1. Phonics And Reading Workshop
Read Write Inc

2. Introduction Phonics is a method of teaching children to read
using letter sounds. These sounds are then blended
together to read words.
All children will be at very different stages of learning to read.
First stage of phonics is for children to tune into hearing everyday sounds.
Progress to hearing the sounds that words begin with.

3. Helping Your Child At Home
Sort objects or pictures into two different sound sets.
Fred Talk helps your child to hear the separate sounds in words
E.g. I spy a p-e-g
Where is your s-o-ck?
Put on your h-a-t
Play games such as ‘I spy’ using letter sounds.

4. Is Phonics The Only Way ?
The majority of children do learn through phonics.
A few children have really good visual memories and can remember words after seeing them a few times.
Phonics has been a big Government initiative for the last ten years.

5. Talking the same Language
Phoneme
A phoneme is the sound a letter or group of letters make.
There are 44 phonemes that are taught throughout school.
We all need to use the same language and enunciation of sounds.
Some sounds are bouncy and
some are stretchy. Youtube
sound pronunciation guide Ruth Miskin training

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

7. Read Write Inc and Jolly Phonics
It is a lively and systematic approach.
Just seeing a symbol and being told a sound to go with it can be tricky for a child to remember.
RWI has pictures to represent each grapheme and a rhyme to help with letter formation.
Jolly Phonics has a picture, action and song.
The children enjoy it because of the lively
and fun way it is taught.

10. Once children are good with single phonemes…
Greedy letter – 2 letters that are the same that make 1 sound
ll ff ss zz ck
Special friends - 2 letter phonemes (digraphs)
sh th ch qu

11. Blending
As soon as children have a small number of grapheme/phoneme correspondences, they need to start blending the phonemes together to read words.
We start with sounds m a s d t i n
Blend together easily to make short words that are easily decoded .

12. Blending m a t s a d t i n m i n p i n p i t
We use sound buttons to press each grapheme. Then we blend the sounds softly together .
m a t s a d t i n
m i n p i n p i t

13. Applying Skills Children will be asked to read nonsense words.
These are used to build up phonic skills and are fun!
The Phonic test in year 1 includes nonsense words.
Helps later on sounding out longer words e.g.
gar – den

14. drep blom gris Blend these words…
Nonsense games like this help to build up skills – and are fun! Buried Treasure game.

15. Tricky Words Words that are not phonetically decodable
e.g. the, I, no, go, to, he, she, we, be, was, my, you, her, they, all, are.
They need to be learnt by sight using flashcards or read, cover, write techniques.

16. Segmenting Hear each phoneme in the word to spell it out.
We use Fred fingers to sound out words.

17. Letter Formation
Important for your child to hold their pencil properly. Frog legs.
Letter formation needs to be correct from the start.
All letters start from the top apart from e and d.
Lower case before capitals.

18. Writing words Start with writing their name.
Simple three letter words they can sound out e.g. sad, mat, mad.
Use sound mats to help with sounding out.
Keep checking letter formation and pencil grip.
Move on to writing labels, lists, captions and cards.

19. Writing for a purpose
They need to be able to say a sentence and remember it before they can write it.
Finger spaces.
By the end of the year, we hope that they can spell some key words correctly, eg – ‘the’, ‘we’.
For harder words such as ‘space rocket’, phonetic attempts are accepted, eg – ‘spays rokit’.
Capital letters and full stops.