Transcript Phonics presentation

Do you want to know more about your child’s journey towards
becoming a READER?
Aims of this morning
We will provide an insight into how and what we teach:
Phonics sounds.
Tricky words.
Reading stages.
Tips on how to help at home.
We follow the Letters and Sounds
scheme
• This is a six-stage Teaching programme
• We teach phonics EVERY DAY
• We differentiate the learning according to
children’s needs and across the whole
year group
• We link phonics to all our other activities
throughout the day
• We try to make phonics practical and fun!
The six phases:
• Phase 1: Environmental sounds,
instrumental sounds, body
percussion, rhythm and rhyme,
alliteration, voice sounds, oral
blending and segmenting
The six phases:
Phase 2: Split into 5 sets
• 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
We teach the sounds with the actions and then
encourage children to write it in the air or on the
floor in pre-cursive script.
The six phases:
Phase 3: includes the last two sets
• Set 6: j, v, w, x
• Set 7: y, z, zz, qu
Phase 3 also introduces the graphemes:
ch, sh, ng, th, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur,
ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er
The six phases:
Phase 4: Teaches reading and spelling of
words with adjacent consonants.
We call these CVCC or CCVC words.
Phase 5/6: looks at alternative spellings of
phonemes such as ‘a’, ‘ai’, ‘ay’, ‘a_e’.
High frequency words and tricky
words.
• There are 45 High Frequency words that
we teach the children in Foundation Stage
• We teach children to ‘sound-out’ words
phonetically.
• Tricky words are words that cannot be
‘sounded-out’, they just need to be
learned. For example ‘said’, ‘no’, ‘to’, ‘the’
A typical Phonics lesson
Phonics lesson are split into four parts:
• Revise – go through all the sounds they already
know and high frequency words
• Teach – teach a new sound and/or High
frequency word
• Practice – playing a game such as ‘sound
buttons’, ‘buried treasure’, ‘phoneme frame’, ‘full
circle’ and interactive games on the computer
• Apply – Using the new sounds and words to
read or write a caption or sentence.
In the first part of the lesson, phonemes
are revised.
The children are taught an action to
accompany a new phoneme.
We have letters, words and sounds displayed
around the classrooms.
The children are learning to write the sounds in
pre-cursive script
We use computer games to help children to
read.
Children are taught to segment to spell words, and write the separate
phonemes.
How can you help your
child at home?
• Look at print in the environment, eg. road signs,
signs in shops etc. See if they can spot different
sounds in the words.
• Play “I spy” games, thinking of initial sounds of
words.
• Use letter cards or magnetic letters to make up
3-letter words (CVC). Sound out each letter and
then blend to read.
• Say a 3-letter word (CVC) and ask your child to
write the word or use magnetic letters to make
the word.
Reading levels
• Children usually start on Lilac level which are non-word
books. We encourage children to tell the story from the
pictures, using story-language. We talk about characters
and settings and the types of books we are reading.
• The scheme then moves on to:
Pink, red, yellow, blue, green, orange, turquoise, purple,
gold, white, lime
• Children practise their reading books at least twice a
week with an adult through ‘Reading Workshops’. If they
are ready to change their books they can choose their
own books from the box.