1. Phonics “Crash Course”
21st November 2017

2. In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme to support the teaching of reading and writing at St. Peter’s. Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education and Skills which consists of six phases.

3. The children are taught to read and write pure sounds as a key strategy.
It is important to pronounce the sounds correctly as this makes reading words easier.
Accurate pronunciation is really important i.e. ‘c/k’, ‘f’, ‘h’, ‘l’, ‘m’, ‘n’, ‘p’, ‘s’, ‘t’.

4. Terminology Phoneme Graphemes Segmenting and blending Digraph Trigraph
Graphemes
Segmenting and blending
Digraph
Trigraph
Split digraph
Abbreviations

5. Phase 1 There are 7 aspects with 3 strands. A1 – Environmental
A2 – Instrumental sounds
A3 – Body Percussion
A4 – Rhythm and rhyme
A5 – Alliteration
A6 – Voice sounds
A7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

6. Phase 2 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

7. Phase 3 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

8. Phase 4
This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases.
We learn “adjacent consonants, e.g. bl, gr, nt.

9. Phase 5
Children will be taught new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes.
Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au
Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

10. Phase 5
At phase 5, children are taught to think about which digraphs to use by considering the alternatives or in which part of the word the digraph occurs e.g. ‘tie’, ‘high’, ‘cow’, ‘loud’, ‘rain’, ‘make’.

11. Phase 6 The focus is on learning spelling rules for suffixes.
-s -es -ing ed
-er -est -y en
-ful -ly -ment -ness

12. Segmenting
Breaking down words for spelling.
cat
c a t

13. Segmenting
queen qu ee n

14. Building words from phonemes to read.
Blending
Building words from phonemes to read.
c a t
cat

15. Blending
qu ee n queen

16. What does a Phonics lesson look like?
Revisit/
review
Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far.
Teach
Teach new phoneme e.g. ‘air’
You say, I say…
Read and write
Practice
Buried treasure – read and write
air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair, vair, sair, thair
Apply
Read and write captions:
The man had long red hair.
We can see a pair of boots.

17. Year 1 Phonics Screening Check

18. WHAT IS THE Y1 PHONICS SCREENING CHECK?
It is a list of 40 words (real and nonsense) for the children to read on a 1-1 basis.
Its purpose is to check that children can decode and blend words to a nationally expected level. It demonstrates their application of their phonic knowledge rather than their reading ability.

19. WHAT CAN YOU DO AT HOME TO HELP?
Be phoneme / digraph / split digraph spotters & detectives in words around them!
Encourage the children to identify the phonemes, split digraphs, etc. when reading words they are unsure of. We use dots, dashes and smiles.
Use this knowledge to then blend to read the whole word.
Read the school-reading books, encouraging your child to use their finger to move to each grapheme, sound out and then blend to read
Play phonics based games, using the websites on your information sheet

20. http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk Resources   
(use as teacher password) Then log in using your child’s user name and password)

21. REMEMBER DO ENJOY READING There is more to reading than phonics.
Please continue to read with your child each night and encourage them to:
use picture clues with initial letters
re-read to check it makes sense
think about what they are reading – ask them questions, discuss the pictures.
DO ENJOY READING

22. FORGOTTEN EVERYTHING??
tpeters
Parents
Parent talks
Phonics Presentation to Parents
Reading and Phonics
Articulation of phonemes

23. Questions?