Phonics: How can I support Phonics: How can I support my child at home?my child at home?

• environmental sounds• instrumental sounds• body percussion• Rhythm and rhyme• Alliteration• Voice sounds• Oral blending and segmenting

Each aspect is divided into three strands.

• Tuning into sounds (auditory discrimination)• Listening and remembering sounds (auditory memory and sequencing)• Talking about sounds (developing vocabulary and language comprehension).

Activities within the seven aspects are designed to help children:

• listen attentively;• enlarge their vocabulary;• speak confidently to adults and other children;• discriminate phonemes;• reproduce audibly the phonemes they hear, in order, all through the word;• use sound-talk to segment words into phonemes.

Where does it all begin?

Children need to opportunity to hear and say sounds every day

• Make your voice go down a slide• Make your voice bounce like a ball• Sound really disappointed• Hiss like a snake• Keep everyone quiet• Gently moo like a cow• Look astonished • Be a steam train• Buzz like a bumble bee• Be a clock

1. A phoneme can be spelled using one letter: c-a-t / d-o-g / s-w-i-m

2. A phoneme can be spelled using 2 to 4 letters: h-i-ll / sh-i-p / d-augh-t-er

3. A phoneme can be spelled in multiple ways: d-ay / t-r-ai-n / l-a-k-e / b-r-ea-k / s-t-r-aigh-t

4. A spelling can represent more than one phoneme: g-r-ea-t / c-l-ea-n / b-r-ea-d (code overlap)

Letter progression (one set per week)• 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• http://www.midsomernorton.bathnes.sch.uk/phonics.htm

• ActivityHow would you sound talk these cvc

words?henmog datsim nup

Up to 12 weeks

• Set 6: j v w x*• Set 7: y z, zz qu**The sounds traditionally taught for the letters x and qu (/ks/ and /kw/) are

both two phonemes, but children do not need to be taught this, at this stage as it does not affect how the letters are used.

Graphemes• ch chip ar farm• sh shop or for• th thin/then ur hurt• ng ring ow cow• ai rain oi coin• ee feet ear dear• igh night air fair• oa boat ure sure• oo boot/look er corner

• log• clock• rain• stump

Tricky or not?

Reading at Home• Sound Books• Ebooks and Reading Scheme• Key words • www.bugclub.co.uk