Transcript Phonics Training for Parents

Phonics
Teaching Phase 4 and 5
phonics
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What is phonics?
A way of teaching children to read.
Children are taught to recognise the
sounds (phonemes) different letters
(graphemes) make.
b
a
t
They are then taught to blend the
phonemes together to read the
whole word.
bat
Digraph – grapheme with
two letters.
Often letters are read together
to make one sound (phoneme).
We say 2 letters, 1 sound.
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ai
This helps us to read:
• pain
• again
• hail
A trigraph has 3 letters.
igh
ear
air
We teach children to segment
(break up) words into phonemes
to spell them.
pain p ai n
We use our fingers to
segment.
We count out phonemes on fingers to
help children identify how many
graphemes are needed to spell the
word.
sharp sh ar p
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Phonics Jargon
• Phoneme – the sound a letter(s) make.
• Grapheme – what the letter(s) looks like.
• Digraph – a grapheme with two letters e.g.
ai
• Trigraph – a grapheme with three letters
e.g igh
• Blend – putting the phonemes together to
read.
• Segmenting – breaking the word up into
phonemes to spell.
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TRICKY WORDS
• Tricky words, now called Common
Exception Words, should be learnt by
sight.
• friend, there, the
Children are also taught to
blend adjacent consonants.
black, flat, strip,
chest, hulk
Children are taught to
read polysyllabic words
by clapping the syllables.
helpdesk, playground,
driftwood
Year One
Children are taught to recognise and use
alternative ways of pronouncing the
graphemes (what the letters look like) and
spelling the phonemes (what the letters
sound like) already taught.
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Same letters, different
sounds
mean
bread
read
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Same sound, different
letters
may
make
pain
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Split vowel digraphs:
a–e
e–e
u–e
i–e
o-e
p ie spells pie.
To make pine we split up the
Vowel digraph ie with n.
They help us to read:
• same
• cone
• pine
• Pete
• use
Phonics Screening Check
• 40 words
• 20 real words
• 20 pseudo words
• Week beginning 15th June
• Pass mark has been 32/40
• Children not achieving pass mark
will be given extra support in
Year 2 and retested.
Pseudo or Nonsense words
They are included in the check
to assess if children can decode
words using phonic skills and
not their memory.
vol
Shog
foid
bulm
yewn
tabe
thrand
strad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPJ_ZEBh1Bk
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Questions
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