1. Letters and sounds

2. Phonics at a glance Phonics is Skills of segmentation and blending
Knowledge of the alphabetic code

3. Blending phonemes into words for reading..
Phonics consist of:
Identifying sounds in spoken words.
Blending phonemes into words for reading..
Segmenting words into phonemes for spelling.

4. Phonemes and Graphemes
Phonemes are the sounds
Graphemes are the letters
A grapheme may consist of one (l) two (sh) or more letters (igh)
The same graphemes may represent more than one phoneme. (me, met)
You Tube: Articulation of phonemes

5. Blending:
Recognising the letter sounds in a written word, eg. C-u-p, sh-ee-p
Merging them in the order in which they are written to pronounce the word:
Cup, sheep.

6. Segmenting:
Identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word e.g (h-i-m, s-t-or-k) and writing down letters for each sound (phoneme) to form the word:
Him and stork.
Segmenting sheet

7. Digraph: Two letters, which make one phoneme!!
A consonant digraph contains two consonants. E.g: sh, ck, th, ll
A vowel digraph contains at least one vowel. Eg: ai, ee, ar, oy

8. Trigraph: Three letters which make one phoneme igh dge
How many words can you make with these graphemes in….?

9. Split Digraph:
A Digraph in which the two letters are not together in the word.
e.g
a_e
Make
Bake
Song: Cherries on a plate
Using string/holding hands.

10. Model for daily teaching of phonics skills and knowledge:
Revisit and review
Teach
Practise
Apply
Video clip

11. Remember… Phonics is the step up to word recognition
Automatic reading all words- decodable and tricky is the ultimate goal!
Confidence in building word specific knowledge of the spelling of words.
Continuous language development.