1. CHEAM PARK FARM PRIMARY ACADEMY
Welcome to our Phonics workshop
Whilst you are waiting please complete the phonics quiz on the table

2. What am I going to gt out of this????
Agenda
Phonics in Nursery
Teaching phonics in Reception- different phases
How we teach phonics
Blending and segmenting
Sound buttons
Sounds activities- lets have a play
Helping at home
What am I going to gt out of this????

3. How did we do with the quiz?

4. How do children learn to read?
Knowledge of story language
Use of phonics
Knowledge of how the word looks
Use of pictures - these can enhance, explain, give clues or even replace the text
5 a day

5. What do we need to do to help children learn to read?
Focus on develping knowledge of story language
Read to our children as much as possible
Discuss TV shows in the context of story language
Get our children to practise speaking in a posh voice
Re- reading texts until they are in our memories

6. What do we need to do to help children learn to read?
Use of Phonics
Phonics is taught to children throughout the school every day
To teach and learn phonics effectively the pure sound must be used

7. What is Phonics?
The individual sounds that make up each letter or group of letters.
Phase 2- single letters to make 1 sound
Phase 3- 2 or 3 letters together to make 1 sound
Children need to associate the sound they are making when talking with the letter they can see.

8. Phonics is taught to children throughout the school every day
To teach and learn phonics effectively the pure sound must be used

9. Letters and Sounds 2007
Primary strategy programme to teach phonics from nursery to Year 2
Set out in phases 1 – 6 with recommendations about when each phase should be taught
Whole school follows this programme

10. Phase 1- Nursery
Children entering our reception classes have usually been working within phase 1, providing opportunities to enrich their language across all the areas of learning.
Phase 1 focuses on a language-rich provision with children being exposed to environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and oral blending and segmenting.

11. Phase 2- Early reception
The purpose of phase 2 is to move from oral blending and segmenting, where children are hearing adults modelling oral blending, to blending and segmenting with letters.
To teach at least 19 letters (we focus on 4 a week)
By the end of the phase many children should be able to read and spell some VC (vowel, consonant) and CVC words (consonant, vowel, consonant).

12. Phase 3- later reception
The purpose of phase 3 is to teach another 25 graphemes- the sound that letters make together e.g. ‘oa’.
Continue blending and segmenting, applying to reading and writing.
Introduce further tricky words.
Learn letter names.

13. Phase 4- later reception
To consolidate the children’s knowledge of graphemes in reading and spelling.

14. Different ways we teach phonics
Phonics is taught each day using a variety of supporting aids:
following the letters and sounds programme
using the Jolly Phonics songs/pictures/ actions.
Big cat
Espresso phonics videos (Scrap and Polly)

15. So are you ready to give it a go?

20. Blending and segmenting
We blend sounds to create words as we are speaking to help us read by pushing them together
c – a – t is the word cat
When reading and writing we segment the words by sounding out each phoneme breaking the word up
cat is c – a - t

21. Sound buttons
We encourage children to identify the sounds in a word by using a ‘sound button’ to represent each one. Children ‘press the button’ for each individual sound.

22. Let’s apply our sound buttons!
Phase 2 words

23. cat

24. cat

25. mop

26. mop

27. sock

28. sock

29. Let’s apply our sound buttons! Phase 3 words
(don’t forget some sounds may be 2 letters together!)

30. chip

31. chip

32. goat

33. goat

34. rain

35. rain

36. zom churt PSEUDO/ALIEN WORDS
Alongside real words we also encourage children to identify sounds in pseudo or alien words. It is useful for identifying which children are so secure in their sounds knowledge that they can identify and read them in any word.

37. Sounds activities Let’s look at the resources

38. Helping at home
Revising the sounds learnt each week- refer to sound sheet sent home in home learning folder
Play sound activities: eye spy, listening hunt, sound hunt, lotto games, create sound pots.
Home-made activities that you make with your child are fantastic!
Shopping list to take home.

39. Any Questions?