Transcript Synthetic Phonics – What does it mean? Teaching the letter sounds

Reception: How We Teach
Reading
1. Phonics
2. High Frequency Words
Do you see this letter? Did you know it
has a name AND a sound?
•Each letter has a SOUND and a
NAME
•We teach the letter SOUNDS not
the names
•We will teach the names later
Synthetic Phonics – What does it
mean?
Teaching the letter
sounds.
This helps you to read.
cat
C-a-t
If you blend the sounds together,
they make the word ‘cat’. If you
try to blend the letter names, it
doesn’t help you hear the word.
Video of a lady making the
phonemes
• Please look at the following website. It has
a video of a lady saying all the letter
sounds.
• http://www.teachfind.com/nationalstrategies/letters-and-sounds-articulationphonemes-vowels-and-consonants
• Or search on www.youtube.com for
“articulation of phonemes”
• We are working on putting the video
straight on this website.
Phases
• In Nursery, children learn Phase One which teaches
them listening skills. They need to have good listening
skills before starting Phase Two.
• In Reception, children will learn Phase Two and Three.
Here they will learn the letter sounds and use them to
read and write.
• They will also learn tricky (high frequency words) off by
heart (we will talk about this in a minute).
In Reception
• In Reception, we are starting Phase 2 this
week!
• In Phase 2, your child will start to learn 2
letter sounds (and 2 high frequency words)
a week.
• They will get sent home on keyrings so
you can help your child learn them.
• Please help them learn them each week
because there are LOTS to learn!
First letter sounds will be...
•s
•a
Letters go home in this order
How many words can you make with these
letters?
satipnmd
This is what a text looks like to
a child at the beginning stages
of reading.
When we teach children to read, we tell
them to: “Look at the letter and make the
sound.”
pin
tin
This is called blending or sounding out.
Synthetic Phonics
At first we will
concentrate on simple
sound to letter
correspondence.
This is when a phoneme
is represented by a
single letter as in the
word /m/ /a/ /t/.
Fast!
Then we will concentrate the more difficult code
such as one phoneme (sound) represented by 2
letters.
sh ch qu ck ng
We use those phonemes in these words:
ring king shop chop
thing quiz ....and others!
At the same time as learning to blend the
sounds to read your child will also learn to break
down (segmenting) a word to write.
3 sounds (phonemes)
(Do you know what the three
letter sounds (phonemes)
are?)
But there are some irregular,
tricky words!
The high frequency words….
• We need to learn these by heart
• Not only are they high frequency but are usually also
difficult to decode (sound out)
• Sometimes you can sound them out but we still want
the children to know them instantly
was said
me the they
We will also send home 2 high
frequency (tricky) words each
week.
Please help your child to recognise them by
showing your child the word and asking
them to say the word straight away.
When your child can recognise
them, they can start to write them.
Now having worked on these
skills the child can begin to
decode and recognise the text.
t
h
o
e
n
c
t
a
h
e
s
t
m
t
a
a
t
How can you help?
 By pronouncing the phonemes in the correct way. See:
www.getreadingright.com/Pronouncephonemes.htm and the
previous links.
 Your child will be getting 2 letter sounds and 2 high frequency
words a week on their keyrings so you know what they’re learning.
 Show your child the letters and words and help them practise
saying and them. They need to learn to recognise them by heart.
 Encourage them to read any books using these skills. They look at
the letter and say the sound. If there is a tricky (high frequency
word) in the book and it is one from their keyring, ask them if they
know it.
Reading for Pleasure
• We do want children to love and enjoy books. There is
no point them knowing how to read if they don’t want to
read. Keep on having a cosy bedtime story with your
child before they go to sleep. Talk about the characters
and their favourite part of the story. Read to them,
making the characters have different and exciting voices.
This will keep children curious about books and stories.
If they can recognise words during a bed time story, then
that should be celebrated but don’t let it stop you from
enjoying the fun and adventure of a story with your child.
• Decoding the text is not the only part of reading.
• Enjoy!
Finally...
If you have any questions,
please ask a member of
staff.
Remember: We are
learning the letter
sounds not names
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