1. Phonics Information Evening at Flax
Welcome!

2. Workshop Agenda
Explaining ‘teacher speak’
Introducing a phoneme- a demonstration
Keywords
Digraphs
Phonics Check Year 1
Reading Scheme
Helping at Home
Questions

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

4. Playing with Sounds pg 14 -15
The terminology!
Phoneme: a sound in a word
- consonant phonemes
- vowel phonemes
Grapheme: a letter or sequence of letters that represent a phoneme
2 letters – digraph
3 letters – trigraph
4 letters - ???graph
Playing with Sounds pg

5. Phonic Phases 1-5+ Letters and Sounds
Phase 1- sound discrimination, oral blending and segmenting,
rhyme and alliteration
Phase 2- GPC (grapheme/ phoneme correspondence), tricky words
Phase 3- GPC (grapheme/ phoneme correspondence), tricky words
Phase 4- Recapping and tricky words (reading and some spelling)
Phase 5- New graphemes for reading, alternatives, tricky words
Spelling rules

6. A word on pronunciation
Pronounce most consonants in a continuous manner;
/c/, /t/, /p/ should be whispered
Reduce the extra ‘uh’ sound on /b/, /d/, /g/ as much as possible.
Have a go!

7. Skills Segmenting means hearing the individual phonemes within
a word – for instance the word ‘crash’ consists of four phonemes:
‘c – r – a – sh’. In order to spell this word, a child must segment it into its component phonemes and choose a grapheme to represent each phoneme.
‘Robot speak’.

8. Skills
Blending means merging the individual phonemes together to pronounce a word. In order to read an unfamiliar word, a child must recognise (‘sound out’) each grapheme, not each letter (e.g. ‘th-i-n’ not ‘t-h-i-n’), and then merge the phonemes together to make the word.
Playing with Sounds pg 16

9. Explaining Digraphs
a phoneme can be represented by one or more letters sh, th, ee
the same phoneme can be represented in more than one way
rain, may, lake
the same spelling may represent more than one phoneme
mean, deaf

10. Vowel Phonemes station pain day gate
Most vowel phonemes have two or more grapheme representations:
station
pain
day
gate
We use sound buttons to identify phonemes

11. The Split Digraph
time

12. Learning Phonics in Chestnut
Teaching phases 2, 3 & 4
Phonics Bug
Jolly Phonics
British Council alphabet song

13. Learning Phonics/ Spelling in Maple & Willow
Year 1
Teaching phase 5- alternatives to vowel digraphs. Use of phonicsplay and various Letters and Sounds games: quickwrite, phoneme frame, sound buttons.
Spelling rules (eg. adding ‘s’ to form plurals, suffixes ed, ing, er, est)
Year 2
Unusual spelling patterns (silent letters, al, dge…)
Spelling rules (compound words, suffixes, prefixes). Use of mnemonics, spell speaking, words within words, coloured tricky bits.

14. Sight Words because the people Why learn sight words?
Keyword sets in Reception (lists and sound buttons)
Keywords in Years 1 and 2 alongside daily phonics/ spelling teaching.
because
the
people

15. Our Reading Scheme Phonic Readers Coloured Reading Scheme red- grey
Appropriately readable ‘Real books’ added into the higher levels
Tips on how to read with your child. Mrs Williams will demonstrate!

16. Helping at Home Chestnut: Frequent reading
Sound card games and tricky words- MAKE IT FUN!
Phonics sheet
Maple & Willow:
Reading at least 4 times a week
Phonics/spelling homework in Year 1 and 2
Websites and the ipad revolution!
Hairy letters/Hairy Phonics app for ipad
Mr Thorne Does Phonics app for ipad
Squeebles
Meet the Alphablocks

17. Assessing Phonics Children are assessed in school.
Phonics check at end of Year 1
Designed to assess the children’s ability to blend words
Comprises of 40 words- 20 pseudo words and 20 real words
Children either meet expected standard or do not