Transcript PHONICS IN kS1 - Peartree Spring

PHONICS IN KS1
Miss O’Boyle
Mrs Chowdhury
WHAT IS PHONICS?
 It's
all about sounds. There are 44 sounds in the English
language, which we put together to form words.
 Some are represented by one letter, like 't', and some by
two or more, like 'ck' in duck and 'air' in chair.
 Children are taught the sounds first, then how to match
them to letters, and finally how to use the letter sounds for
reading and spelling.
 Synthetic phonics refers to 'synthesising', or blending, the
sounds to read words. It's based on the idea that children
should sound out unknown words and not rely on their
context.
Enunciation
Teaching phonics requires a technical skill in enunciation.
Phonemes should be articulated clearly and precisely.
Video clip
In school, we follow the Letters
and Sounds programme. Letters
and Sounds is a phonics resource
published by the Department for
Education and Skills which
consists of six phases
Technical terms
Phoneme:
Grapheme:
Consonant cluster
Consonant diagraph
Vowel diagraph
Split Vowel diagraph
Technical terms
Phoneme: The smallest unit of sound in a word.
Grapheme: Letter(s) representing the phoneme: t, ai
Consonant cluster: Two or three phonemes blended together in speech. You
hear each sound separately and there is a letter to represent each sound
(scr, bl, -mp)
Consonant diagraph: Two consonants making one phoneme. We can no
separate them: we do not hear them individually (-ck, -ss, sh, ch-)
Vowel diagraph: Two letters (one of which is vowel) making one vowel sound.
(ai, ee, ow)
Split Vowel diagraph: Two letters making the same sounds even though they
are forced apart. (tale, flute)
Phase 2
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 3
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 4
This phase consolidates
all the children have
learnt in the previous
phases.
Phase 5
Children
will be taught new graphemes
and alternative pronunciations for these
graphemes.
Vowel
digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea,
oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au

Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e
Blending
– recognising the letter
sounds in a written word for
example c-u-p, and merging the
letters together to make one
sound.
Breaking down words for spelling - blending
cat
c a t
Queen
qu ee n
CVC – WORDS – CAN YOU SPOT THE
WORDS WHICH ARE NOT CVC WORDS?
Pig
Ship
Boy
Fill
Song
Day
whizz
Chick
Car
Cow
Whip
For
Miss
Huff
 As
we move forward through the phonic phases the
same sound can be represented in more than one way.
For example the ‘ur’ sounds can be found in these words:
 Burn
 First
 Term
 Heard
 Work
 So
we need to teach the children to make the correct
grapheme choices.
Grapheme choices
smay
stroyn
clou
froat
cryt
glayn
groy
smai
stroin
clow
frowt
cright
glain
groi
What does a phonics lesson look like in school.
Revisit/review
Flashcards to practice phonemes
learnt so far.
Teach
Teach new phoneme air
Practice
Buried treasure
Air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair,
vair, sair, thair
Read captions:
The goat had a long beard.
The quack was right in his ear.
Apply
Year 1 phonics screening check
PHONICS SCREENING CHECK
The Phonics Screening Check is meant to show how well your child can use the phonics
skills they’ve learned up to the end of Year 1, and to identify students who need extra
phonics help.
The checks consist of 40 words and non-words that your child will be asked to read oneon-one with a teacher. Non-words (or nonsense words, or pseudo words) are a collection of
letters that will follow phonics rules your child has been taught, but don’t mean anything –
your child will need to read these with the correct sounds to show that they understand
the phonics rules behind them.
The 40 words and non-words are divided into two sections – one with simple word
structures of three or four letters, and one with more complex word structures of five or
six letters. The teacher administering the check with your child will give them a few
practice words to read first – including some non-words – so they understand more about
what they have to do. Each of the non-words is presented with a picture of a monster /
alien, as if the word were their name (and so your child doesn't think the word is a
mistake because it doesn't make sense!).
The phonics journey continues…
Into KS2 and throughout…. And into KS3 if necessary
If children can not remember the 44 phonemes. We need to remind
them and continue the
journey.
Lets have a go at some of the activities. If you have any questions
please ask us!