1. All about Phonics!
Tuesday 1st October 2019

2. Spoken language supports reading and writing…
Make time to listen to your child talking
Show you are interested in what they say
Listen at home
Play a tune
Use puppets
Have a two way conversation

3. Phonological Awareness
Phonics
Phonological awareness
….is the ability to recognise the letter- sound correspondence in words. It is a visual (i.e. print) and an oral (i.e. sound) skill.
….is an oral skill that is independent of print.
Although you can have phonological awareness without phonics, you can’t have phonics without phonological awareness!

4. Letters and Sounds Phase 1 Phase 2 Actively listen to sounds
Nursery rhymes
Matching phonemes
Alliteration
Blending and segmenting i.e. Sound talking
Ongoing “Sound talk”
Phonemes and graphemes
Saying the sounds
Simple words – VC and CVC
Voiced and voiceless sounds
Specific order (not alphabetical)

5. What next…? Phase 3 Phase 4 Digraphs/trigraphs Further “Tricky words”
Reading and writing sentences and phrases
Segmenting and blending longer words
CVCC words
CCVC words
Consolidation of all previously learned phonemes

6. Using our Phonic Knowledge

7. Reading at home Read to them!! Read anything… Magnetic/foam letters
Making little words together
Breaking words up
Alliteration sentences
Book Talk

8. Writing at home Spelling is harder than reading Range of pens/pencils
Range of whiteboards/paper/notebooks
Writing for a purpose
Lower case letters initially
Correct grapheme formation
Finger strong songs
Pencil grip

9. That’s all very well, but how do you do it?!
Teaching sequence – review, teach, practise, apply
Using range of teaching techniques
Visual – flashcards/IWB/games/made resources
Snappy – 15 minutes
Display
Actions
Giving the children opportunities to apply their knowledge within their play
Be encouraging – giving it a go rather than getting it “right” initially…

10. The Early Learning Goals…
Reading
Writing
Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.
Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.

11. How to say the sounds correctly…
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12. What Next…. Phonic websites… www.phonicsplay.co.uk
(Jolly Phonics)

13. Thank you!