1. The teaching of phonics at Seamer and Irton School

2. Welcome! Session: *What is phonics?
*The progression of phonics teaching from EYFS through KS1
*The teaching of common exception (tricky words)and high frequency words
*The importance of reading for pleasure
*Ways to support with reading at home
*Useful websites

3. Cracking the Code 26 letters of the alphabet
44 sounds in the English Language
(you tube articulation clip)
144 different ways we put letters together to represent the sounds

4. The key elements of phonics
The children are taught:
grapheme-phoneme correspondence (the letters needed to represent a sound when writing)
 to synthesise (blend) phonemes (sounds) in order, all through a word, to read it
 to segment words into their constituent phonemes for spelling
 that blending and segmenting are reversible processes
ways to remember how to spell a range of high frequency ( in, on, and) and common exception words
( e.g. like, the, was )

5. End of year aims for Reception children
Early Learning Goal for Reading:
*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.

6. Phonics in Reception
Phase 1 - We begin with tuning into sounds – listening for sounds in the environment, hearing and generating rhyming words and words that begin with the same sound (alliteration).
Phase 2 - We introduce phonemes.
Four part lesson:
Revisit and review – previous phonemes and words
Teach – a new phoneme and weekly words
Read / blend - through practical games and activities
Spell / segment – through practical games and activities
Sessions are very active, fast paced and practical!
Phase 1 – instruments, animal noises, blindfold games
Demo brief four part session
Play a game

7. How can you support reading at home?
Read to your child – any book from home or school
Share the reading
Decodable words – encourage blending of sounds in simple words, e.g. b-e-d
Non – decodable words – encourage children to look for whole words they have been learning, e.g. I, at, is
Read online books –
Play games to help your child learn phonemes and words– e.g. snap, eye spy, bingo (see home activity book)
Little and often with lots of praise