1. Phonics Workshop
9th October 2019

2. 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.

3. The Jargon – A Quick Guide
Phonics – The teaching of reading by developing awareness of the sounds in words and the corresponding letters, used to represent those sounds.
Phoneme – Any one of the 44 sounds which make up words in the English language
Grapheme – How a phoneme (sound) is written down. There can be more than one way to spell a phoneme.
Blending – Putting together the sounds in a word in order to read it.
Segmenting – Breaking the word into its constituent sounds in order to spell them

4. What is phonics? Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing.
It develops phonemic awareness – the ability to hear, recognise and use the sounds within words.
Children are also taught the correspondence between sounds and the graphemes (spelling patterns) that represent them.
Phonics is currently the main way in which children in British primary schools are taught to read in their earliest years.
Children will also be taught other skills, such as whole-word recognition, books skills, comprehension, and a love and enjoyment of reading.

5. Why are children taught phonics?
Phonics, taught in a structured way, is generally accepted to be the most effective way to teach reading and writing.
Children learn to hear and recognise sounds in words and spell them correctly.
Phonics should not be taught in isolation – children also need to learn other reading and comprehension skills alongside phonic knowledge.

6. Pronouncing the sounds correctly

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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

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

11. 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

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

13. What does a Phonics lesson look like?
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:
She has long, red hair.
I went to the fair.

14. Resources

15. Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
designed to give teachers and parents information on how the child is progressing in phonics
two sections in this 40-word check and it will assess phonics skills and knowledge learned through Reception and Year 1. Takes 5-10 minutes per child
It is a school-based check to make sure that the child receives any additional support promptly- practice time is given, not stressful for children
The current pass mark is 32 but this could change.
W.B. 8th June 2020
Show booklet

16. What does the phonics screening check?
It will check that the child can:
Sound out and blend graphemes in order to read simple words.
Read phonically decodable one-syllable and two-syllable words, e.g. cat, sand, windmill.
Read a selection of nonsense words which are referred to as pseudo words.
Pseudo words are included in the check specifically to assess whether the child can decode a word using phonics skills and not their memory.

17. Year 1 Phonics Test