Transcript Phonics Meeting for Parents

Teaching your child to read
What has happened so far?
Your child has been exposed to language in different forms since
birth.
This may include listening to stories, songs, poems, rhymes and
conversations.
Some conversations may be in a language other than English.
Some children may have been to a nursery. Some may have
bedtime stories. Some may listen to story CD’s in the car. Some
may talk about writing in the environment: For e.g. ASDA, M
(McDonalds). Some may have been to rhyme time at the library.
All of this early exposure to language will help to develop a passion
and love for reading and writing. We call this oral literacy.
In school……
We continue to develop a love of language and
comprehension. We read, retell and discuss
stories, encourage speaking and listening in
small and large groups and set up opportunities
for role play and developing and using
imagination through play. We talk about
characters, setting. plot, alternative endings,
etc.
We have started to teach some of the first
phonics sounds so children can read for
themselves.
What happens next?
We would like to work in partnership with you to help your child
love to learn about language in the spoken and written form.
1.
First of all you could:
Continue to build a love of language and understanding reading by
talking to your child about different texts.
These could be in any form:
Magazines
Newspapers
Menus
Letters
Fiction and Non Fiction Books
Poems
Nonsense Rhymes
Joke Books
2. Help your child to learn to read.
We call this decoding.
What are phonics?
• Phonics are the sounds we use when we
speak, which when put together form
words.
• There are 44 phonic sounds in the English
language.
Why teach phonics?
• Phonics helps children to develop good reading
and spelling skills
e.g. cat can be sounded out for
reading and spelling
• The ability to read and write well is a vital
skill for all children, paving the way for an
enjoyable and successful school experience.
How to say the sounds
• Saying the sounds correctly with your
child is extremely important.
• The way we say a sound may well be
different from when you were at school.
• We say the shortest form of the sounds
(pure sounds).
The 44 phonemes
/b/
/d/
/f/
/g/
/h/
/j/
/k/
/l/
/m/
/n/
/ng/
/p/
/r/
/s/
/t/
/v/
/w/
/y/
/z/
/th/
/th/
/ch/
/sh/ /zh/ /a/
/e/
/i/
/o/
/u/
/ae/ /ee/ /ie/
/oe/
/ue/ /oo/ /ar/ /ur/ /au/ /er/ /ow/ /oi/
/air/ /ear/ /ure/
Some Definitions
A Phoneme
This is the
smallest unit of
spoken sound in a
word.
How many phonemes can you hear
in
cat?
A
A grapheme is the written form of the 44
phonemes in our English language.
There may be many ways of spelling one
sound (phoneme).
The grapheme could be 1 letter, 2
letters or more!
i
ie
igh
• A phoneme you hear
• A grapheme you see
How many words can you make?
s a t p i n m d
Phase 2
• Sounds are introduced in sets
Set 1:
Set 2:
Set 3:
Set 4:
Set 5:
satp
inmd
gock
ck e u r
h b f ff l ll ss
Blending and Segmenting
Children will learn to blend (merge) sounds
together to make sense of and read words.
Try this one: R-o-ck-e-t
Children will learn to segment (chop up)
words into individual sounds in order to
spell a word.
Try this one: Chopping.
Segment (Write) and blend
(Read)these words…
• drep
• blom
• gris
Nonsense games like this help to
build up skills – and are fun!
Once children are good with
single letter graphemes…
• DIGRAPHS – 2 letters that make 1 sound
ll ss zz oa ai
• TRIGRAPHS – 3 letters that make 1 sound
igh dge
Segmenting Activity
• Using ‘sound buttons’ can you say how many
phonemes are in each word.
• shelf
• dress
• sprint
• right
Did you get it right?
• shelf =
sh – e – l – f
• dress = d - r - e – ss
= 4 phonemes
= 4 phonemes
• sprint = s – p – r – i – n – t = 6 phonemes
• right =
r – igh – t
= 3 phonemes
Tricky Words
• Words that are not phonically decodeable
e.g. was, the, I
• Some are ‘tricky’ to start with but will
become decodeable once we have learned
more ways to spell sounds.
e.g. out, there
Phase 3 - Foundation Stage
Reception
The purpose of this phase is to:
• teach more graphemes, most of which are made
of two letters, for example, ‘oa’ as in boat
• practise blending and segmenting a wider set of
CVC words, for example, fizz, chip, sheep, light
• learn all letter names and begin to form them
correctly
• read more tricky words and begin to spell some
of them
• read and write words in phrases and sentences.
Resources: What
do we use to teach
phonics?
• Jolly Phonic Songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCMv
sQho4ZE
• Read Write Inc. Letter formation
Animal Key Words
• Throughout the year we expect children
to learn their animal key words at home
with you.
• Key words are a mixture of tricky words
and high frequency words that appear a
lot in their reading books
Our reading scheme
Read Write Inc
Songbirds
Oxford Reading Tree
What do you need to do?
• Continue to build a love of language.
• Read every day with your child.
• Practise the phonics sounds taught so far.
• Practise learning key ‘tricky’ words every day.
• Write in your child’s reading record when you
have read with your child.
• Volunteer to help to hear children read at
Southville Primary School.