1. Phonics Training Workshop
What is phonics?
Terminology
How we teach phonics
The phonics screening check
Resources

2. What is phonics?
Phonics is a way of teaching children to read which involves learning the sounds that letters make words. (It is not the same as letter names)
c-a-t
Children learn sets of sounds and then practice blending them together to read words.
They also learn to segment them in order to write words.

3. Phonics Terminology Phoneme – speech sounds
Grapheme – letters that makes the phoneme (sound) (igh, i-e, ie)
Blending – Merging the phonemes c-a-t into the word cat READING
Segmenting – Taking a spoken word (e.g. him) Identifying the individual sounds h-i-m WRITING
Pure sound – the smallest possible sound. ( ‘t’ not ‘tuh’)

4. Children learn sets of sounds:
How we teach phonics
Children learn sets of sounds:
Phase 2 s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss

5. Children learn sets of sounds: Phase 3
How we teach phonics
Children learn sets of sounds: Phase 3
ighs creem j v w x y z zz qu ch sh th ng ai ee
igh oa oo ar or ur oi
ear
air
ure er

6. How we teach phonics
Last set has alternative ways of writing sounds they have already learnt. Children learn sets of sounds. Phase 5:
ice cream ea ou e i ie
i_e ir aw ow
o_e ay
a­_e oo ew ue
u_e au oe
ore
e_e oy

7. Pupils learn to blend sounds together to read words:
How we teach phonics
Pupils learn to blend sounds together to read words:
p-i-n
ch-ai-n
d-ay-d-r-ea-m

8. How we teach phonics
They also do the opposite: segmenting words into sounds to write words:
p-i-n (three sounds)
ch-ai-n (three sounds)
d-ay-d-r-ea-m (six sounds)

9. Irregular words are taught differently
Phase 2 words
Phase 3 words
Phase 4 words
Phase 5 words I go no
into
the
he she me be we
was you they all are my her
said have like so do some come were there little one when out what
Oh their Mr Mrs looked called asked could water where who again thought through work mouse many laughed different because any eyes once please
the

10. Phonics Screening Check
The phonics screening check has been introduced by the Department of Education to check the phonics knowledge of children across the country.
The check takes place during the month of June.

13. Phonics Screening Check

18. Preparing Children for the Phonics Screening Check
Our pupils are used to reading to adults and having an adult check their understanding.
We do our best to make sure the test is not stressful for the children.
We do lots of preparation in class for the test, in the form
of our usual phonics work.

20. Resources
Sound charts
Alien word sheets
Parent letter