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Phonics Workshop

Overview

• What is phonics?

• Phonics Phases

• Process of a phonics lesson

• Phonics Screening

• How you can help

What is phonics?

• Letters & Sounds

• There are 44 phonemes (smallest units of sound) in the English language.

• Phonics helps to identify the sound that each letter makes to be able to read and write.

• How do you say them?

• Sound Pronunciation

http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/resources/sound-pronunciation-guide/

Phase 1• Focuses on developing children speaking and listening skills

• Lays the foundations for the next phases

• It supports children to:

1. listen attentively

2. enlarge their vocabulary

3. speak confidently to adults and other children

4. discriminate phonemes

5. reproduce audibly the phonemes they hear, in order, all through the word

6. use sound-talk to segment words into phonemes.

Games you can play

• Listening walks inside and outside (different times of the day and in different places)

• Sound lotto

• Pairs with picture cards

• Rhyming games: I saw a dog as big as a frog, I saw a cat that sat on the (mat/bat)

• Games with little figures • Describe one of the figure e.g.it has horns, it is brown and it has 4 legs – what

is it? What noise does it make?

Phase 2•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, ss•Begins with sound recognition•Children start to learn how to blend the sounds to say the word (reading)

Blending (combining the sounds)

Building words from phonemes to read.

How many sounds are in this word?

cat


Now blend the sounds to read the words.

cat


Adding Phoneme buttons (sound buttons) really helps.

catcat

Segmenting (separate the sounds)

• Alongside blending the children learn to segment the words which supports spelling.

d o g


This can be put into a phoneme frame which helps to separate each sound .

What’s in the box?

Phase 3•Set 6: j, v, w, x•Set 7: y, z, zz, qu•Consonant digraphs: (A digraph is 2 letters that make

a sound)ch, sh, th, ng•Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er



shed


Add phoneme buttons and blend the phonemes together.

shed



coa t



night


Alongside blending the children learn to segment the words which supports

spelling.

r ai n


This can be put into a phoneme frame which helps to separate each sound .

Who can cross the river?

rain “Who can cross the river, who can cross the river, who can cross the river and reach the

other side?”

“…………………has crossed the river and reached the other

side.”

Phase 4

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

•The words are longer e.g.• String, bench, stench, snail

Beware!

• The consonants are single units of sounds:

spring

Kim’s Game

Kim’s Game

sweets

Phase 5

• Children will learn new graphemes (letters) and phonemes (sounds).• For example: they would have learnt ‘ai’ as in rain but will now learn that

it can be spelt ‘ay’ as in play

• Digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au

• Split digraphs: a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e

Split digraphs

a-e

Split digraphs

cake

Alternate pronunciation

• As soon as the first part of Phase 5 is established you can focus on alternate pronunciations

•i, o, c, g, u•ow, ie, ea, er•a, y, ch, ou

Ways to support

• Children to read a word with original phoneme

milk

Ways to support

• Children to read a word with alternate pronunciation

find• Which ‘i’ sounds correct in this word?

Activities – Phoneme Spotter story

Tom was very happy. It was the weekend and he was off to the beach with Mum and Dad, his puppy and baby Pete.

“Help me pack the green bag,” said Mum. “We need sun cream

and lots to eat.”

Tom got into his seat in the back of the car and the puppy got

on his knee. Pete held his toy sheep. Off they went. Beep! Beep!

Activities – Phoneme Spotter story

Tom was very happy. It was the weekend and he was off to the beachwith Mum and Dad, his puppy and baby Pete.

“Help me pack the green bag,” said Mum. “We need sun cream

and lots to eat.”

Tom got into his seat in the back of the car and the puppy got

on his knee. Pete held his toy sheep. Off they went. Beep! Beep!

Activities – Best Bet

ee ea e-e y ie e ey

Within each phase

•High Frequency words (key words)•Flash cards•Put words around the house•Make the children put them in sentence

Within each phase

Tricky words

looked

Within each phase

looked

Two / three syllable words

thir/teen

Phase 6

More emphasis on spelling•Past tense•Adding suffixes ‘ed’ to root words•Spelling patterns for adding ‘ing’

Spelling Rules

care

Spelling Rules

nothing

double the final consonant

drop the e

Learning the difficult bits in words

could

Learning the difficult bits in words

• Read it

• Say it

• Identify the tricky bit

• Make up a rhyme or draw a picture

• Think of word that rhyme

• Write it

could

Other spelling strategies

•Syllables•Analogy•Base word

Other skills

•Using a dictionary•Using cursive writing•Proof reading

Phase 2 - 5

What does a phonics lesson look like?

Year 1 Phonics Screening

• The children will be asked to ‘sound out’ a word and blend the sounds together. e.g. d-o-g – dog

• The check will consist of 40 words and non-words;

• Children will be told if the word is a real or ‘alien’ word, with a corresponding alien image.

What will the children do?

• Every Year 1 child in the country will be taking the statutory phonics screening check in the same week.

• The focus of the check is to provide evidence of children’s decoding and blending skills, not to test their vocabulary.

What will the children do?•Children will be asked to ‘sound out’ a word and

blend the sounds together.eg d-o-g - dog

• The focus of the check is to see which sounds the children know. They will prove this by reading some real and some made up ‘nonsense’ words.

THIS IS NOT A READING TEST

Word Examples

How will it be administered?

• Teachers will conduct all of the screening checks with the children;

• The children will complete the check one to one in a quiet area of the school;

• It can be done in ‘one go’ or in shorter ‘bites’;

• We are not permitted to indicate to the children at the time whether they have correctly sounded out and blended the word.

Results

• Year 1 will be scored against a national standard (threshold yet to be determined by DfE)

• Last year the pass rate was 32 out of 40

• In the summer, we will inform you whether your child has reached this standard or is yet to reach the standard.

• If your child’s score falls below the national standard they are required to re-take the Phonics Screening Check in Year 2.

When will it happen?

The screening will take place throughout the week beginning:

Monday 11th June

How can you help?

Encourage them to use their phonics skills when reading.

Children can practise their phonics by playing games online. The children particularly like -

* Buried Treasure

* Picnic on Pluto

www.phonicsplay.co.uk

http://www.phonicsplay.coo.uk/

How can you help?Encourage your child to ‘sound out’ when reading or writing.

Focusing particularly on spotting more unusual sound patterns.

Eg

Digraph- 2 letters making one sound

cow - ow

Trigraphs- 3 letters making one sound

Night - igh

Split digraphs- 2 vowels with a consonant in between. Used to be known as the magic e!

spine - i-_e

How can you help?

REMEMBER: Phonics is not the only way you become a good reader. Continue to read with your child each night and

encourage them to:

Sound out, re-read to check it makes sense, and use pictures for clues.

Ask questions about the book;

And most importantly ENJOY READING!

Useful Definitions

PHONEME - smallest unit of sound

GRAPHEME - written representation of the sound

DIGRAPH - two letters making one sound e.g ee

TRIGRAPH - three letters making one sound e.g igh

SPLIT DIGRAPH - where two letters are not adjacent e.g a-e as in make

Useful websiteshttps://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/

https://learn.readwithfonics.com/school/phonics-games

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/

http://more2.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f&redir=www

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/

https://learn.readwithfonics.com/school/phonics-games

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/

http://more2.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f&redir=www

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