Mrs Walsh & Miss Vickers Hoylake Holy Trinity C of E Primary School Phonics Workshop

Children who read at home do well at school Read fluently Write confidently Speak articulately

Children’s spoken language supports reading and writing Children learn and practise many of the skills that they need for reading and writing from a very early age In order to make a good start in reading and writing, children need to have an adult listen to them and talk to them

Sounds in spoken language – the beginning of phonics Not all children will learn at the same rate! From a very early stage, children develop awareness of different sounds in spoken language. They develop understanding that spoken words are made up of different sounds (phonemes) and they learn to match these phonemes to letters (graphemes).

Ways you can support your children at home Play ‘What do we have in here?’ Put some toys or objects in a bag and pull one out at a time. Emphasise the first sound of the name of the toy or object by repeating it, for example, ‘c c c c – car’, ‘b b b b – box’, ‘ch ch ch ch – chip’. Say: ‘A tall tin of tomatoes!’ ‘Tommy, the ticklish teddy!’ ‘A lovely little lemon!’ This is called alliteration. Use names, for example, ‘Gary gets the giggles’, ‘Millie makes music’, ‘Natasha’s nose’. Teach them ‘Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers’.

Ways you can support your children at home Sound-talking Find real objects around your home that have three phonemes (sounds) and practise ‘sound talk’. First, just let them listen, then see if they will join in, for example, saying: ‘I spy a p-e-g – peg.’ ‘I spy a c-u-p – cup.’ ‘Where’s your other s-o-ck – sock?’ ‘Simon says – put your hands on your h-ea-d.’ ‘Simon says – touch your ch-i-n.’

Why Phonics? A complete literacy programme - systematic and structured. Meets the demands of the new national curriculum, giving your children the best chance of success in the national tests. One-to-one tutoring - no child is left behind. Storybooks align with the sounds learnt in class.

A bit of technical knowledge… Phonics = the sounds in our language. Watch our sound pronunciation guide.sound pronunciation guide. Now it is your turn to practise…

The English language is a complex code… It would be easy if we only had to learn Set 1 and Set 2 sounds. ayigh play eight cake straight right spie kite fly Set 3 sounds

Fred Talk (Reading) Say “hello” to Fred. Fred can only talk in sounds... He says “l o g” Not log. We call this Fred Talk.

Green Words (de-codable)

You can have fun with Fred Talk. “What a tidy r-oo-m!” “Where’s your c-oa-t?” “Time for b-e-d!”

sound-blending/ How to help your child to blend at home

Nonsense ‘Alien’ Words

Fred Fingers (Spelling) l - e -gh - u - sh

Red Words

Ways you can support your children at home No workbooks or worksheets !!!!!!! Little & often Magnetic letters Making little words together Breaking words up Both these activities help children to see that reading and spelling are reversible processes. Spelling is harder than reading words – praise, don’t criticise

Getting ready for writing We will model how to form letters (graphemes) correctly using the RWI rhymes, so that children can eventually acquire a fluent and legible handwriting style. We teach cursive style which the children find easier to join in KS1 These skills develop over a long period of time. A child’s ability to form a letter correctly is a separate skill from phonics. Holding a pen or pencil needs considerable co- ordination and practice in making small movements with hands and fingers.

Writing in lower-case letters We teach lower-case letters, as well as capital letters. As most writing will be in lower-case letters it is useful if you can use these at home. A good start is for your child to write their name correctly, starting with a capital letter followed by lower-case letters.

Phonetic writing

Oxford University Press publish the resources

How to help your child at home…

Ways you can support your children at home Using their whole body Hand and finger play Hand–eye co-ordination Pencil hold

You can read stories with your child. Relentlessly. Read favourite stories over and over again Read some stories at a higher level than they can read themselves. Listen to them reading their Phonics storybooks.

You can watch video tutorials. For how to do all these things and more