Transcript Document - High Beeches Primary School

Phonics and
Other
Stuff
Todays objectives
By the end of this session you will
have
Have
a better
understanding of Early years
and how phonics is taught
in school.
Understand what you can
do to help your child.
Terms
 Phoneme
- the shortest sound a
letter can make. We usually call
them sounds, sometimes we call
them phonemes.
 Grapheme - another word for
letters that make up the phonemes.
They are the letter name A, B etc.
 Digraph - 2 letters one sound. Eg,
ai, as in rain
 Trigraph - 3 letters one sound. Eg,
air as in hair.
Blending
for reading – putting sounds
together to make a word.
Sound button, under each phoneme to
help identify the separate sound, a line
for digraphs etc.
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• Segmenting for spelling:
• breaking words down into sounds.
• Phoneme frames, robot talking,
counting phonemes.
How we teach it.
 Daily
sessions /small
groups.
 Follow
government
guide lines. (Letters
& Sounds)
games and
using talk to help
consolidate learning.
 In
each session
children are expected
to say phonemes on
sight and either read
phonemes / words or
write them.
 Playing
 Every
time they write.
 They
What we teach
 The
sounds of
letters in a set
order.
 s, a, t, p, i, m, n, d,
g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r,
h, b,f, ff, l, ll, ss
 Moving on to
digraphs
recognise the
phoneme.
 Learn to blend
phonemes in words.
 Learn to write the
phoneme.
 Eventually to hear
the phonemes in the
words they want to
write and then
write them.
 Letter formation is
taught throughout.
b and d
Tricky words
 Words
I
that cannot be decoded.
to no go the
 Have
 Will
to be recognised not sounded out.
be sent home on sheets with key words from
next week.
Revisit and
Review
M Recall all
o previously
n learned
Sounds
Teach
Practise
Apply
Teach ‘oa
’and ‘ar’
using jolly
phonics
actions and
mnemonic
cards.
Segmenting
for spelling:
Phoneme
frame spelling
words: loaf,
toad, oak,
foal, bar, park,
card, jar.
Blending for
reading:
Matching
words and
pictures p87
coat, boat,
soap, goat.
Reading
captions
activity
Drawing a
picture to
describe:
The coat is too
big.
The children
 For
those who struggle to grasp
phonics we give extra support, small
group and 1-1 sessions.
 When you child writes, praise every
effort.
 Encourage them to hear sounds in
the words.
 Demonstrate correct letter
formation and pen grip if your child
needs it.
Finally
Our Expectations of your Child
 Children
able to take jumpers / coats on
and off as a minimum.
 Please sign reading record whenever you
have read.
 Write with your child in lower case.
 Water in bottles please
 Change for PE after Christmas.
Thank you for
listening
Any questions?