1. Reception Reading Meeting
Welcome

2. Phonics 5 Basic Skills 1. Learning the letter sounds
2. Letter formation
3. Blending and segmenting words
4. Identifying sounds in words
5. Tricky words
5 Basic Skills
There are 5 basic skills covered in Jolly Phonics:
Learning the letter sounds.
Learning letter formation.
Blending.
Identifying sounds in words.
Tricky words.
(You might like to explain what these mean in more detail).
The first four skills are taught every day from the beginning.
‘Tricky words’ are introduced after about 6 weeks. By then most of the children:
can work out simple regular words for reading and writing
are ready to learn the more difficult tricky words.

3. How you can help at home

4. Talking and listening.
Reading with and to your child
Playing listening games such as I spy and oral blending robot talk c-a-t
Singing songs and rhymes
Lower case letters not CAPITAL LETTERS

5. Please encourage
your child to practise
their sounds and actions
in their phonics folder.
Each week they will
receive 4 new sounds.

6. Phonemes The smallest unit of sound in a word.
There are 44 phonemes that we teach.
Important to say shortest sound – c not cuh

7. (two letters making one sound)
Digraphs
(two letters making one sound)
sh ch th ng
ai ee oa oo
ar or ur ow oi er
Digraphs
In English there are 44 sounds and only 26 letters.
This means that some sounds have to be written with two letters. These sounds are called digraphs.
The ones on screen are the first to be taught to the children.
Activity
Point to each digraph and ask everyone to call out the sound. You can provide a word for each digraph yourself, or ask for suggestions. For example:
/ai/ rain
/oa/ goat
/ie/ tie
/ee/ sheep
/or/ torn

8. Grapheme Letters representing a phoneme e.g. c ai igh
Children need to practise recognising the grapheme and saying the phoneme that it represents.

9. s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss j v w x y z zz qu ch sh th ng ai ee
igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi
ear
air
ure er

10. BLENDING Recognising the letter sounds in a written word, for example
c-u-p
and putting or ‘blending’ them in the order in which they are written to pronounce the word ‘cup’

11. SEGMENTING ‘Chopping Up’ the word to spell it out
The opposite of blending
Robot Talking e.g c-a-t

12. Once children are good with single phonemes…
DIGRAPHS – 2 letters that make 1 sound
ll ss zz oa ai
TRIGRAPHS – 3 letters that make 1 sound
igh air

13. TRICKY WORDS Words that are not phonically de-codeable
e.g. was, the, I
Some are ‘tricky’ to start with but will become decodeable once we have learned the harder phonemes
e.g. out
Will be sent home in a folder to practise and
will be checked in school each week.

14. Reading Books
Start with wordless texts and picture cards. Talk about what is happening in the pictures, guess what will happen next etc
Move onto mainly phonetic texts that children can sound out or predictable texts.
Change books once a week on a Monday.
Bring reading book bag to school every day.
Please sign or make a comment in reading record each time you listen to them read(at least three times a week).

15. Tricky Word Sheets Tricky words for children to learn.
Parents tick them when they know them each week.
Teacher’s check and tick them off on a Monday.
If they confidently know all of the sheet they get the next sheet.

16. Where can I find resources to help?
Internet games -
Online books-
School Website -
Check out our Ducklings Class Pages

17. Other Issues
Library – any children’s book is a good book! Children will go to the school library once a week.
Rhyme and Story Time in the hall every Monday am- younger siblings welcome. Refreshments served.
Phonics Support always available after
school with Mrs Ham

18. Thank you very much for coming.
Any questions?
Thank you very much for coming.