1. Phonics Workshop
2nd May 2018

2. We’ll cover… The Letters and Sounds Phonics Scheme Phonics Terminology
Phonics Phases
Tricky Words
A Phonics Lesson Format
The Phonics Screening Test
Useful Resources

3. Introduction
In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme. Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education and Skills which consists of six phases
Main tool for teaching Children to read and write
Replaced the alphabetic, and look and say/whole world methods (although these are still used for Tricky Words)

4. But First, Some Terminology
Phoneme
Graphemes
Digraph
Trigraph
Split digraph

5. Phase 1 Taught in Reception or Nursery
Concentrates on speaking and listening skills
Children attuned to sounds around them
Lays the foundations for Phase 2 – developing oral blending and segmenting

6. Phase 2 Letters and their sounds are introduced one at a time
A set of letters is taught each week, in the following fixed sequence
Set 1: s, a, t, p
Set 2: i, n, m, d
Set 3: g, o, c, k
Set 4: ck, e, u, r
Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

7. Phase 3
Children already able to blend and segment words containing letters taught in Phase 2
25 new graphemes are introduced during Phase 3
Set 6: j, v, w, x
Set 7: y, z, zz, qu
Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng
Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er

8. Phase 4 No new Graphemes introduced Consolidate children’s knowledge
Continue to practice reading and spelling words

9. Phase 5
Children will be taught new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes
Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au
Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

10. Phase 6 The focus is on learning spelling rules for suffixes
Examples: -s, -es, -ing, -ed, -er, -est, -y, -en, -ful, -ly, - ment, -ness

11. Example Phonemes Pronunciation
Mr Thorne Does Phonics

12. c – a – t qu – ee – n Segmenting Breaking down words for spelling
Example 1: - cat
c – a – t
Example 2: - queen
qu – ee – n

13. cat queen Blending Building words from phonemes to read
Example 1: – c-a-t
cat
Example 2: – qu-ee-n
queen

14. Tricky Words Cannot be sounded out correctly using Phonics techniques
Taught by learning them and having plenty of practice
Phase 2: the, to, I, no, go, into
Phase 3: he, she, we, me, be, was, you, they, all, are, my, her
Phase 4: said, have, like, so, do, some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what
Phase 5: oh, their, people, Mr, Mrs, looked, called, asked, could

15. Phonics Lesson Format Revisit / Review
Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far
Teach
Teach new phoneme – air
Practice
Buried treasure:
air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair, vair, sair, thair
Apply
Read captions:
The goat had long hair.

16. Some Useful Resources

17. Year 1 Phonics Test
grit
start
best
hooks
phron
chath
sem
keeb

18. Any Questions?