Phonics and Reading

Phonics is... Knowledge of the alphabetic code Skills of segmentation and blending

Phoneme – smallest unit of sound in a word. Grapheme – a letter or sequence of letters that represents a phoneme.

Blending – We ‘blend’ sounds together to say words when reading. Segmenting – We segment sounds into ‘chunks’ to spell words when writing.

Pronouncing Phonemes Phase 2 sounds – 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 Phase 3 sounds – Set 6: j v w x Set 7: y z zz qu Set 8: ch sh th ng Teach: ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er

Sound buttons Blending cat hot rain light

Phoneme frames Segmenting d o g ch i p b a ck

Examples of the stages of writing iwpc iwttdpc I wt to the pc I wet to the pk I wet to the prak I went to the park

Our reading scheme[s] Phonics Comprehension Word recognition Floppy’s phonics Oxford Reading Tree Word recognition Ginn (sight words) Sunshine Spirals (repetition) Group words sent home in plastic wallet

Games when reading You can read the sentence to your child and ask them to find certain words e.g. all the words that start with a ‘c’ sound. Focus on a tricky word for example ‘the’ can your child point to that word each time they see it when reading? You can sound out the letters of a word and see if your child can blend the sounds together to say the word.

Questioning It is important to ask a range of literal, inferential and evaluative questions. Literal (questions that require the reader to discuss what they have read) – how many sisters does Cinderella have? What was the pumpkin changed into? Inferential (questions that require the reader to search for clues and infer their meaning) – What caused Cinderella to lose her slipper? Why do you think the ugly sisters were nicer to Cinderella when they knew the slipper fitted perfectly? Evaluative (questions that require the reader to draw on personal knowledge) – If you were Cinderella, would you have forgiven the sisters?

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