Phonics Parents Workshop

November 2013

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.

1) What is a phoneme?2) How many phonemes are in the word ‘strap’? 3) What is a digraph? 4) Give an example of a consonant digraph.5) What is a CVC word? 6) Give an example.7) What is a ‘trigraph’? 8) Give an example9) How many phonemes are in the word ‘twenty’?

A phonics quiz

1) What is a phoneme? A unit of sound.2) How many phonemes are in the word ‘strap’? 53) What is a digraph? Two letters which make one

sound.4) Give an example of a consonant diagraph. ch sh ll th5) What is a CVC word? consonant-vowel-consonant6) Give an example 7) What is a ‘trigraph’? Three letters which make one

sound.8) Give an example igh9) How many phonemes are in the word ‘twenty’? 6

A phonics quiz

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.

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

p i g s h e e ps h i p c a rb o y c o wf i l l w h i p s o n g f o rd a y m i s s w h i z z h u f f

CVC words: Which of these are CVC words?

CVC words: p i g sheep s h i p c a r X b o y X c o w X f i l l w h i p s o n g f o r X d a y X m i s s

w h i z z huff

Examples of: CCVC, CVCC, CCCVC and CCVCC

b l a c k s t r o n g

f e l t b l a n k

s p o o n c r i e d

n e s t

Examples of: CCVC, CVCC, CCCVC and CCVCC

b l a c k s t r o n gc c v c c c c v c

f e l t b l a n kc v c c c c v c c

s p o o n c r i e dc c v c c c v c

n e s t c v c c

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.

PHASE 5 Children will be taught new graphemes and

alternative pronunciations for these graphemes.

Developing automaticity (A child can read words with 100% accuracy, but if those words are not read rapidly enough to get a complete thought in working memory within the 10 second constraint, comprehension will be difficult).

Vowel 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

PHASE 6The focus is on learning spelling rules for suffixes.

-s -es -ing -ed-er -est -y -en-ful -ly -ment -ness

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

YEAR 1 PHONICS TEST

Pass score 32 out of 40Retake at the end of year 2.Read a mixture of real and

pseudo words.

WHAT DOES A PHONICS LESSON LOOK LIKE?

Revisit/review Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far.

Teach Teach new phoneme a_e

Practice Buried treasureglake, came, make, made, stame, escake, cake, take, afraze, nade.

Apply Read captions:It will amaze me if you can escape from this maze.When the Romans came to invade, they made great long roads.Can a snake have a race with a whale in a lake?

A typical phonics lesson…

RESOURCESwww.phonicsplay.co.uk – some games

are free.

Pocket Phonics - £1.99 at the app store. It goes through all the phases and

segments and blends.

SOME ACTIVITIES…

Courgettes – adding –ed sheet.Cauliflowers – Sentences board

game.Leeks – Split digraph dice game.

Peppers – phoneme spotting.Onions – IPads – pocket phonics