Transcript Phonics_Meeting_for_Parents

Phonics Meeting
for Parents
Thursday 6th October
Some Definitions
A Phoneme
This is the smallest
unit of sound in a word.
How many phonemes can you hear in
cat?
A grapheme
These are the letters that
represent the phoneme.
Children need to practise recognising the grapheme
and saying the phoneme that it represents.
The grapheme could be 1 letter, 2 letters or more!
t
ai
igh
•A phoneme you hear
•A grapheme you see
A word always has the same number of
phonemes and graphemes!
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Taught through a mixture of Letters and Sounds, Read
Write Inc and Jolly phonics
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Phase 1 Acorn
◦ To distinguish between sounds and become familiar
with rhyme, rhythm and alliteration.
Phase 2 Acorn
◦ To introduce 19 grapheme-phoneme correspondences.
Phase 3 Acorn/Beech
◦ To teach one grapheme for each of the 44 phonemes in
order to spell simple regular words.
Phase 4 Beech
◦ To read and spell words containing adjacent
consonants.
Phase 5 Beech
◦ To teach alternative pronunciations for graphemes and
alternative spellings for phonemes.
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Phase 2
Once children are good with single phonemes
(phase 3)
DIGRAPHS – 2 letters that make 1 sound
ar ee oa ai
TRIGRAPHS – 3 letters that make 1 sound
igh ear
Phase 3- next 25 graphemes
j, v, w, x
y, z, zz, qu
Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng
Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, oa, oo, oi
Blending
Recognising the letter sounds in a written word, for
example
c-u-p
and merging or ‘blending’ them in the order in
which they are written to pronounce the word ‘cup’
Segmenting
‘Chopping Up’ the word to spell it out
The opposite of blending
Identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word
(e.g. h-i-m , s-t-or-k) and writing down letters for
each sound (phoneme) to form the word him and
stork
Segmenting Activity
Using ‘sound buttons’ can you say how many
phonemes are in each word.
shelf
dress
sprint
string
Did you get it right?
shelf = sh – e – l – f
= 4 phonemes
dress = d - r - e – ss
= 4 phonemes
sprint = s – p – r – i – n – t = 6 phonemes
string = s – t – r – i – ng = 5 phonemes
Phonics screening check
Tests whether children can segment and blend the phonemes
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html
Phase 4
Children continue to practise previously learned graphemes and phonemes and learn
how to read and write:
CVCC words: tent, damp, toast, chimp
For example, in the word ‘toast’, t = consonant, oa = vowel, s = consonant, t = consonant.
and CCVC words: swim, plum, sport, cream,
spoon
For example, in the word ‘cream’, c = consonant, r = consonant, ea = vowel, m = consonant.
They will be learning more tricky words and continuing to read and write sentences
together.
Tricky words
said, so, do, have, like, some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what
Can you use the phoneme frame to work out how many
sounds there are in these words?
pig
church
coat
curl
thorn
chick
down
shirt
p
ch
i
ur
g
ch
Tricky Words
•Words that are not phonically de-codeable
e.g. was, the, I, said
By the end of year 1 must be able to read 100 high
frequency/ tricky words.
Moving onto the next phase
We assess whether children can read the sounds in real
words and alien words.
Phase 5
Children will be able to read and spell words with adjacent
consonants.
Learn more graphemes for the same sound
ay may I play
a-e bake a cake
Jane Bakes a Cake.
ai ay a_e
One rainy Saturday Jane baked a cake. She went all the way to the
shops on her skates.
When Jane got home she made a big cake. She put a slice on a plate
and ate it.
Then Jane went outside to her pet reindeer. She gave him a plate of
hay, but he did not eat it. The reindeer did not eat any hay on Saturday,
or Sunday, or Monday. Jane did not know what to do.
On Tuesday, Jane took some of her cake on a plate to her reindeer. He
ate it all up! Jane said he could have another plate of cake, but only if
he ate all of his hay... so he did!
Watch one of our lessons!