1. Woodside Primary School September 2017
Letters and Sounds
Woodside Primary School
September 2017

2. Aims of the session
To share how phonics and early reading is taught, outlining the different stages in phonic development
To explore mark making and early writing
To share the basics of phonics and some useful phonics terms
To show examples of activities and resources we use to support you in helping your children with phonics and reading
To give you an opportunity to ask questions

3. Successful reading
Good word recognition + good understanding of language = successful reading + enjoyment!

4. Phonics Skills of segmenting & blending Knowledge of the alphabet
To become confident and fluent readers, children must practise their reading skills regularly.
Reading at home on a daily basis with your child will positively impact on his/her progress and enjoyment of reading.

5. Letters and sounds
Age-related expectations for progress in phonics phases: By end of Phase 3 (Reception) – Secure Phase 3 By end of Y1 – Secure Phase 5 By end of Y2 and beyond - Phase 6
Jess click (set up websites beforehand) and Gem talk through.
In Year 1 Phonics Screen test (40 words to sound out and blend to read with a mixture of real and non-words) – June (pass mark 32/40 The phonics screening check introduced in 2012 is a statutory assessment for all children in year 1)

6. Phonemes and graphemes
Oral blending and segmenting games:
Toy talk
Clapping sounds
Which one?
Cross the river
I spy
Jess click (set up websites beforehand)
Jess and Gemma doing actions.
Resources for the suggested games.

7. What is a phoneme?
A phoneme is simply a sound within a word e.g. ‘c’, ‘a’ and ‘t’ are the three phonemes in the word cat.
Jess

8. What is a grapheme?
A grapheme is a letter or a number of letters that represent a sound (phoneme)
Jess

9. What are digraphs and trigraph?
Digraphs are two letters which make one sound e.g. ‘ch’ as in children.
Trigraphs are three letters which make one sound e.g. ‘igh’ as in light.
Jess

10. Sounding out and blending
Children sound out the words that they see in order to blend the sounds together to read words e.g. “f-u-n, fun”.
High frequency words e.g. it, am, and.
Non-decodable, ‘tricky’ words e.g. the.
Gem

11. Segmenting to spell
Children segment the sounds in words to spell e.g. “shell, sh-e-ll”.
When segmenting ‘tricky’ words we spell them out using letter names.
Within the Early Years Foundation Stage children’s writing should be phonetically plausible.
Gem

12. Recognises familiar signs and labels, and their own name.
Reading
By 54 months (4.5 years)
Recognises familiar signs and labels, and their own name.
Hears and says initial sounds in words.
By 60 months (5 years)
Talks about what they have read showing some understanding and emotional engagement with the content.
Links sounds to letters when segmenting and blending CVC words.
Early Learning Goal (By the end of the Reception year)
Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.
Jess - After 60 month statement – watch exemplification video – Jonathan and other.

13. Uses groups of letters or letter-like shapes when writing.
By 54 months (4.5 years)
Uses groups of letters or letter-like shapes when writing.
Ascribes meaning to the marks they make.
By 60 months (5 years)
Segments CVC words and uses appropriate letters to represent sounds in their writing.
Writes for different purposes.
Early Learning Goal (By the end of the Reception year)
Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
Gem - After 60 month statement – watch exemplification video – Tomi.

14. How can we help at home? http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/
(Alphablocks)
Username: student Password: woodside
Learning should be fun!
Thank you!
Jess click (set up websites beforehand) and Gem talk through.
The PP will be on the school website: Year group > Phase 3