1. Phonics Meeting 2014
Miss Martin

2. Letters and Sounds Structured Six phases Fast pace Consolidation
Blending for reading
Segmenting for writing
Tricky words

3. A New Vocabulary! Phonics – the learning of letters and sounds
Phoneme – the sound a letter makes
Grapheme – the written letter
Blending – running sounds together to make a word
Segmenting – breaking a word up into its component sounds

4. A New Vocabulary!
Tricky words – words that cannot be decoded using phonics
CVC – c = consonant (b/c/d/f), v = vowel (a/e/ee)
Digraph – a sound made with two letters e.g. sh ai oi
Trigraph – a sound made with three letters e.g. igh ure
Phonetically plausible – written phonetically that it can still be read although it is spelt incorrectly e.g. werk cabij

5. Phase 1 Practical Speaking and listening Songs, stories and rhymes
Blend and segment orally

6. What does this look like in school?
Exciting role play areas
Following a beat
Sound walk around school
Explore sounds different objects make
Sound games- hear and recognise the sounds- animal, everyday sounds
Listening and playing musical instruments

7. Phase 2 Learn specific letters and sounds Read tricky words:
I go no to the
Blend and segment VC and CVC words

8. Phase 2
s a t p
i n m d
g o c k
ck e u
h b f ff l ll ss

9. What does this look like in school?
We use Jolly phonics to introduce new sounds.
- Children learn actions and songs to help them remember the sounds
Magnetic letters
Sorting objects that begin with different sounds
Practising letter formation through;
Painting letters
Forming letters in the sand
Writing letters in the air
Chalk
20 minutes daily phonics lesson
Phonics puzzles
Sound hunt
IWB games
Sound bingo
Flashcards
Letter fans

10. Sounds - Phonemes Useful website:
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11. Phase 3 Learn remainder of the letters and sounds
Secure alphabet names
Blend and segment VC and CVC words
More tricky words
Write I go no to the
Blending, segmenting, reading, writing words, captions and sentences

12. ch sh th ng ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er
Phase 3
j v w x
y z zz qu
Graphemes
ch sh th ng ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er

13. What does this look like in school?
Sentence building
25 minutes daily phonics lesson
Writing simple cvc and cvcc words using;
Chalk
Whiteboards and pens
Different writing materials
Reading captions
Tricky word bingo
Phonics games
IWB games

14. Phase 4 cvcc words ten-t mil-k jum-p ccvc words d-rum p-lop s-poon
ccvcc words s-par-k
Blending, segmenting, reading, writing words, captions and sentences
Tricky words e.g. said, have, like, so
Decodable words e.g. went, from, just

15. What does this look like in school?
25 minutes daily phonics lesson
Phonics games: Bingo Loop Cards
Writing ccvc and cvcc words
Pens/paper/whiteboards
Word/sentence cards
IWB games
Phoneme Frames

16. Phonics Phonics Play: A useful website
Phonics Play: A useful website

17. Phase 5 Phase Five runs throughout most of Year One
New graphemes for reading e.g. ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ue, ir, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, ey, a- e, e-e, i-e o-e u-e
Alternative pronunciations of known graphemes e.g. a as in hat, bacon, path, was
Alternative spellings for each phoneme e.g. ay as in day, rain, cake

18. What does this look like in school?
Phonics games
IWB games
Guided writing and reading focus groups
25 minutes daily phonics lesson
Sentence substitution
Word games
Spellings to learn at home

19. Games: A useful website
Phonics Play: A useful website

20. Phonics Screening Check
End of Year One – Summer Term
Parents will be informed of the date nearer the time
Use all of the sounds learnt up to Phase 5
Real and pseudo words to assess children's ability to decode
Parents are informed of their child’s results
Phonics Play: A useful website

21. http://www.theschoolrun.com/year-1-phonics- screening-check
Phonics Screening Check
screening-check
Phonics Play: A useful website

22. Phase 6 Independence Learning tricky spellings including longer words
Application of spelling in writing
Adding suffixes e.g. s and es, ed and ing, ful, er, est, ly, ment, ness, y
Using a dictionary and spell checker
Using the past tense

26. What does this look like in school?
Phonics Games: compound word
Past tense plurals writing silly sentences
ICT/IWB Games
Act out the adverb
25 minutes daily phonics lesson
Find compound words to make a new word
Application of phonic skills
and of knowledge
Spellings to learn at home/
spelling dictation
Joined up writing
past/present tense

27. Support: A useful website
Phonics Play: A useful website

29. If you ever need any support please come and ask your child’s teacher.
The most important thing to remember is to make phonics fun.
If you ever need any support please come and ask your child’s teacher.