1. Phonics Workshop
11th January 2018

2. In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme
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. In reception we teach the Jolly Phonics actions alongside the programme.

3. Terminology Phoneme Graphemes Segmenting and blending Digraph Trigraph
Graphemes
Segmenting and blending
Digraph
Trigraph
Split digraph
Abbreviations

4. Phase 1 There are 7 aspects with 3 strands. A1 – Environmental
A2 – Instrumental sounds
A3 – Body Percussion
A4 – Rhythm and rhyme
A5 – Alliteration
A6 – Voice sounds
A7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

5. Phase 2 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

6. Phase 3 Set 6: j, v, w, x Set 7: y, z, zz, qu
Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng
Vowel digraphs and trigraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er

7. Phase 4
This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases.

8. 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

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

10. Segmenting
Breaking down words for spelling.
cat
c a t

11. Segmenting
Queen qu ee n

12. Building words from phonemes to read.
Blending
Building words from phonemes to read.
c a t
cat

13. Blending
Qu ee n queen

14. How many sounds?
Dig
Chat
Sheep
Sack
Make

15. ‘Tricky/special’ words
Alongside this, the children are introduced to tricky words. These are the words that are irregular. This means that phonics cannot be applied to the reading and spelling of these words.
I prefer to call them special words as the word tricky implies they’re hard. The children know both terms and depends on teacher/TA preference.

16. What does a Phonics lesson look like?
We split the children across Reception and Class 2 into smaller 4 groups. This means that we can teach to the needs of the children and assess them thoroughly so that we can move their learning on quickly. These groups are fluid and reviewed constantly by the teacher/TA. We teach 20 min lessons daily.
Revisit/review
Flashcards/game to practice phonemes learnt so far.
Teach
Teach new phoneme ‘sh’ with jolly phonic action or special words (we, me, be)
Practice
IWB game eg Buried treasure/dragons den
OR bingo/matching/pairs etc
Apply
Read captions:
I am in a rush to get to the shop
I got a shell and a fish
Assess
Make notes on assessment sheet.

17.
There are loads of videos on youtube. Mr Thorne does phonics with Geraldine giraffe
Alphablocks – cbeebies, BBC iplayer or youtube

18. Resources

19. Quick write – race with your child to write down words which use the sounds they know
Make a set of cards with the sounds and use these to make the words. Give them the first 6 sounds and get them to make a word and then change one letter at a time to make a new one. Gradually introduce a few more phonemes from the list.
Display six object and nine words and see if your child can match them finding the three extra words.
Let your child pick a card and then draw and label all the things you can think of that have that phoneme in them.
Add sound buttons to a list of words using coloured pens.
Use magnetic letters to make words and swap these around like the cards above.
Robot words - Pretend to be a robot and get your child to say and write the word that you are trying to say.
Slow motion sounding out.
Magic fingers – count the amount of sounds on fingers
Treasure Game – A set of 10 words on cards with 5 incorporating the sound you are working on and 5 that don’t. Can they sort them into a treasure box. (Maybe decorate a cereal box in wrapping paper)

20. Bouncy blending
Car park blending

21. Year 1 Phonics Test