1. Phonics Teaching Phase 4 and 5 phonics You will need:
You might like to provide staff with copies of the ‘Pace and Progression’ document that exemplifies each phase.
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2. What is phonics?
A way of teaching children to read.

3. b a t Children are taught to recognise the
sounds (phonemes) different letters
(graphemes) make.
b a t

4. bat They are then taught to blend the phonemes together to read the
whole word.
bat

5. Digraph – grapheme with two letters.
Often letters are read together to make one sound (phoneme). We say 2 letters, 1 sound.

6. ai
This helps us to read:
pain
again
hail

7. A trigraph has 3 letters.
igh
ear
air

8. pain p ai n We teach children to segment
(break up) words into phonemes
to spell them.
pain p ai n

9. We use our fingers to segment.
We count out phonemes on fingers to help children identify how many graphemes are needed to spell the word. sharp sh ar p

10. Phonics Jargon Phoneme – the sound a letter(s) make.
Grapheme – what the letter(s) looks like.
Digraph – a grapheme with two letters e.g. ai
Trigraph – a grapheme with three letters e.g igh
Blend – putting the phonemes together to read.
Segmenting – breaking the word up into phonemes to spell.

11. TRICKY WORDS
Tricky words, now called Common Exception Words, should be learnt by sight.
friend, there, the

12. Children are also taught to blend adjacent consonants.
black, flat, strip, chest, hulk

13. helpdesk, playground, driftwood
Children are taught to read polysyllabic words by clapping the syllables.
helpdesk, playground, driftwood

14. Year One
Children are taught to recognise and use alternative ways of pronouncing the graphemes (what the letters look like) and spelling the phonemes (what the letters sound like) already taught.
Phase 5 continues throughout Year 1. Lots of opportunities to secure this, and to revisit learning from Reception. Might want to speak to the Y2 teacher and pinch resources.
HOWEVER, must continue teaching from where the learners are!
Same letters making different sounds – mean, bread, read (?)
Same sound represented by different letters – may, make, pain, etc.
See long vowels sounds sheet – teachers to plot words on the sheet.

15. Same letters, different sounds
mean
bread
read

16. Same sound, different letters
may
make
pain

17. Split vowel digraphs:
a – e
e – e
u – e
i – e
o - e

18. p ie spells pie.
To make pine we split up the
Vowel digraph ie with n.

19. They help us to read:
same
cone
pine
Pete
use

20. Phonics Screening Check
40 words
20 real words
20 pseudo words
Week beginning 15th June
Pass mark has been 32/40
Children not achieving pass mark
will be given extra support in
Year 2 and retested.

21. Pseudo or Nonsense words
They are included in the check
to assess if children can decode
words using phonic skills and
not their memory.

22. vol
Shog
foid
bulm
yewn
tabe
thrand
strad

24. Questions