PARENT PHONICS SUPPORT PACK

In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme.

Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource which consists of

six phases.

We also use Jolly Phonics to teach each sound. With every

sound there is an action. These are demonstrated in the

front of the children’s reading records.

Phonics at Hardy Mill

Phase 1: developing speaking and listening skills (Nursery and

beginning of Reception).

Phase 2: learning the first 19 phonemes.

Phase 3: learning 26 phonemes including the remaining single

phonemes as well as digraphs and digraphs.

Phase 4: application of phase 3 in multi syllable words

Phase 5: alternative phonemes for example split digraphs.

Phase 6: word specific reading and spellings.

Phases

• Phoneme – sounds which letters make for example ‘m’.

• Graphemes – what the sound looks like.

• Segmenting – breaking a word up into sounds.

• Blending – putting sounds together to hear the word (reading).

• Digraph – two letters that make one sounds e.g. ‘ch’ ‘ai’.

• Trigraph – three letters that make one sound e.g. ‘igh’ ‘ear’.

Terminology

a b c d e f g h i

j k l m n o p q r

s t u v w x y z

ch th sh ee oo ai igh oa ar

or ur ow oi ear air ure er

I go to the he she me we be

was said my by went you into are like

Reception word mat

Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4I he my sogo she by doto we said herthe me was oneno be they have

into like there

Reception tricky words

cat pop pit rat pip sun fig updog top log sad on run and itman at dad pin zap tap am is

peg hug mum map less sink spot lap

pin sat ran land pig bit cop back

top sit stop duck set sack cup red

mess off hand mat mat sip ring jog

Phase 2 words for reading

chip mix zip van jam shop ring rain train

sheep light look boot road this then bath chain

feel bright hook oak snow cow stairs ear hear

start short coin burn blow brown hair letter chop

car star boil turn pure sure better oil zoom

feet steel ship right might yellow tree shark owl

Phase 3 words for reading

Phase 3 games

Cut out and children to read coins and sort into fake and treasure.

Children to use highlighters to underline ‘igh’ sound when reading.

Phase 4 words for reading

Manchester stairs chopping shook letter skirt

windmill yellow stink shorter hopping handstand

longer jumper earring swimming cushion purple

beetroot finger running carpet scarlett turnip

cardigan shopping picture elbow chest jacket

ai ee igh oa ow oo or ch shoi ar qu ur er ure ear air thay ou ie ea oy ir ue aw whew oe au ey a-e e-e i-e o-e u-e

I go to the no he she we memy by are all they her so do theresome come when what out were their oh littlebe said was Mr Mrs asked looked called could

Year One word mat

Set 1 (recap all Reception)

Set 2 Set 3

so come theirdo some lookedher mr askedone mrs calledhave what peoplethere little could

were wouldwhen shouldoutoh

Year One tricky words

Children can cut and write their own real and nonsense words to test adults.

The phonics screening check is taken individually by all children in Year 1 in England, and is usually taken in June. It is designed to give teachers and parents information on how your child is progressing in phonics. It will help to identify whether your child needs additional support at this stage so that they do not fall behind in this vital early reading skill.

Children are asked to read 40 words based on their phonetic skills they have learnt in Reception and Year One. These include real words for example ‘chop’ ‘coins’ as well as nonsense words for example ‘vuss’ ‘quop’ nonsense or ‘alien’ words are included in the check specifically to assess whether your child can decode a word using phonics skills and not their memory.

Year One Phonics Screening Check

To develop the love of reading, in addition to using our school reading scheme, it is also important to share a variety of other reading materials, which you may have at home, this includes fairy tales, comics, fantasy stories, magazines and non-fiction texts. The idea is to make reading fun! Here are some helpful tips to ensure your child benefits most from reading. Before reading the book you could discuss the title, book cover and blurb, then you could ask questions such as:What do you think the story is about? What makes you think that? Who is the author? Have you read a book by this author before?In addition to this, you could predict and discuss whilst reading the book by asking questions such as: What has happened so far? What might happen next? Who are the characters so far?What do the characters look like? What do you know about them? What do you think about that? After reading by discussing parts of the story. Which part did you like best? Are there any parts you didn’t enjoy? Did you like the story? Can you retell the story?

Reading tips

Below are some tasks which you and your child could complete at home after reading. • Write a new title for the book. • Write a new ending for the story. • Draw a poster advertising your book. • Draw a picture of a character in your book and write down

some words to describe them. • Draw a picture of your favourite part in the book. • Write a caption underneath, explaining why you like this

part. • Write down any new words you have found in your book.

Write a letter to a character in the book.

Comprehension based writing activities

Phonics play website

Twinkl app for Ipad

Resources

Alphablocks on Cbeebies

Mr Thorne does phonics (Youtube)

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/

Resources