Transcript Woolton Primary School Helping your child with phonics July 2013

Woolton Primary School
Helping your child
with phonics
Aims of the session
 To develop a greater understanding of what
phonics is and how it supports children with
reading, writing and spelling
 To have some key strategies to use at home to
support your child with phonics
 To know what sounds the individual letters make in
the alphabet
 To find out about the Read Write Inc phonics
programme
 To know some different websites that you can use
with children at home to extend their learning in
phonics
What is phonics?
 Phonics is the key sounds that different
letter patterns make.
 Words contain a number of sounds known
as phonemes
 Each mix of letters together make a
different sound e.g. t+h=th, s+h=sh,
i+g+h=igh
 Early reading and writing skills are taught
through children learning to read and spell
individual phonemes.
What sounds do the letters make?
 Show pronunciation clip on YouTube
 Individual letters are taught – all letters of the
alphabet and then double or triple letters as
children progress through phonics
 Letters not taught in alphabetical order – start with
set one sounds - m a s d t i n p g o c k u b f e l h r j
vwvxz
 Children are taught to produce the sounds as
shortly as possible, e.g no ‘uh’ on the end of ‘s’ and
‘m’ – pure sounds.
Children learn a simple code first
The complex English alphabetic code
Read Write Inc Phonics
 Look at the parents’ pages on the web for tips and
resources for supporting your child at home:
www.ruthmiskinliteracy.com
or
www.oup.com (download phonic sound presentation
from parents page)
(RWI resources are published by Oxford University Press)
How we teach phonics
 Introducing speed sounds
 Green words – can be sounded out e.g. s-t-o-p,
stop
 Red words – cannot be sounded out (grotty
graphemes!) e.g. the, said, no
 Blending (for reading) and segmenting (for
spelling)
 Handwriting phrases
 Ditty books, green books and home reading
books
 Fred!
Fred...
 Fred helps children learn to read
Fred can only talk in sounds...
.
(Fred can only say c_a_t,
he can’t say cat)
We call this Fred Talk
 You can have a Fred at home…any
stuffed toy will do!
Fred...
 If children understand Fred they can
blend orally
Blending is needed for reading
Fred...
 Fred helps children learn to spell as well!
Children convert words into sounds
They press the sounds they hear on to their
fingers...
We call this Fred Fingers
 Segmenting for spelling
Storybooks and Get Writing
Books
How can you help your child?
By knowing the 44 pure sounds
By using the Speed Sound cards with your child
By knowing how to blend using Fred Talk for reading
m_a_t
By knowing how to do Fred Fingers for spelling
Games to play
• Get your child to collect objects from around the house
and put in a pile. Ask questions like, “bring me something
starting with g.. f… t…?”
• Play the robot game speak in robot language “stand u-p”
“Sit d-ow-n”
• When helping with dinner – “can you get me the h-a-m,
the
b-r-ea-d?”
• I spy something beginning with - say the sound not the
name of letter
• Give instructions. You say individual sounds in words –
Looking at books together
• Look at pictures in books – can you find me the
c-a-t, the d-o-g?
• Where is the b-oa-t? Where is the ch-ee-se?
• Children will have books with key words in –
most will be phonetically decodable – (can be
sounded out)
• Encourage children to read each sound in small
words and put sounds together.
More activities to try
• Have a pot of magnetic letters
• Say words for children to make using the
magnetic letters
• Encourage them to copy them down
• Check your child’s pencil grip
• Do some simple actions to warm up
muscles for writing – incy wincey spider
actions, pressing different fingers together
NB these muscles need to be developed for
children to write comfortably
Phonics websites
www.phonicsplay.co.uk
www.familylearning.org.uk/phonicsgames
www.tes.co.uk/teaching
www.letters-and-sounds.com/
www.busythings.co.uk (£12 per year)
Google – Mr Thorne phonics for you
tube clip on pronouncing sounds
Reading strategies (as children
become more fluent readers)
• As well as sounding words out children need to
use picture cues and have a go at reading
words by looking at the first sound of the word
• Use their knowledge of other words in
sentences to find a word which will make sense.
• Cover word that is difficult, go back to start of
sentence, leave a gap and read to end – which
word would make sense?
• Read for meaning – always check with child
and ask them to explain what is happening after
one or two pages of text.
Any questions?