1. Phonics Workshop Tuesday 17 th November

2. Why is phonics important? Impact upon pupil Reading and Writing skills Links between Communication and Language and PSE development.

3. How do we teach phonics? Letters & Sounds Plans based around Letters & Sounds suggested structure & activities. There are 6 phases. – Phase 1 Develops the importance of listening and attuning to sounds. Crucial before segmenting & blending. (Nursery/Reception) – Phase 2 19 phonemes- focus on verbal segmenting & blending CVC words. – VC words- up, if, am & ‘silly’ words- ip, ug, ock & 5 tricky words. (Reception) – Phase 3 Further 25 sounds. Digpraphs & Trigraphs are introduced (ch, sh, igh) Make phonetically plausible attempts at reading/ writing CVC words. – Read more tricky words & begin to spell some accurately. – ( Pupils should be secure at this phase by end of Reception)

4. How do we teach phonics? Phase 4 Reading & Spelling. CVCC, CCVC words. Words with adjacent consonants (e.g sand) and two syllable words. Build up reading, writing and spelling of tricky words. (Year 1) Phase 5 Write all common graphemes. Read & spell phonetically decodable two and three syllable words. Read automatically & spell all words in the list of 100 high frequency words. (Pupils should be secure at this phase by the end of year 1) Phase 6 Phonemes spelt in more than one way (see/sea/which/witch). Spelling patterns. Prefixes & suffixes. (Year2)

5. Pseudo words poom shim taith vap dighp

6. How phonics sessions are structured 20 minutes Revisit- link sounds to letters/ recap ‘tricky’ words. Teach- new sound or new word. E.g Blending & segmenting skills (verbal- my turn/ your turn) Practise- e.g matching games to recognise new sound/ word Apply- Read or write using new sounds learnt.

7. Revisit Let’s recap the sounds we know.... Set a timer Musical statues Fast and fun

8. Teach This is a digraph (2 letters that make one sound). We know this sound already. (We have seen it before as ai- train, snail, mail, tail, rain.) See it, say it. Focus on the shape of mouth, position of tongue, teeth, lips. Look in the mirror.

9. Practise Can you use this new sound to write words for these pictures? Spot the odd one out!

10. Practise clay hay birthday

11. Practise Full circle (say, may, pay, play, lay, day, Sunday, way, away, say) How many ‘ay’ words can you make with these letters? t s r p a u d w h

12. today day say ray spray pray tray pay away Saturday hay

13. Rhyming words dray blay shay dway whay zay smay thay phay

14. Apply What day is it today? Rabbits like to play in the hay. Can you sing ‘Happy Birthday’? Is this the way to pay for my hairspray?

15. Apply Dragon, dragon...may I cross your magic river? Only if you can read the word......