1. Miss Lee & Miss Newton November 2015
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Phonics for Parents
Miss Lee & Miss Newton
November 2015

2. (‘Letters and Sounds’ Principles and Practice of High Quality Phonics)
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Being able to read is the most important skill children will learn during their early schooling and has far- reaching implications for life long confidence and well- being.
(‘Letters and Sounds’ Principles and Practice of High Quality Phonics)

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What is phonics?
Phonics is the link between letters and the sounds they make. Using a highly structured programme working through 6 progressive phases, children are taught:
The full range of common letter/ sound correspondences.
To hear separate sounds within words.
To blend sounds together.
Although there are 26 letters in the English alphabet, there are more than 40 speech sounds.

4. Useful Terminology Phoneme Smallest unit of sound in a word
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Useful Terminology
Phoneme
Smallest unit of sound in a word
(Phone/sound as good way to remember)
Sound out CVC words on fingers
Show sound buttons e.g. chip
CVCs – more than just 3 letter words e.g. sheep
Words to practise counting sounds: bright, speed, slight, broom, crayon
Sound stamp and jump some words together
Grapheme
Written representation of a phoneme
(graph/picture as good way to remember)
Write graphemes e.g. s, sh, ai
GPC = grapheme phoneme correspondence
Blending
Putting sounds together to hear/read word
Skill for reading
Segmenting
Breaking words down to say sounds in word in order to spell
Skill for spelling

5. Useful Terminology Digraph 2 letters that make one sound
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Useful Terminology
Digraph
2 letters that make one sound
Which are digraphs? br, sh, th, cl, ng
Br, cl, nk etc no longer ‘blends’ but ‘adjacent consonants’
Trigraph
3 letters that make one sound
E.g. igh, air, ear
Split digraph
2 letters that make one sound but are not next to each other
You may know this as ‘magic e’ which is okay to use with your child as long as they understand why; however, in school they will be taught ‘split digraph’.
Show example using cards of how the digraphs split but still say the same sound ee, ie, oe, ue (a_e doesn’t work in same way but is taught last and children understand concept of others!)

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Phase 1 7 aspects
Aspect 1: General sound discrimination – environmental sounds
Aspect 2: General sound discrimination – instrumental sounds
Aspect 3: General sound discrimination – body percussion
Aspect 4: Rhythm and rhyme
Aspect 5: Alliteration
Aspect 6: Voice sounds
Aspect 7: Oral blending and segmenting

7. Phase 2 the to I no go 24 new sounds 5 tricky words s a t p i n m d g
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Phase 2
24 new sounds
5 tricky words s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss
the to I no go

8. Phase 3 26 new sounds j v w x y z/zz qu ch sh th/th ng ai ee igh oa
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Phase 3
26 new sounds j v w x y
z/zz qu ch sh
th/th ng ai ee
igh oa
oo/oo ar or ur ow oi
ear
air
ure er

9. Phase 3 12 tricky words he she we me be was my you her they all are
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Phase 3
12 tricky words he
she we me be
was my
you
her
they
all
are

10. broom splash Phase 4 No new sounds. Extension of Phase 3.
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Phase 4
No new sounds.
Extension of Phase 3.
Introduces adjacent consonants e.g. br, spl.
broom
splash

11. Phase 4 14 tricky words some one said what do were have out like so
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Phase 4
14 tricky words
some
one
said
what do
were
have
out
like so
when
there
little
come

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It iz tiem too gow hoam sed v kator pilla. But ie doat wont 2 gow howm sed th butt or flie. Iy wot to staiy heyr. It is time to go home said the kator pilla. But I dont want to go home said the butter fligh. I want to stay here.

13. Phase 5 17 new sounds ay ou ie ir ea aw wh ph ew ue oe au i-e o-e e-e
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Phase 5
17 new sounds ay ou ie ir ea aw wh ph ew ue oe au
i-e
o-e
e-e
u-e
a-e

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How can you help at home?
Encourage children to sound out words in the environment e.g. road signs
Read with your child daily
Read to your child daily
Complete phonics homework
Spelling homework – linked to phonics
Play word games e.g. children’s scrabble, boggle, phonics dominoes
Early Learning Centre and Fun Learning have lots of phonic based games

15. Phonics in the environment
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Phonics in the environment

16. Some interactive games
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Some interactive games
watch

17. Your child will be given a Phonics for Parent Booklet tomorrow/ today.
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Thank you for coming!
Your child will be given a Phonics for Parent Booklet tomorrow/ today.