1. Phonics Workshop
25th September 2017

2. Workshop Aims To share how phonics is taught.
To develop parents’ confidence in helping their children with phonics and reading
To teach the basics of phonics and some useful phonics terms
To show examples of activities and resources we use to teach phonics
To give parents an opportunity to ask questions

3. Early Learning Goals Writing
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.
Reading
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.

4. Phonics/Letters and Sounds
Phase 1 (Nursery/Reception) Phase 2 (Reception) Phase 3 (Reception) Phase 4 (Reception/Year One) Phase 5 (Year One) Phase 6 (Year One/Year Two)

5. Phase 1 – Home Activities
Phase 1 is split into 7 aspects:
Aspect 1 - General sound discrimination – environmental
Aspect 2 - General sound discrimination - instrumental sounds
Aspect 3 - General sound discrimination - body percussion
Aspect 4 - Rhythm and rhyme
Aspect 5 - Alliteration
Aspect 6 - Voice sounds
Aspect 7 - Oral blending and segmenting

6. Phase 1 – Home Activities
Simon Says
Find real objects around your home that have three phonemes (sounds) and practise ‘sound talk’. First, just let them listen, then see if they will join in, for example, saying:
‘I spy a p-e-g – peg.’
‘I spy a c-u-p – cup.’
‘Where’s your other s-o-ck – sock?’
‘Simon says – put your hands on your h-ea-d.’
‘Simon says – touch your ch-i-n.’
‘Simon says – pick up your b-a-g.’
Toy Talk
Use a soft toy that can only speak in sound talk. The toy whispers in adult’s ear – adult asks questions e.g. what would you like for tea today? Puppet whispers, adult looks puzzled but then says ‘oh you want ch-ee-se’. Repeat with other questions. Children to then ask puppet questions – do you like jam? Y e s/N o etc.
Look at my Mouth
Let the children use mirrors to watch their mouths as they experiment with different sounds. Wheeeeeeeeee, boinggg, ssssssssss, mmmm, tick, tick, tock whooooosh. Encourage them to observe what their tongues, lips, teeth and face are doing when they make each sound.
Changing Voices
Encourage the children to say their names in different ways e.g. slow, fast, loud, quiet, in a deep voice and in a squeaky voice

7. Phase 2
In Phase 2, letters and their sounds are introduced one at a time. A set of letters is taught each week, in the following sequence:
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
Tricky Words/Action Words
no, go, I, the, to, into

8. Blending Phonics Jargon
Your children will learn to use the term:
Blending
Children need to be able to hear the separate sounds in a word and then blend them together to say the whole word .

9. /b/ /e/ /d/ = bed /t/ /i/ /n/ = tin /m/ /u/ /g/ = mug
Blending
/b/ /e/ /d/ = bed /t/ /i/ /n/ = tin /m/ /u/ /g/ = mug

10. Segmenting Phonics Jargon
Your children will learn to use the term:
Segmenting
Children need to be able to hear a whole word and say every sound that they hear .

11. bed = /b/ /e/ /d/ tin= /t/ /i/ /n/ mug= /m/ /u/ /g/
Segmenting
bed = /b/ /e/ /d/ tin= /t/ /i/ /n/ mug= /m/ /u/ /g/

12. Phonics Jargon
Phoneme A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word. It is generally accepted that most varieties of spoken English use about 44 phonemes. Grapheme A grapheme is a symbol of a phoneme. It is a letter or group of letters representing a sound. Digraph This is when two letters come together to make a phoneme. For example, /oa/ makes the sound in ‘boat’ and is also known as a vowel digraph. There are also consonant digraphs, for example, /sh/ and /ch/. Trigraph This is when three letters come together to make one phoneme, for example /igh/.

13. sh i p t ow n Phase 3 Set 6: j, v, w, x Set 7: y, z, zz, qu
Set 6: j, v, w, x
Set 7: y, z, zz, qu
Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng
Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er sh i p t ow n

14. Home Activities Reading book Sound sheets Action Words
Blending flashcards
Useful websites
Sound spotting glasses

15. Oxford Owl

16. Handwriting

17. Homework

18. Stories from Home

19. Friends of Barley Fields
school disco
Santa’s Grotto
Can you help?
Summer Fair
fundraising

20. Any Questions?
Mathematics Meeting
Thursday 17th November