1. Phonics The Sproughton approach
What is my message? What do I want people to remember? The 4 words at the end of the presentation

2. What is phonics? Phonics is… Knowledge of the alphabetic code.
Skills of segmentation and blending

3. What does phonics consist of ?
Identifying sounds in spoken words
Recognising the common spellings of each phoneme.
Blending phonemes into words for reading. – d-o-g
Segmenting words into phonemes for spelling. – dog
What do children do?
Sing
Play sound games inside and outside
Read
Write

4. A Phoneme This is the smallest unit of sound in a word.
A phoneme you hear

5. A Grapheme A grapheme you see
These are the letters that represent the phoneme.
The grapheme could be 1 letter, 2 letters or more! We refer to these as sound buttons.
t ai igh

6. Grapheme Key Vocabulary
2 letters making one sound ( ai, ee, oo)
3 letters making one sound ( igh ,air, ear )
Where the two letters are not adjacent
( a-e, e-e )
Digraph
Trigraph
Split digraph

7. Letters and Sounds 4 x 15 min sessions a week
Children are grouped by phrase across Key Stage 1
Phrase 1 - Preschool and Nursery
Phrase 2- Early Years
Phrase 3- Early Years
Phrase 4- Year 1
Phrase 5 – Year 1
Phrase 6 – Year 2

8. What do we do? Daily teaching sequence
Introduction( objectives & success criteria) ↓
Revisit & review
Teach
Practise
Apply
Assess learning against success criteria