Phonics Workshop27th November 2013

In school, Nursery and Reception are following the Letters and Sounds programme.

Letters and Sounds consists of six phases, covered from Nursery to Year 2.

Year 1 and Year 2 will be following Letters and Sounds from January.

LETTER NAMES AND LETTER SOUNDS/PHONEMES

When teaching phonics we always refer to the letter name and the sound or phoneme.

d M s T

PHASE 1: NURSERY 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 2: RECEPTIONSet 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

PHASE 3: END OF RECEPTION/BEGINNING OF YEAR 1

Set 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 4: YEAR 1/2This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases.

PHASE 5: YEAR 1/2Children will be taught new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes.

Vowel digraphs:, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au

Split digraphs: a_e - cake u_e - hugei_e – kite o_e - hope

PHASE 6: YEAR 2The 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

YOU TRY…

queenqu ee n

IN CONTEXTUsing sounds when writing.

The queen has been to see the bee.

The fat cat sat on the rat’s hat.

BLENDINGBuilding words from phonemes to

read.

c a tcat

YOU TRY…

sh ee psheep

IN CONTEXTUsing the sounds when reading.

The sheep has been sleeping.

The cat sat on the fat mat by the bat.

TRICKY WORDSCannot be sound out.

said like was the come saw were

Look and Say Words

WHAT DOES A PHONICS LESSON LOOK LIKE?

Revisit/review

Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far.

Teach Teach new phoneme airPractice Game: Buried treasure

air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair, vair, sair, thair

Apply Read/write

Read captions:The goat had a long beard.The quack was right in his ear.

RESOURCESwww.phonicsplay.co.uk

YEAR 1 PHONICS TEST

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Enjoy learning and growing together!