phonics meeting for parents. why teach phonics? the ability to read and write well is a vital skill...
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Why teach phonics?
• The ability to read and write well is a vital skill for all children, paving the way for an enjoyable and successful school experience.
• Phonics helps children to develop good reading and spelling skills
e.g. cat can be sounded out for reading and spelling • We use a scheme called letters and sounds.
Some Definitions
A phoneme
This is the smallest unit of sound in a word.
How many phonemes can you hear in cat?
A grapheme
These are the spelling choices that make a ai ay.
For example the sound ai can be spelt ai or ay
A sound with 2 letters to make is called a digraph
A sound with 3 letters to make it is called a trigraph e.g igh
How to say the sounds
•Saying the sounds correctly with your child is extremely important
•The way we say sound may well be different from when we were at school
•We say the shortest form of the sounds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwJx1NSineE1.45
Tricky Words• Words that are not phonically de-codable and we call these
tricky words. • Children have to know these by sight. e.g.
was, the, I…
Phonics lessons
• These are taught as a discrete session daily for about 30 minutes. We teach phonics in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 in this way.
• Phonic skills are incorporated across the curriculum and across all year groups.
• Useful resources to buy are Jolly phonics, Alpha blocks and there are a list of links on the website.
Lesson formatOur phonics lessons follow the same format:
• Revise: The children will revise previous learning.
• Teach: New phonemes or high frequency or tricky words will be taught.
• Practice: The children will practise the new learning by reading and/or writing the words.
• Apply: The children will apply their new learning by reading or writing sentences.
Phonic learning is fun!The children learn and practise their phonemes in lots of fun
ways:• Sound talking and rhyming.• Playing games – table games or interactive games on the
computer.• Using phoneme frames, “sound buttons” and whiteboards to
spell words.• Sorting phonemes.• Making words with phonemes.• Being phoneme “detectives”.• Reading and writing sentences. Silly sentences are great
fun!
How can you help?• Sing an alphabet song together• Play ‘I spy’• Continue to play with magnetic letters, using some two-
grapheme (letter) combinations, eg: r-ai-n = rain blending for reading
rain = r-ai-n segmenting for spelling• Praise your child for trying out words• Look at tricky words • Look for phonic games in shops (Early Learning Centre) and
online• Play pairs with words and pictures