1. Tooting Primary School Phonics Presentation Monday 3rd October

2. Aims To share how phonics is taught at Tooting Primary School
To develop parents’ confidence in helping their children with phonics and reading
To teach the basics of phonics and some useful phonic terms
To outline the different stages in phonic development
To show examples of activities and resources we use to teach phonics
To share websites which parents can use to support their children
To give parents an opportunity to
ask questions

3. What is phonics and how can I help my child at home?

4. Learning phonics will help your child to become a reader and writer.
Phonics teaches children to be able to listen carefully and identify the phonemes that make up each word. This helps children to learn to read words and to spell words.
Learning phonics will help your child to become a reader and writer.

5. Daily Phonics Lessons The children have a 20 minute whole class
daily phonics session at 9.00am.
Lessons have a fast paced approach.
Lessons include a range of games,
songs and rhymes using a wide range
of resources.
We use the Letters and Sounds
planning document to support
the teaching of phonics.
Daily Phonics Lessons
Phoneme frames, sound buttons, full circle, countdown, flashcards, buried treasure

6. What does a Phonics lesson look like ?
Revisit – recap on letter sounds and Tricky Words already learnt.
Teach – teach a new phoneme
Spell/Segment – eg b e d
Read/Blend - eg. Bed
Read Captions and sentences
Write – write letters, words and sentences using
correct letter formation

7. Phonic terms your child will learn at school
Phoneme
Grapheme
Blending
Segmenting
Digraph
Trigraph
Phoneme frame
Sound button
Tricky words
CVC Words
Alien Words/Real Words

8. Glossary Phoneme The smallest unit of sound found within a word
Grapheme How the sound is written eg. ck s t
Digraph Two letters that make one sound when read together sh ai ch
Trigraph Three letters that make one sound igh ear ure
CVC Consonant, Vowel, Consonant eg. d o g
Segmenting is breaking up a word into its sounds.
Blending Putting the sounds together to read a word
Tricky Words Words that cannot easily be decoded eg.some

9. Phase 1
Phase 1 offers lots of opportunities to enrich children’s language across all the areas of learning. It allows children to develop listening and speaking skills. Phase 1 activities focus on :
Tuning into sounds
Listening and remembering sounds
Talking about sounds (developing vocabulary and language comprehension )
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

10. How can I help at home? Nursery rhymes, songs, action rhymes.
Change words to familiar songs/rhymes
Add sound effects to stories.
Music and movement: rhythm, guess the instrument.
Talking about sounds: listening walks, loud/soft, high/low, silly noises.
Speaking & listening: silly sentences “Happy Harry hops”, making sounds with body/voice animal sounds
Moooo / buzzzz/ shshsh/boing boing / wheeeee

11. Set 1: s, a, t, p Set 2: i, n, m, d Set 3: g, o, c, k
Phase 2
Set 1: s, a, t, p
Set 2: i, n, m, d
Set 3: g, o, c, k
Set 4: ck, e, u, r
Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

12. Saying the sounds Sounds should be articulated clearly and precisely.

13. Phonics Terms blending
Your children will learn to use the term:
blending
Children need to be able to hear the separate sounds in a word and then blend them together to say the whole word .
Use the letter fan . Robot the word and use sound talk.

14. Blending
/b/ /e/ /d/ = bed
/t/ /i/ /n/ = tin
/m/ /u/ /g/ = mug

15. Phonics Terms Segmenting
Your children will learn to use the term:
Segmenting
Children need to be able to hear a whole word and say every sound that they hear .

16. Segmenting
bed = /b/ /e/ /d/
tin= /t/ /i/ /n/
mug= /m/ /u/ /g/

17. How can I help at home? Oral blending : the robot game
Children need to practise hearing a series of spoken sounds and merging them together to make a word.
For example, you say ‘b-u-s’, and your child says ‘bus’.
Use magnetic letters – to segment a word

18. Phoneme Frames/Sound Buttonsc a t f i sh _

19. Phoneme Frames l o g d u ck _ f i ll _

20. Tricky Words
There are many words that cannot be blended or segmented because they are irregular.
the was said you some

21. Reading Captions pat a dog a cat in a hat a sad man a pin on a map
to huff and puff
pack a pen in a bag

22. Phase 3: Learning the long vowel phonemes
Children will enter Phase 3 once they know the first 19 phonemes and can blend and segment to read and spell CVC words.
They will learn another 26 phonemes:
j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu
ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er
They will use these phonemes (and the ones from Phase 2) to read and spell words:
chip, shop, thin, ring, pain, feet, night,
boat, boot, look, farm, fork, burn,
town, coin, dear, fair, sure

23. At Home Practise the phonemes together using the letter fans
Use them to make different words at home
Practice blending and segmenting the words – magnetic letters are great for this
Try to share a book everyday and encourage your child to sound out words.
Give them opportunities to hear sounds as you read eg. The dog played in the p ar k.

24. Useful Websites http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/Phase2Menu.htm

25. Learning to read should be fun for both children and parents.
Don’t forget…
Learning to read should be fun for both children and parents.