1. Welcome
Phonics Workshop

2. Aim We aim to share Phonics teaching in school
Supporting your child at home
Resources

3. What are Phonics? Phonics Facts
Why?
Terminology

4. Phonics Phases

5. Phonics Phases

6. Phonics Phases

7. read strue chapter Sound Buttons
Identifying the sounds that make up words.
Blending these together to read the word

8. Sound Buttons
chair shape blife

9. Supporting your child at home
When reading –
sound letters, don’t name!
segment and blend
play games– ‘spot the sound’
Practise sounds with your child
Practise spellings, which are linked to their sounds
Use sound flashcards and Alien Words
Hold flashcard – child reads
Sound out – child selects correct flashcard

10. The Phonics Check
What is the check? Checking children’s decoding skills Real and ‘Alien’ Words - 40 in total Alien words – if these can be decoded then phonic skills can be used to decode unfamiliar real words Administered in school Threshold mark in

11. Any questions?