1. Phonics afternoon with parents

2. What is phonics? Letter sounds
Good phonics = good reading, writing and spelling.
Back to basics
This is the term used for letter sounds rather than the alphabetical name.
An initiative has been set up by the government to raise children’s phonological understanding.
A good understanding of phonics enables children to blend sounds together for reading and then breaking them down for spelling.

3. How we teach phonics
Our phonics lessons are taught daily and are 20 minutes long.
Phonics for reading
Phonics for writing
Karen
e.g. children are taught to break a 3 letter word down and pronounce each phoneme (sound) for each letter in turn, i.e. ‘cat’ would be broken down into
C-a-t.
Synthetic phonics for writing is the reverse of the sequence
Children are taught to say a word they wish to write, segment it into its phonemes and say them in turn, e.g. d-o-g. the children would write a grapheme (letter) for each of the phonemes heard and then produce the written word ‘dog’.

4. Letters and Sounds Broken down into phases
Children in year 1 will practise the phases 2-5, in year 2 they will move onto phase 6
Duncan
New Letters and Sounds document is split into 6 phases.

5. The Phonic Alphabet The English language has 44 phonemes
Children should be taught to write each letter, forming them accurately.
Children are taught to produce the sounds as short as possible, e.g. no ‘uh’ on the end of ‘d’ and ‘g’.
Duncan
British spoken English is generally reckoned to use 44 sounds or ‘phonemes’. Technically a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can make a difference to a meaning of a word. 20 of these are vowel sounds and 24 are consonant sounds.

6. lip went rubbish portrait Duncan
British spoken English is generally reckoned to use 44 sounds or ‘phonemes’. Technically a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can make a difference to a meaning of a word. 20 of these are vowel sounds and 24 are consonant sounds.

7. Segmenting and blending
buttons and zips
Duncan
British spoken English is generally reckoned to use 44 sounds or ‘phonemes’. Technically a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can make a difference to a meaning of a word. 20 of these are vowel sounds and 24 are consonant sounds.

8. Segmenting and blending
I spy!
Duncan
British spoken English is generally reckoned to use 44 sounds or ‘phonemes’. Technically a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can make a difference to a meaning of a word. 20 of these are vowel sounds and 24 are consonant sounds.

9. Segmenting and blending
Boggle phonics!
ch ea r sh
i p a n
ck o l oo
a x r sh
Duncan
British spoken English is generally reckoned to use 44 sounds or ‘phonemes’. Technically a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can make a difference to a meaning of a word. 20 of these are vowel sounds and 24 are consonant sounds.

10. Segmenting and blending
Boggle phonics!
ch ea r sh
i p a n
ck o l oo
a x r sh
Duncan
British spoken English is generally reckoned to use 44 sounds or ‘phonemes’. Technically a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can make a difference to a meaning of a word. 20 of these are vowel sounds and 24 are consonant sounds.

11. Segmenting and blending
Word sort
Duncan
British spoken English is generally reckoned to use 44 sounds or ‘phonemes’. Technically a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can make a difference to a meaning of a word. 20 of these are vowel sounds and 24 are consonant sounds.

12. Recognising different phonemes
Phoneme spotter stories
Duncan
British spoken English is generally reckoned to use 44 sounds or ‘phonemes’. Technically a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can make a difference to a meaning of a word. 20 of these are vowel sounds and 24 are consonant sounds.

13. Phonics Check – Y1
Statutory ‘light touch’ check on phonics understanding – including use of non-words.
Helps to identify which children need support in this area.
The check is age appropriate and is given by a teacher who all the children know.
Karen

14. Children will be regularly assessed by their class teacher to ensure that they are making progress
Children who need extending or supporting in phonics will benefit from additional intervention groups
Karen

15. Please come and see us if there is anything we can give you
How to help at home
Practise sounds your child is working on in class.
Challenge the children to find objects that begin with a certain sound.
Play ‘I Spy’ with phonemes - not letter names.
Practise letter formation.
Play rhyming bingo, lotto and extend rhyming strings.
Play games with word cards.
Make sentences with word cards.
Please come and see us if there is anything we can give you
Duncan

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17. Useful Websites www.bbc.co.uk/home/literacy www.ictgames.com
Duncan

18. Thank you!
Any questions?