1. St Andrew’s Reception Information evening for Parents.

2. Aims To share how phonics is taught in Reception
To teach the basics of phonics and some useful phonics terms
To show examples of activities and resources we use to teach phonics
Start to have a look at some early writing
To share websites which parents can use to support their children
Questions

3. Why?

4. + Phonics is all about using … knowledge of the alphabet
skills for reading and spelling +
Learning phonics will help your child to become a good reader and writer.

5. Every child in Reception learns daily phonics at their level
Key words and big book time
In January we start daily writing sessions
Individual reading

6. Phonic terms Phoneme (sound) Grapheme (letter formation)
Blending (putting sounds together to make word)
Segmenting (breaking word into sounds)
Digraph (2 letter sounds /oo/ /ch/)
Trigraph (3 letter sounds /igh/)
CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant)
Sound button
Key words

7. Pre Reading

8. Daily Phonics Every day the children have a 20 minute
session of phonics.
• Fast paced approach
Lessons encompass a range of games,
songs and rhymes
We use Jolly Phonics aide memoir
We use the Letters and Sounds planning document to support the teaching of phonics
There are 6 phonics phases which the children work through at their own pace
Daily Phonics
Phoneme frames, sound buttons, full circle, countdown, flashcards, buried treasure

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

10. 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,

11. Letter Progression: Set 6 -
Letter Progression: Set 6 - j, v, w, x Set y, z, zz, qu Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng. Vowel digraphs and trigraphs: ear, air, ure, er, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo

12. Blending When we teach children to read, we
tell them to: Look at the letter and
make the sound.?
pin
tin
This is called blending or sounding out.

13. a
the I in
was to
and it my
that he
went of is
then
with am
had me
some
are
has
one
there at
have
out
they
come
her
saw
this
for
his
see we go
little
she
when
about
could
make
take
after
did
new
their
all do
next
them an
down
not
three as
from
now
time
away
get
off
today
back
got
old
too be
here on
two
because
him
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big
into
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very by
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live
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what
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look
said
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made so
you

14. Phase 4: Introducing consonant clusters: reading and spelling words with four or more phonemes
Children move into phase 4 when they know all the phonemes from phases 2 and 3 and can use them to read and spell simple words (blending to read and segmenting to spell).
Phase 4 doesn’t introduce any new phonemes.
It focuses on reading and spelling longer words with the phonemes they already know.
These words have consonant clusters at the beginning: spot, trip, clap, green, clown
…or at the end: tent, mend, damp, burnt
…or at the beginning and end! trust, spend,
twist

15. Websites www.phonicsplay.co.uk http://www.northwood.org.uk/phonics.htm

16. Books
When children know approximately 18 letter sounds we move them on to books with words.
Books are changed daily when children have finished with their books
Children need to be confident in both the reading and comprehension before moving reading levels

17. Reading at Home Find a quiet place, away from T.V. etc
Little and often
Look at the title, front cover. What could the book be about? Read the blurb on the back
Talk about the illustrations
Discuss the characters, what are they thinking / feeling? What might they do next?
What might happen at the end?
Encourage children to sound out words they don’t know
Make a note in the reading diary

18. Reading at Home Read a wide variety of different types of books
Read stories to your child
Let your child see you reading for pleasure

19. Emergent writing “means that children begin to understand that writing is a form of communication and their marks on paper convey a message” (Mayer, 2007, p. 35).

20. Talk for writing …….

21. At the same time as teaching the sounds we teach them the formation of the letters

24. Marks & Scribbling
Drawing
Scribble Writing
Letterlike Forms & Individual Letters Letter Strings
Phonics
• Conventional Forms

26. Lots of encouragement Talk Writing for a purpose QUESTIONS????
What can you do to help?…
Lots of encouragement
Talk
Writing for a purpose
QUESTIONS????