1. Phonics for Parents Thursday 15th October

2. Objective
To explain our approach to teaching children early reading and writing skills.
To help you support your children at home.

3. Phases of Letters and Sounds
Children are entitled to a 20 minute phonics session everyday.
We follow a government publication called Letters and sounds.
We use Jolly Phonics to support this.
There are 6 phases in Letters and Sounds.
The aim is for children to be fluent readers by the time they have completed the program.

4. Phase 1
Children should really come into reception with a secure knowledge of Phase 1 – This is being able to tune into sounds, listen and remember sounds and to be able to talk about sounds. (Environmental, instrumental, body percussion and rhythm and rhyme.)

5. Phase 2 Learning 19 letters of the alphabet with one sound for each.
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 s,ss

6. Introducing a new sound
When introducing a new sound, we talk about the name, the sound and what it looks like. We brainstorm words that begin with this sound. We also have an action for each individual sound.

7. Blending http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PictureMatch.html
At the same time as teaching letter sounds we also teach the children how to blend sequences of sounds in order to say or read a simple word.
Children do not need to recognise letter sounds in order to blend.

8. Blending
We use ‘sound talk’ to blend simple words.
mum
can
box
nap

9. Segmenting
Segmenting is the reverse of blending and is used to support spelling.
The children listen to the word they want to spell and break it sound into individual sounds.
Children do not need to record the letters in order to segment.

10. What sounds can you hear?

11. Tricky Words
There are many words that we can not sound out, we call these tricky words.
E.g. the, to , I , no, go, into

12. Phase 3
We teach the rest of the 44 sounds. Many of these have 2 or more letters.
j v w x
y z, zz qu
ch sh th ng ai
ee igh oa oo ar
or ur ow oi ear
air ure er

13. Blending Can you blend the sounds together to read these words? shop
chip
sail
queen
boat
fight

14. Segmenting
When spelling phase 3 words we count the sounds, not the letters.

15. Phase 3 Tricky words my he
she we me be
was
you
they
all
are
her

16. Phase 4 No new sounds. Longer words with adjacent consonants
tr, sn, sm, pl,
mp, st, nt
spl, scr, nch

17. Blending Phase 4 words snail flight crunch tree crash splash spoon
float
help
flight
tree
splash
crunch
bunch
spent

18. Segmenting Phase 4 Words

19. Phase 4 Tricky words said have like so do some come were there little
one
when
out
what

20. Phase 5
We aim for the children to be starting phase 5 by the start of year 1.
In phase 5 children are introduced to alternative representations for different sounds.
E.g. ai, ay, a-e

21. Reading Books
We start children off with phonic readers that have a few tricky or sight words.

22. Other Strategies
When confident blending we look at other ways of decoding words.
Initial sound
Context
Pictures

23. Useful Websites http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/