1. Phonics Letters and Sounds Workshop

2. Dough Climbing Baking Writing Painting Cutting
Importance of FMS
Dough
Climbing
Baking
Writing
Painting
Cutting

3. Introducing Letters and Sounds
Phonics is the key to children’s success in reading and writing
Automatic reading of all words – decodable and tricky - is the ultimate goal.

4. Letters and Sounds - some key messages
A Six Phase Programme
Making a good start – Phase One
Systematic high quality phonics – Phase 2 and beyond
Multi-sensory learning
Use as a core scheme but can supplement with other e.g Jolly Phonics

5. The role of Phase 1
Laying the Foundations – we must get this stage right!
Importance of developing speaking and listening skills
Relies on and complements a broad and rich language curriculum
Promotes the range and depth of children’s language experience
Introduces oral blending and segmenting (very important!)
Paves the way for systematic phonic teaching to begin

6. Phase 1 Seven Aspects Three Strands in each
Modelling Speaking and Listening
Introduces oral blending and segmenting in Aspect 7
Adult-led activities

7. Phase 2 Start of systematic phonics teaching
Introduces 19 grapheme-phoneme correspondences (letter sounds)
Decoding and segmenting(Breaking down words and sounding out) are taught as reversible processes
As soon as children have a small number of grapheme/phoneme correspondences, blending and segmenting can start (/s/a/t/p/i/n/)
Introduces‘Tricky’ words
Typical duration: Up to 6 weeks

8. Phase 2
Each sound has an action which helps children remember the letter(s)
As a child becomes more confident, the actions are no longer necessary
Children learn each letter by its sound not its name
– Say a as in ant not ai as in aim
The letters are not introduced in alphabetical order, rather they are chosen because the children can make two and three letter words from very early in the programme

9. Phase 2
Blending
This is the process of saying individual sounds in a word and then running them together to make the word
d –o- g and making dog
It is a technique every child will need to learn, and it improves with practice!
Some children take longer than others to hear this.
Some sounds (digraphs) are represented by two letters, such as sh, ai, ee
So rain would be sounded out as r-ai-n

10. Talking Partners
Can you tell your partner how many sounds are in these names?
Biff
Chip
Kipper
Floppy

11. Segmenting
This is the process of breaking words up orally into their constituent phonemes so that they can use their knowledge of letter-sounds to spell words.
e.g. jam j-a-m
sock s-o-ck

12. Phoneme Frame Can you put these words in your phoneme frame? Fish
Train
Church
Fright

13. Phase 2
Tricky words
Some words in English have an irregular spelling and cannot be read by blending, such as said, was, the one
Unfortunately many of these are common words
They have to be remembered and we call them ‘tricky words’

14. Phase 3
The majority of F2 children be secure at Phase 3 at the end of the year
Introduces another 25 sounds
Most comprising two letters
Reading and spelling two syllable words and captions
Typical duration: Up to 12 weeks

15. Phases 4 , 5 and 6 are delivered in Years 1 and 2
All children will do a Phonics Screening Check during June in Year 1. All parents will be informed of their child’s results.

16. Your child will receive a letter sound mat and letter sound book to support their learning at home. They will also bring home sets of words to learn.

17. Homework Sets of words to read will be sent home.
These will be assessed periodically throughout the term
These will be matched to the level at which your child is learning.

18. Tricky Words
Tricky words will be sent out for children to practise reading them at home e.g. I no go to the.
If children become secure with reading these they can practise then spelling them and using them within a sentence.

19. Things to do at home
Share stories
Listen to your child read
Look for letters and sounds in the environment
Talk about everyday activities

20. Thank you!