22nd September 2015

EARLY READING...

Looking at words will initially be like looking at patterns of shapes on a page.

What is phonics and how can I help my child at home?

PHONICS IS ALL ABOUT USING …

Learning phonics will help your child to become a good reader and writer

skills for reading and

spelling+

knowledge of the

alphabet

In school, we follow the Letters and

Sounds programme. Letters and

Sounds is a phonics resource

published by the Department for

Education and Skills which consists

of six phases.

Phoneme Graphemes Segmenting and blending  Digraph Trigraph Split digraph 

TERMINOLOGY

Phonemes: The smallest units of sound that are found within a word

Grapheme: The spelling of the sound e.g. Th

Diagraph: Two letters that make one sound when read

Trigraphs: Three letters that make one sound

CVC: Stands for consonant, vowel, consonant.

Segmenting is breaking up a word into its sounds.

Blending : Putting the sounds together to read a word

Tricky words: Words that cannot easily be decoded.

PHASE 1 There are 7 aspects with 3 strands.

A1 – Environmental

A2 – Instrumental sounds

A3 – Body Percussion

A4 – Rhythm and rhyme

A5 – Alliteration

A6 – Voice sounds

A7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

HOW CAN I HELP AT HOME?

• Nursery rhymes, songs, action rhymes.

• Add sound effects to stories.

• Music and movement: rhythm, guess the instrument.

• Talking about sounds: listening walks, loud/soft, high/low, silly noises.

• Speaking & listening: silly sentences “Happy Harry hops”, mimics, animal sounds.

PHASE 2Set 1: s, a, t, pSet 2: i, n, m, dSet 3: g, o, c, kSet 4: ck, e, u, rSet 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

SAYING THE SOUNDSSounds should be articulated clearly and precisely.

http://www.teachfind.com/national-strategies/letter-and-sounds-%E2%80%93-articulation-phonemes-vowels-and-consonants

WE TEACH USING JOLLY PHONICS... We teach the letter sound and use a

mnemonic or action with a song to help the children remember.

PHASE 3Set 6: j, v, w, xSet 7: y, z, zz, quConsonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng

Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er

PHASE 4This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases.

PHONICS WORDSYour children will learn to use the term:

Segmenting

Children need to be able to hear a whole word and say every sound that they hear .

SEGMENTINGBreaking down words for spelling.

catc a t

SEGMENTING

Queenqu ee n

PHONICS WORDSYour children will learn to use the term:

Blending

Children need to be able to hear the separate sounds in a word and then blend them together to say the whole word .

BLENDINGBuilding words from phonemes to

read.

c a tcat

BLENDING

Qu ee nqueen

HOW CAN I HELP AT HOME?

Oral blending: the robot game

Children need to practise hearing a series of spoken sounds and merging them together to make a word.

For example, you say ‘b-u-s’, and your child says ‘bus’.

“What’s in the box?” is a great game for practising this skill.

WHAT DOES A PHONICS LESSON LOOK LIKE?

Revisit/review

Alphabet song (Mr Thorne!)Flashcards/phoneme fans to practice phonemes learnt so far/moving games!

Teach Teach new phoneme ‘a’

Practice Games eg Buried treasure/messy play/magnetic letters/boards/shopping lists

Apply Read/write captions:A man sat on a pin.

RESOURCES

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk

RESOURCES

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html

RESOURCES

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/3-5-years/letters-and-sounds

RESOURCES...

There are lots of fantastic resources online.

Mr Thorne and Geraldine the Giraffe are firm favourites!

Twinkl phonics is a great ipad app.

HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS... Word sets – practise at home; reinforced in

class. Changed every week if known. Please make notes in the back of the Phonics book. Lots of these words cannot be sounded out, they need to be learnt by sight eg was, said.

DON’T FORGET…

Learning to read should be fun for both children and parents.

YEAR 1 PHONICS TEST

SUMMARY... Phonics...sound books.

HFW bingo games – notes in back of phonics books; changed every week if known.

Reading books – changed Mondays and Thursdays if reading diaries have been signed.

Any questions.....