1. Welcome to St Hubert’s Pre-School Phonics Workshopy e w u l d c u t b n q m
Welcome to St Hubert’s Pre-School Phonics Workshop x i k o z h n g f r s v a p j
St Hubert's Pre-School Laura Wroe and Nicola Atkiss

2. What we are covering…
The importance of learning sounds and listening skills.
Phase One – Letters and Sounds
7 Aspects to Phase One/Activity Ideas
Phase Two – Letters and Sounds
Letter Progression
Brief introduction to Phase Three
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3. Main approaches to supporting your children
Listening
It is important that you encourage your child to listen, during everyday tasks.
This enables your child to develop the skills to learn how to listen to sounds in words.
Phonics!
Remember…Children need to use Letter Sounds and not letter names, and always use lower case letters.
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4. Things to remember… Praise and Encouragement
Special place and time to learn together
Enjoyment
Fun
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5. Phase One – Letters and Sounds
The activities in Phase One are mainly adult led for the intention of teaching young children the important basic elements of the letters and sounds programme. How practitioners and parents/carers model speaking and listening, interact and talk with children is critical to the success of phase one.
St Hubert's Pre-School Laura Wroe and Nicola Atkiss

6. Key adult behaviours Listen to and encourage talking.
Model good listening and language.
Provide good models of spoken English to help young children enlarge their vocabulary and learn.
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7. The 7 Aspects of Phase One
Environmental Sounds
Instrumental Sounds
Body Percussion
Rhythm and Rhyme
Alliteration
Voice Sounds
Oral Blending and segmenting
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8. Activity Ideas Aspect 1 – Environmental Sounds
Listening Walk – Remind children about what good listeners do.
Tune children into the sounds going on around them, for example on a walk to school.
Reflect and Record – What sounds do they remember?
Aspect 2 – Instrumental Sounds
Grandmothers Footsteps – ‘Grandmother’(you or child) has a range of instruments and the children decide what movement goes with which sound, for example shaker for running on tiptoe, triangle for Fairy Steps.
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9. Activity Ideas continued…
Aspect 3 – Body Percussion
Action Songs – Sing with your children and encourage children to add claps, knee pats, stamps or move in a particular way.
Aspect 4 – Rhythm and Rhyme
Rhyming Books, for example highlight the words that rhyme.
Gruffalo – “A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood,
A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good,”
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10. Activity Ideas continued…
Aspect 5 – Alliteration
Simple game of I Spy – remember to use letter sounds and not names.
Aspect 6 – Voice Sounds
Voice Sounds, show children how they can make sounds with their voices. For example, I’m going down the slide weeeee, the train is going choo choo.
Aspect 7 – Oral blending and segmenting
Oral Blending – It is important that the children have plenty of experience of listening to adults modelling oral blending. For example ‘Its time to get your c-oa-t… coat,” c oa t
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11. Phase Two- Letters and Sounds
Children entering Phase Two, will have experienced a wealth of the activities explained in phase one. Many children will be able to distinguish between speech sounds and many will be able to blend and segment words orally. If children haven’t reached this level it will not prevent them from moving on to phase Two as the speaking and listening activities continue.
St Hubert's Pre-School Laura Wroe and Nicola Atkiss

12. Purpose of Phase Two Teach at least 19 letter sounds.
Move children on from oral blending and segmentation to blending and segmenting with letters. (If they are ready, e.g. c-a-t)
It sets up the foundations for beginning to read simple words.
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13. Letter Sound Progression
Set s a t p
Set 2 – i n m d
Set g o c k
Set 4- ck e u r
Set 5 – h b f,ff l, ll ss
How we do it – Sounds of the Week with Actions! (See handout).
ACTIVITY – Time for you to join in! 
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14. Letter flash cards of the ones you are learning Teach Practice Revisit
Sequence of Teaching
Letter flash cards of the ones you are learning Teach Practice Revisit
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15. Blending Sounds to make simple words
Use the sounds your child has learned to make simple words for example ‘s-a-t’ ‘p-i-n’ ‘c-a-t’
Just use the sounds you have been learning and words that are simple, remember this is just an introduction to reading.
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16. Phase Three
For children to enter into Phase Three, they should be blending and segmenting and know around 19 letter sounds.
Children in Phase Three will learn the remaining letter sounds and begin to learn Graphemes.
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17. Remaining Letter Sounds
Set 6- j v w x
Set 7 - y z,zz qu
When children have learnt all of the letter sounds these Graphemes can be introduced:
ch sh th ng ai ee igh oa oo ar ur ow oi ear air ure er
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18. Mark Making
Children need to have plenty of opportunity to develop their fine motor skills
Mark Making on a big and small scale can help with this
Don’t tell your child they have scribbled all marks mean something to them!
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19. Learning to Write
Children at this age may not have developed a preferred hand when holding a pen.
Encourage your child to hold their pen in a pincer grip.
Give your child other things to trace other than their name, use a light colour other than dots.
When your child is writing their name and other letters please encourage them to write lower case letters.
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20. Remember! Always revisit what you have taught your child!
Thankyou for coming and having good listening!
St Hubert's Pre-School Laura Wroe and Nicola Atkiss