread for example. If you are reading a magazine or a book ask the children to have a look too and find some words or letters they might know.

Practise the phonemes together – robot talk, I-spy games using sounds (something that begins with ……. ends with ……… middle sound is…………) Make phonics part of everyday life. For example, ask your child to find 5 things that start with the letter sound 't' on the way home.

Just before we go…. Phonics is not always the best way to learn for some children…..but we are very good at picking this up and we have other ways to get your child to read and write.

Websites phonics/ phonics/ Letters and Sounds resources and games.

Don’t forget… Make It Fun QUESTIONS????