Transcript Phonics Workshop - St Bernadette Catholic Primary School

For Year 1 and Year 2 Parents
1 of 3 sessions
In this sessions we will include:
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Terminology
Why phonics is so important
The phases
The sounds themselves
Tricky and high frequency words
Non-sense words
A selection of phonics games
The importance of reading at home
Information about the Year 1 screening test
A list of resources you can use
Terminology
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Phoneme
Grapheme
Blending
Segmenting
Di-graph
Tri-graph
Split digraph
GPC
CV, CVC, CVCC, CCVC
Nonsense words
How many of
these terms do
you know? You
have 3 mins.
Terminology – how many did you
get?
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Phoneme - sound
Grapheme – written picture of the sound
Di-graph – 2 letters, 1 sound
Tri-graph - 3 letters, 1 sound
Split digraph – (P5) a digraph that is split by a letter
GPC – grapheme phoneme correspondance
CV – consonant vowel e.g. no
CVC – consonant vowel consonant e.g. cat
CVCC –e.g. best
CCVC - e.g.clap
Why phonics?
 Simple view of reading: decoding and blending
 Writing
 Hear, identify and manipulate sounds
 26 letters in the alphabet but there are 44 sounds
 5 vowels
 A phoneme can be represented by one or more letters
e.g. sh, th, ee
 The same phoneme can be spelt in more than one way
e.g. rain, may, lake
 The same spelling may represent more than one
phoneme e.g. mean, deaf
The Phases 1 - 6
 Phase 1: phonological awareness (ongoing)
 Phase 2: s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss
 Phase 3: j, v, w, x, y, z, qu, sh, ch, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or,
ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er
 Phase 4: read and spell CVCC, CCVC, CCV, CCVCC, CCCVCC
 Phase 5: alternative graphemes and phonemes (more to come
next session)
 Phase 6: spelling (year 2)
By the end of Year 1 the national average is Phase 5.
The national average for Year 2 is Phase 6.
Phase 1
 Need to have a firm foundation in this to be able to
successfully move on.
 Sound discrimination: listening attentively
- Environmental
- Instrumental
- Body percussion
 Rhythm and rhyme
 Alliteration
 Voice sounds
 Ongoing
Learning the Sounds
 Phase 2: s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f,
ff, l, ll, ss
 Be careful of the schwas and
 modelling especially ‘t’
video
Now it’s your turn
Using the Phase 2 sounds
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss
Let’s play:
 I-spy
Learning the Sounds
 Phase 3: j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu,
 sh, ch, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear,
air, ure, er
video
Now it’s your turn
Using the Phase 3 sounds: j, v, w, x, y, z, qu, sh, ch, th,
ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er
Let’s play splat.
Phase 4 – no new sounds to learn
To enter Phase 4 you will be able to:
• represent each of the 42 phonemes by a grapheme
• be able to blend and segment CVC words
• Read and spell some tricky words
• Consolidate knowledge of graphemes for reading and spelling
containing adjacent consonants: CV – consonant vowel e.g. no
 CVC – consonant vowel consonant e.g. cat
 CVCC –e.g. went, best
 CCVC - e.g.clap
 And polysyllabic words e.g. and driftwood
Phase 5
 Alternative phonemes
- The same spelling may represent more than one
phoneme e.g. mean, deaf
 Alternative graphemes
- The same phoneme can be spelt in more than one way
e.g. rain, may, lake
Tricky and High Frequency Words
 These are taught along with the phases
 HF words: some are decodeable e.g. then (‘th’ not ‘the’)
However,
 There are some words that you just cannot sound out!
- the
- he
- she
- said
- one
Spellings
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Look. Cover. Check
Motor memory
Spelling booklet – activities
Headlines
That’s an Order
Super Sentences
Rainbow Words
Bubble Letters
Make a word search
Magnetic Letters
Phoneme Frames
 Great for learning your sounds and how to apply them
 Help with spellings
church
ch
ur
ch
HF words – Phase 2 (spell = phase 3)
Decodeable High
Frequency Words
a mum
an
as
if
in
is
it
of
off
on
can
got
but
dad
had
back
and
get
big
him
has
his
not
up
Tricky High Frequency
Words
the
to
I
no
go
into
HF words – Phase 3 (spell = phase 4)
Decodeable High
Frequency Words
will
that
this
then
them
with
see
for
now
down
look
too
Tricky High Frequency
Words
he
she
we
me
be
was
you
they
all
are
my
her
HF words – Phase 4 (spell = phase 5)
Decodeable High
Frequency Words
went
it’s
from
children
just
help
Tricky High Frequency
Words
said
have
like
so
do
were
there
little
one
when
Now it’s your turn
 How many can you do in 1 minute?
 Can you put it into a sentence?
What a Load of Nonsense
 When you know all of the sounds you can sound out
anything!
 jeg
 wint
 kly
 lun
 groiks
 fowspring
Making it Fun
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Freddy Fingers – how many sounds are in a word
Cross the river – cross the river if you have ‘ee’
NSEW – 4 sounds/words around the room/garden
Rubbish or treasure? - sort words
Robot speak
What’s in the box? Match the word to the picture
Sound hangman – using dots and dashes
How many can you read/write in a minute?
Make an alien/superhero with a nonsense name!
Ask your child – they will know how to play.
The Importance of Reading at
Home
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Research shows that a child should read at home.
Reading to your child is just as important!
It doesn’t just have to be books...
Going back to the simple view of reading – it’s more
than just sounding out.
Read their reading book?
Look at other materials
Discuss the book: favourite page/character
Phonics detective!
What you write can really help.
The Year 1 Reading Screening
 Beginning of June – date to follow
 20 non-sense words
 20 real words
 Spanning the 5 phases
 32/40 pass mark
 Re-sit the following year
Please take a look at last years booklet.
Next Week
We are offering a 2nd session to follow on from this one
which will mainly focus on Phase 5 and anything from
this session you would like me to go over again. This is
on Tuesday .
There is a 3rd session scheduled for Thursday It will be
with your Year 1 child in class where you can practise
what you have learnt by playing some on the games
with your child.
Resources
 School’s website http://www.stbernadette.herts.sch.uk
 www.letters-and-sounds.com
 Phonics play
 Laurence Haines – spld base in Watford. Free letters
and sounds resources. Games, activities etc.
http://www.lhaines.herts.sch.uk/spldbase/index.html
Any
Questions?
I hope you have found today
useful.
I hope to see you next
time.