1. for parents and carers 18th October 2016
Phonics workshop
for parents and carers
18th October 2016

2. Aims for today – what would you like to know?
To find out how we teach phonics at GCA
To see what resources we use to teach reading and writing
To see how writing improves through phonic knowledge
To understand ways of how you can help at home

3. What is phonics?
Phonics is the skill of hearing the sounds of letters and recognising the letter shapes that match the sounds.
Children need to be able to hear, see and say these immediately.
It takes lots of practise.
Take a look at how to correctly pronounce the phonemes…

4. Learning to read – Blending and Segmenting
To read, children need to be able to recognise, say and hear the sounds across the whole word, then blend them together.
We use sound buttons to help children identify the individual sounds.
Blending for reading
Segmenting for spellings

5. Phonics in writing

6. Phonics at GCA Small group teaching
Nursery & Reception – children learn actions from Jolly Phonics to support their sound recognition
Group across years 1 & 2 to support all children’s learning.
Revisit  Teach  Practise  Apply
Resources in all classrooms e.g. phoneme mats (Y1&2 children in back of planners)

7. Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
Statutory screening process – June of year 1
40 words – pass mark 32
Pseudo words
Application of all phonics including phase 5
Intervention and additional phase 5 phonics to support children in the screening
Use sound buttons to support
Children who do not pass in year 1 are required to retake at the same point in Year 2

9. How to help at home Play games and have fun! - I spy, sound-spot,
Always praise noticing and hearing letter sounds etc.
Activity ideas:
Make an alphabet book by putting a letter on each page and then cutting out pictures that begin with these letters i.e. for ‘w’ Weetabix
Make letter shapes with play dough, string, ‘write’ on a persons back and they have to guess the letter
Encourage your child to help you to write shopping lists, a thank you card, an invitation
Sing rhymes and songs
Lots of speaking and listening, talking about the day, sounding out words for children to respond to e.g. ‘Can you find your s-o-ck-s’.

10. How to help at home Useful websites Resources
Magnetic letters for the fridge to make words (remember to think about 2 letters, 1 sound)
Write on notebooks, old birthday cards, pieces of paper
Visit the library. Read together and talk about the books.
Fill in the school reading diary with books you read - not just the ones we send home from school.
Useful websites
Search for jolly phonics sounds or clips of pronunciations of phonemes etc.