Phonics Workshop19th November 2013

OVERVIEW Why phonics?

‘Letters and Sounds’ and how it is taught within school

Government Phonics Screening Check

Practical ideas for helping your child with phonics at home

WHAT IS PHONICS? Phonics is a way of teaching children to read skilfully and

quickly

They are taught how to Recognise the sound that each individual letter makes Identify the sounds different letter combinations make Blend sounds together from left to right

Children can then use this knowledge to de-code new words they hear or see. Research shows when phonics is taught in a structured way starting from the easiest sounds to most complex, it is the most effective way of teaching young children to read.

In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds

programme. Letters and Sounds is a phonics

resource published by the Department for

Education which consists of six phases.

AT LYNDHURST

AT LYNDHURST Daily sessions of phonics

Daily literacy lessons

Daily guided reading sessions Read with teacher Follow up activity Reading for pleasure Reading topic books Phonics activities or games

Children are given the opportunity to apply and consolidate their learning

Phoneme – The smallest unit of sound in a word Grapheme – What we write to represent the sound Segmenting – Breaking words down into individual sounds

Blending – Recognising sounds and blending to read Digraph – Two letters which make one sound Trigraph – three letters which make one sound Split digraph – two letters split making one sound

TERMINOLOGY

EARLY YEARS Phase 1 – preparing the ground (listening, body

percussion, voice sounds, instrumental sounds, alliteration, oral blending and segmenting, learning letter names, rhythm and rhyme)

Phase 2 – developing knowledge of common consonants and vowels, blending and segmenting CVC words. Learning to read some tricky words.

Phase 3 – developing knowledge of one grapheme for each of the 44 phonemes, blending and segmenting CVC words. Learning to read and spell tricky words.

READY FOR YEAR ONE Set 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, ssSet 6: j, v, w, xSet 7: y, z, zz, quConsonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ngVowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi,

ear, air, ure, er

PHASE 4 - START OF YEAR 1

This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in previous phases

PHASE 5Children will be taught new graphemes and

alternative pronunciations for these graphemes.

Vowel digraphs: ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au

Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

SEGMENTINGBreaking down words for spelling.

catc a t

SEGMENTING

Queenqu ee n

BLENDINGBuilding words from phonemes to

read.

c a tcat

BLENDING

Qu ee nqueen

HFW & TRICKY WORDS For children to develop fluency when reading they need to be

able to read high frequency words on sight.

These are words that are mostly not de-codable and need to be recognised as a whole e.g said, they, was come

These are taught as tricky words.

Children develop their ability to do this over time.

YEAR 2 - PHASE 6• During this phase children become fluent readers and increasingly accurate spellers

• Children decode words silently and quickly and read hundreds of words automatically

• At this point, comprehension strategies are developed so that children clarify meaning, ask and answer questions about the texts they are reading, construct mental images during reading and summarise what they have read.

• In spelling children are introduced to the adding of suffixes , prefixes and how to spell longer words.

WHAT DOES A PHONICS LESSON LOOK LIKE?

Revisit/review

Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far.

Teach Teach new phoneme air

Practice Buried treasure Air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair, vair, sair, thair

Apply Read captions:The goat had a long beard.The quack was right in his ear.

PHONICS SCREENING CHECK – YEAR 1• In June all Year One children will be expected to

undertake a phonics check.• The aim is to check that a child is making progress in

phonics.• If a child has not reached the expected standard we

will ensure that additional support is given to help your child progress in year 2.

YEAR 1 PHONICS CHECK

SUPPORTIn class – differentiation

Small group activities

1-2-1 precision teaching

Specialist support

RESOURCES

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk

http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/article/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics

http://www.galacticphonics.com/