1. How does your child learn to read? Phonics Word Recognition Context Clues

2. phonics A small dog went for a walk. 26 letters to make 44 sounds Listening – identifying & break into sounds (decoding) Putting it together again See / read it on board Practice writing it (encoding)

3. Word recognition t They went to town. Tricky words - word shape, Look at first letter or blend – onset and rime

4. Context clue – They went __________ in Peterborough on _______. Grammatical knowledge – knowing what kind of word could be in a place Picture clues

5. How synthetic phonics is taught 6 phases Phase 1- listening & making sounds (Nursery) Phase 2 – 19 letters – segmenting / blending - – about 5 sounds a week s,a,t,p,i,n / m,d,g,o,k / ck,e,u,r,h,b / f.ff,l, ll,ss identifying& break into sounds, count out phonemes Phase 3 – 25 Digraphs – about3 sounds a week ch,sh,th,ng /ai,ei,igh/oa,oo,ar/ or,ur,ow,oi/ear,air,ure,er

6. How synthetic phonics is taught Phase 4 – blend consonants Ten tent, men mend, pot spot, rip trip Phase 5 – more graphemes & alternative pronunciation - ay day, oy boy, ou out, oe toe, ir girl, ie tie, ue blue, ea eat, aw saw, au Paul wh when, ph photo, ew new,split digraphs (a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e) Phase 6 – develop fluency in reading, spelling (end of Y2)