Transcript Hands Template - Thorpe Hesley Primary School

Phonics
Letters and Sounds
Workshop
Importance of FMS
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Introducing Letters
and Sounds
• Phonics is the key to children’s
success in reading and writing
• Automatic reading of all words –
decodable and tricky - is the
ultimate goal.
Letters and Sounds some key messages
• A Six Phase Programme
• Making a good start – Phase One
• Systematic high quality phonics –
Phase 2 and beyond
• Multi-sensory learning
• Use as a core scheme but can
supplement with other e.g Jolly
Phonics
The role of Phase 1
• Laying the Foundations – we must get
this stage right!
• Importance of developing speaking and
listening skills
• Relies on and complements a broad and
rich language curriculum
• Promotes the range and depth of
children’s language experience
• Introduces oral blending and
segmenting (very important!)
• Paves the way for systematic phonic
teaching to begin
Phase 1
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Seven Aspects
Three Strands in each
Modelling Speaking and Listening
Introduces oral blending and
segmenting in Aspect 7
• Adult-led activities
Phase 2
• Start of systematic phonics teaching
• Introduces 19 grapheme-phoneme
correspondences (letter sounds)
• Decoding and segmenting(Breaking
down words and sounding out) are
taught as reversible processes
• As soon as children have a small
number of grapheme/phoneme
correspondences, blending and
segmenting can start (/s/a/t/p/i/n/)
• Introduces‘Tricky’ words
Typical duration: Up to 6 weeks
Phase 2
• Each sound has an action which helps
children remember the letter(s)
• As a child becomes more confident, the
actions are no longer necessary
• Children learn each letter by its sound
not its name
• – Say a as in ant not ai as in aim
• The letters are not introduced in
alphabetical order, rather they are
chosen because the children can make
two and three letter words from very
early in the programme
Phase 2
• Blending
• This is the process of saying individual
sounds in a word and then running
them together to make the word
d –o- g and making dog
• It is a technique every child will need to
learn, and it improves with practice!
• Some children take longer than others
to hear this.
• Some sounds (digraphs) are
represented by two letters, such as sh,
ai, ee
• So rain would be sounded out as r-ai-n
Talking Partners
• Can you tell your partner how
many sounds are in these
names?
• Biff
• Chip
• Kipper
• Floppy
Segmenting
• This is the process of breaking
words up orally into their
constituent phonemes so that
they can use their knowledge of
letter-sounds to spell words.
e.g. jam
j-a-m
sock s-o-ck
Phoneme Frame
• Can you put these words in
your phoneme frame?
• Fish
• Train
• Church
• Fright
Phase 2
• Tricky words
• Some words in English have an irregular
spelling and cannot be read by blending,
such as said, was, the one
• Unfortunately many of these are
common words
• They have to be remembered and we
call them ‘tricky words’
Phase 3
• The majority of F2 children be
secure at Phase 3 at the end of
the year
• Introduces another 25 sounds
• Most comprising two letters
• Reading and spelling two syllable
words and captions
• Typical duration: Up to 12 weeks
• Phases 4 , 5 and 6 are
delivered in Years 1 and 2
• All children will do a Phonics
Screening Check during June
in Year 1. All parents will be
informed of their child’s
results.
Your child will receive a letter sound mat and letter sound book to
support their learning at home. They will also bring home sets of
words to learn.
Homework
• Sets of words to read will be sent
home.
• These will be assessed periodically
throughout the term
• These will be matched to the level
at which your child is learning.
Tricky Words
Tricky words will be sent out for
children to practise reading them at
home e.g. I no go to the.
If children become secure with
reading these they can practise then
spelling them and using them within
a sentence.
• Things to do at home
• Share stories
• Listen to your child read
• Look for letters and sounds in
the environment
• Talk about everyday activities
Thank
you!