How does your child learn to read?

PhonicsWord Recognition

Context Clues

phonics

• A small dog went for a walk.

• 26 letters to make 44 sounds • Listening – identifying & break into

sounds (decoding)• Putting it together again• See / read it on board• Practice writing it (encoding)

Word recognition

• t

• They went to town.

• Tricky words - word shape,

• Look at first letter or blend – onset and rime

Context clue

– They went __________ in Peterborough on _______ .

• Grammatical knowledge – knowing what kind of word could be in a place

• Picture clues

How synthetic phonics is taught

• 6 phases• Phase 1 - listening & making sounds

(Nursery)• Phase 2 – 19 letters – segmenting / blending -

– about 5 sounds a week • s,a,t,p,i,n / m,d,g,o,k / ck,e,u,r,h,b / f.ff,l, ll,ss

identifying& break into sounds, count out phonemes

• Phase 3 – 25 Digraphs – about3 sounds a week• ch,sh,th,ng /ai,ei,igh/oa,oo,ar/

or,ur,ow,oi/ear,air,ure,er

How synthetic phonics is taught

• Phase 4 – blend consonants• Ten tent, men mend, pot spot, rip trip• Phase 5 – more graphemes &

alternative pronunciation - ay day, oy boy, ou out, oe toe, ir girl, ie tie, ue blue, ea eat, aw saw, au Paul wh when, ph photo, ew new,split digraphs (a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e)

• Phase 6 – develop fluency in reading, spelling (end of Y2)