1. Phonics Evening Parent task:
While you are waiting please write on the paper provided about something you have done today.

2. Willkommen
Willkommen in unseren Phonetiksabend. Wir hoffen einige Massnahmen für die Unterstüt zung Ihrer Kinder mit Ihnen zu teilen. Welcome to this phonics evening. We hope we can share some of the ways we support your children.

3. Keep Talking You are key to you child’s learning
Talk, talk, talk and more talk
Talk as you come to school
Talk at bath time
Talk on trips
Talk about anything and everything
Why?
Builds vocabulary
Allows the development of complex language
Understanding questions
Understand the story book language

4. Talk for Writing Talk for writing is about learning to talk a story
Have internalised the sentence pattern.
Be able to ‘talk like a book’ – be able to retell with confidence.
Draw on the underlying structure and language features of the original model.
Know the key ingredients, techniques and tricks.
Come to innovation as an ‘expert’ on the text type.
Children can only write powerfully when they really have the understanding and have something to say – if their knowledge is thin, then their writing can only be flimsy.

5. Phonics in Nursery Importance of phase 1
Under pins the phonic phases helping children to:
Tune into sounds.
Listen and remember sounds.
Talk about sounds.
Through:
General sounds and voice sounds.
Rhyme.
Alliteration.
Verbal blending and segmenting.
Activities are designed to help children:
1. listen attentively;
2. enlarge their vocabulary;
3. speak confidently to adults and other children;
4. discriminate phonemes; (letter sounds)
5. reproduce audibly the phonemes they hear, in order, all through the word; 6. use sound-talk to segment words into phonemes.

6. Phase 2 Beginning phase 2 Importance of correct sound enunciation.
Jolly phonic action
Showing correct formation in the air/in sand/ on backs
Initial letters of words.
Verbal sounding of CVC words cat, hat etc
For children who are ready - we support early writing and formation of sounds.
Use of magnetic letters.

7. Phonics in Reception Phase 2 phonics Review and refresh the sounds.
Begin to blend and segment CVC words.
Understand the different sounds – consonant/vowel/phonemes.
Begin to introduce tricky words.
Phase 3 phonics
Introducing digraphs where 2 letters make one sound.
Vowel sounds – ai/ee/igh/oa/oo.
Continue with blending and segmenting.
Introduce more tricky words
Listening and talking is the key.

8. Reception Phonics Continued
Phase 4 phonics
No new graphemes.
Introduce words with adjacent consonants either at the beginning or end of words – CCVC or CVCC words like trap or milk.
Begin to talk about split digraphs.
Parent and child time
Learn together.
Talk about what you see.
Play with language.
Work with them at the level they are at.

9. Phonics in Year 1 Children have varying levels as they come into Year 1 all are catered for.
Phase 4 phonics
Reinforce the sounds.
Use them naturally in reading and writing.
Reading clusters of consonants and phonemes.
Improving pace while blending and segmenting.
Phase 5 phonics
Phase 5 is the last stage of Letters and Sounds in year 1.
They learn all the remaining alternative sounds for the long vowel sounds.
Introduce split digraphs – kite/bake etc.

10. Year 1 phonics continued
What’s Next
They will continue to revise phonics in year 2 through Letters and Sounds phase 6 and spelling rules.
Phonics done in the first 3 years will be revisited as levels of understanding will be different for each child.
Phonics Screening
Statutory screening.
Challenge not test.
40 words – half real words half alien words.
Showing their phonic knowledge.
Pass mark changes each year.
Resit in year 2.

11. How to prepare for phonic screening
Read with your child daily.
Use phonic mats.
Complete phonics homework sheets.
Play games and have fun with phonics.
Talk to the teacher.
Past years’ experiences have shown me that support from home can make a huge impact in your child’s results and I look forward to working together with you in helping your child gain in confidence in their phonics.

12. Let’s Play
All this happens with children from ages 3 to 6 and in that time we expect them to learn so much and that is why it is important that:
The challenge inspires them.
Phonics can be fun and the result really exciting.
They learn at the stage they are at.
We do not rush and miss parts of the foundation that builds to fluent readers and skilful writers.
We celebrate every step of success.
Feel free to look at the materials we use in school and ask any questions.