1. Gold Class
30th November 2015

2. Aims of workshop To help you to support your child to read & write.
To show you how (and why) we teach phonics & handwriting.
To develop your confidence to use synthetic phonics with your child.

3. Why do we teach phonics?
Research has shown that phonics is the most effective way to teach young children to read & write. (It is not the only way).

4. How do we teach phonics?
We use a combination of: ‘Jolly Phonics’, ‘Letters & Sounds’ and ‘Sounds-Write’ to teach phonics

5. Jolly Phonics
Jolly Phonics uses pictures, stories & actions to teach 44 sounds
Each letter (and combination of letters) makes one sound.
These are called phonemes.

6. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

7. Some sounds are written with two letters or more
Phonics
Some sounds are written with two letters or more
These are called digraphs
Jolly phonics Diagraphs link:

8. ai ee ie oa ue or ng oo/oo ch sh th/th qu ou oi er ar igh

9. Blending
Blending is a technique where we say the individual sounds in a word and then run the sounds together to make the word.
E.g. sounding out the individual sounds in dog like this d-o-g.
Blending improves with practice.
It is better to keep it pacey, when modelling.

10. Blending
Look at these examples...
pig meet
train ship

11. Segmenting
Segmenting is when you break down a word into the component sounds in order to write.
First, say the word clearly, then identify each sound you hear and write them down. It helps to count the sounds.
For instance saying the word ‘cat’, hearing the sounds c-a-t helps the child to spell it.

12. dad coat rain stick conker
Segmenting
Now say and find the sounds in these words... How many are there?
dad coat rain stick conker

13. Tricky words & sounds
Some words are easier to learn as ‘tricky’ words and we teach children to learn these on sight.
e.g. the go he to no said she
Some words have double letters.
e.g. fluff floppy rabbit
In some words the digraphs are split.
e.g. kite Pete mute

14. Handwriting We teach a cursive script across the school
In Reception, we prepare children by
teaching thee three basic techniques

15. Pincer or ‘Froggy Finger’ grip
Writing anti-clockwise &
retracing vertical lines
Lots of practice using
pre-cursive script

16. Soundwrite exercise
There are lots of phonics apps out there to download onto phones and tablets.
Before you download make sure that:
The app is appropriate for your childs needs
The app blends and segments the phonic sounds
The app uses the English language/accent not American!
And uses lowercase letters

17. Soundswrite
Reception uses the app Sounds-write available in all app stores to download for FREE.
Type the code: 2090 into the I-pad.
Scroll through the apps until you see the Sounds-write app symbol.
Click on the Reception ‘child’ profile

18. You will then come to this screen
Soundwrite allows you to go through each stage of learning the phonic sounds.
You can build words by blending and segmenting, playing phoneme recognition or blending to read.

19. When the children join us we will be using the blending and segmenting rules to read and write some words and a sentence.

20. Can you use your sounds to read these words?
sat
pin
sit 20

21. Can you use your sounds to write a word to go with the picture?21

22. Now have a go at reading a sentence.
The cat and the dog. 22

23. Have a go at using the Soundswrite app on the ipad
The code is: 2090

24. Before you go…
In Reception, teachers keep an interactive record of your child’s learning and progress using an app called 2Simple.
We use this app to build up a profile of your child’s learning journey throughout the year.
As part of the 2simple package, we are exploring the option of sharing some of the observations we make in class with parents using a service called 2Engage.
If you are interested in this option of receiving examples of your child’s learning via , please take this time to fill out the letter given to you with an up-to-date address and hand it back to the teacher at the end of the session.