Transcript Letters_and_Sounds_phonics_evening

Phonics Workshop
For Parents
We, like most other schools across the
country follow the ‘Letters and sounds’
program for teaching phonics.
Glossary of Terms
• Phoneme – the sound a letter or set of letters makes
• Grapheme – what the phoneme looks like written down
• Digraph – 2 letters which make 1 phoneme e.g. ch, ai,
oe
• Trigraph – 3 letters which make 1 phoneme e.g. igh,
ure, ear, air
• Split digraph – a digraph split between a letter e.g a-e
(cake) i-e (like) o-e (hope) u-e (cube)
• CVC word – vowel/consonant/vowel e.g. cat/tin/bed
• CVCC (bump) or CCVC (swim) words
• Blending – hearing the sounds coming together to say
the whole word
• Segmenting – separating the sounds for spelling
• Tricky Words – those which cannot be blended or
segmented phonetically – irregular words e.g. said, was,
could
Phase 1 – Nursery
Phase 2 – Reception
Phase 3 – Reception
Phase 4 – Reception/Year 1
Phase 5 – Year 1
Phase 6 – Year 2
We teach the children in ability sets across Key Stage 1
Phase Two
(5 weeks)
By the end of phase two children should be able to
read some vc and cvc words.
Children will also learn to read the “Tricky Words”
‘the, to, go, I and no.’
Five sets of letters are introduced – 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
Phase Three
(12 weeks)
The children are taught another 25 phonemes &
graphemes and will be taught to read 12 more ‘Tricky
Words’ by sight – he, she, me, be, we, was, you, they,
all, are, my, her.
Children continue to blend and segment CVC words
for reading and spelling.
Children will then use this knowledge to blend and
segment two syllable words (e.g. yellow, picture,
ladder)
Set 6: j, v, w, x
Set 7: y, z, zz, qu
Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng
Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar,
or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er
Phase Four
(4 – 6) weeks
By Phase 4 children are able to represent each of 42 phonemes by
a grapheme. Children will be able to blend and segment CVC
words for reading and spelling. They will also be taught to read
another 14 ‘Tricky Words’ by sight – said, have, like, so, do, some,
come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what.
Phase 4 is consolidation of children’s knowledge. Children
are encouraged to practice blending for reading and
segmenting for spelling of adjacent consonants
(CCVC/CVCC words)
Examples….
frog, snap, clap,
drop, trap, pram
hand, damp, wink,
milk, pond
Phase Five
Throughout year one
Children will broaden their knowledge of
graphemes and phonemes.
They will learn alternative pronunciations of
graphemes including split digraphs.
They will also learn to read on sight 9 more
‘Tricky Words’ – looked , called, asked, could,
oh, their, Mr, people, Mrs
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igh – ie – i-e - y (night/pie/like/spy)
ee – ea - ie (see/sea/chief)
ou – ow (cloud/crown)
ai – ay – a-e (rain/day/make)
oo – ue – u-e - ew
(food/blue/cube/chew)
oe - ow – o-e – oa
(toe/snow/rode/road)
or – au – aw (fork/launch/paw)
oo – ou (cook/would)
oi – oy (boil/toy)
The Phonics Check
In June all Year One children will be expected to
undertake a phonics check.
The aim is to check that a child is making progress
in phonics.
If a child has not reached the expected standard
we will ensure that additional support is given to
help your child progress in year 2.
The test does include non-words (“alien words”),
the reason for this is to check that they can use
their phonic knowledge to tackle
unfamiliar words.
What the Screening Check Looks
Like…….
How Can You Help Your Child?
• Encourage your child to read everyday if
possible
• Encourage them to sound out and blend
unfamiliar words for themselves
• If they have read a word incorrectly, help them to
break it down – e.g n-igh-t g-oa-t
• If you are unsure about what phase your child is
on or which phonemes they have covered in
class speak your class teacher
• There are loads of great phonics games on the
internet……….
Useful websites……..
• http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/
• http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
• http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html
• http://www.familylearning.org.uk/phonics_games.html
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/
• http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/
literacy.html#3
• http://www.mrthorne.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djz82FBYiug
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/alphablocks