1 st december 2014. today we are going to learn… what is phonics? how we teach phonics in school...
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Phonics Workshop
1st December 2014
Today we are going to learn…
• What is phonics?• How we teach phonics in school• Pronunciation of sounds• The terminology of phonics• Different phases of phonics the children learn
It is going to be active and fun and hope you will join in!
The classrooms have been set up to see how we teach phonics at different phases.
What is Phonics?
Phonics is…
Knowledge of the alphabetic code
Skills of segmentation and blending
Blending
• Recognising the letter/sounds in a written word and merging the individual
phonemes together to pronounce a word.
To read unfamiliar words a child must recognise (sound out) each grapheme, not
each letter, then merge the phonemes together to make a word.
Blending
sh o pshop
Segmenting
• Identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word and writing down letters for each sound to form
the word .
Segmenting
cupc u p
Have you heard of these ?
phoneme
grapheme
segmenting
blendingSplit digraph
trigraph
digraph
Phoneme
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word.
catc a t
Phoneme
A phoneme can be represented by one or more
letters
eesh igh
Pronouncing Phonemes1. f l m n r s sh v th z
2. e p t ch h
3. b d g w qu y j
Video of pronunciation of sounds
Can you pronounce these sounds?
fm
p
ch g
Can you use the phoneme frame to work out how many phonemes there are in these words?
pig p i gchurch ch ur chboycurlthornchickdownshirt
GraphemeA grapheme is a letter or
sequence of letters that represents a
phoneme(written sounds)
f
sh igh
Some definitions:Digraph:
Two letters, which make one sound.
A consonant digraph contains 2 consonants:sh ck th ll
A vowel digraph contains at least one vowel:ai ee ar oy
How we teach phonics in school
• Letters and Sounds Phonics Programme
• Taught from Early Years – Year 2• 20 minutes daily• Phases 1 to 6• Children are grouped by phase in
their year group.
What does a Phonics lesson look like?
Revisit/review
Flashcards to practise phonemes learnt so far.
Teach Teach new phoneme
Practise Writing and reading words with that taught phoneme
Apply Read sentences with key words and new phonemes
Phase 1This phase concentrates on developing children’sspeaking and listening skills. We get children attuned to the sounds around them.
• Environmental Alliteration
• Instrumental sounds Voice Sounds
• Body Percussion Rhythm and rhyme
• Oral segmenting/blending
Workshop – JellyFish Class – Early Years
• This phase begins in Early Years• Phonics sessions are fun sessions involving lots
of speaking, listening and games• The children will have a small number of
grapheme/phoneme correspondences, blending and segmenting can start (/s/a/t/p/i/n/)
• ‘Your child will also learn several tricky words; those that cannot be sounded out
• Eg: the, to, I, go, noWorkshop – Starfish Class – Early Years
Phase 2
Phase 2
Up to 6 weeks
Activity: How many words can you make?
• With word cards:
s a t p i n m d
Make as many CVC & CV words as you can.
• The main individual letter phonemes have now been learnt, and children are reading CVC words independently – dog , chip
• CVC words follow the pattern consonant, vowel, consonant, eg: cat, dog, pet.
• Words such as tick or bell also count as CVC words; although they contain four letters, they only have three sounds
• 12 weeks Workshop – Octopus Class – Year 1
Phase 3
• Phase 3 teaches children to learn the graphemes (written sounds), made up of more than one letter, eg: ‘oa’ as in boat ‘ai’ as in train
• Your child will also learn all the letter names in the alphabet and how to form them correctly
• Read more tricky words and begin to spell some of them
• Read and write words in phrases and sentences
Phase 3
Phase Three
ch sh th ngai ee igh oaoo ar or urow oi ear airure er ir
Set 6 j v w xSet 7 y z, zz qu
12 weeks
Phase 4• This phase consolidates all the children have
learnt in the previous phases. • They will blend phonemes to read CVC words
and segment words for spelling. • They will also be able to read two syllable words
that are simple.
Workshop – Turtle Class Year 1
• Phase 5 lasts 30 weeks • Throughout Year 1 and into Year 2• Children will be taught new graphemes e.g oy ,
aw, ir and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes.
• The same phoneme can be represented in more than one way, for example: rain, may, lake
• The same grapheme can represent more than one phoneme, for example: meat, deaf, great.
Workshop – Seahorse Class Year 2
Phase 5
Phase 6• The focus is on learning spelling rules for word
endings (these are known as suffixes) The children learn how words change when you add certain letters. There are 12 different suffixes taught:
-s -es -ing -ed-er -est -y -en-ful -ly -ment -ness
Workshop – Whales Class – Year 2
phoneme
grapheme
segmenting
blendingSplit digraph
trigraph
digraph
Year 1 Phonics Test
Resources
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk
Phonics leaflet