1. Welcome to our
Phonics workshop

2. Phonics Phonics is recommended as the first strategy that children should be taught in helping them learn to read.
A Phoneme
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word. 
How many phonemes can you hear in the word cat?
cat c a t

3. A grapheme is a written symbol that represents a sound (phoneme).
A grapheme can be represented by 1, 2, 3 or 4 letters: n
sun pan snap
shop fish crash sh
might high midnight
igh
eigh
weight freight neigh

4. sight shell s igh t sh e ll Blending
This is when children say the sounds that make up a word and are able to merge the sounds together until they can hear what the word is.
This skill is vital in learning to read.
sight
shell s
igh t sh e ll

5. Segmenting Children are also taught to segment
Segmenting Children are also taught to segment. This is the opposite of blending. Children are able to say a word and then break it up into the phonemes that make it up. This skill is vital in being able to spell/write words. ch o m p m u ch

6. Tricky Words Tricky words are those words which cannot be sounded out
correctly using phonic
sounds.
The only way these words can
be read and spelt correctly is
by learning them and
having plenty of practise.

7. Progression in phonics
By the end of Reception, children should be able
to write one grapheme for each of the 44 phonemes.
In Year 1, they will begin to learn that sounds can be represented by
different letters.
The following words all contain the ai sound, but it is represented by different letters in each word:
angel late train lay eight
In Year 2 children learn spelling rules, such as adding suffixes to words
(such as -ed, -ing, -ly, -ment and -ness).
They will be taught rules on how to change root words when adding these suffixes
Example: removing the 'e' from 'have' before adding 'ing'

12. Phonics Screening Check
In June 2018 all year 1 children will be asked to take part in a phonics screening check to check that they are at the right stage of their phonics learning.
The list of screening words contains
20 real words
(from existing vocabulary)
20 pseudo words
(Non sense Words)

17. Assessment at Hambrough

18. How can you support your
child at home?

19. Questions?

20. Thank you
for coming