1. Phonics
Chawson First School
October 2015

2. Aims of this session
to become familiar with the phonics teaching at school
Some ideas on how you can support your child at home

3. Foundation Stage Profile
The Foundation Stage Profile (FSP) is split up into 7 prime areas:
Communication and Language(CL)
Physical Development (PD)
Personal, Social and Emotional (PSE)
Literacy (L)
Mathematics (M)
Understanding of the World (UTW)
Expressive arts and design (EAD)

4. Letters and Sounds
There are 6 phases which span Reception to end of Year 2.
By then most children will be confident readers and writers.
There will be daily whole class activities in Reception alongside small group work

5. Letters and Sounds- Phase 1
Phase 1 is for all children including those in pre school settings. It aims to enable children to
Listen carefully
Develop their vocabulary
Speak confidently to adults and other children
Hear and separate different letter sounds e.g. /c/ and /g/
Sound out letters in words in the right order

6. Key Skills Oral blending Segmenting
Hearing a series of spoken sounds (phonemes) and merging them together to make a spoken word. No text is used.
Segmenting
Identifying the individual sounds in a
spoken word.

7. Often the children will use robot arms too.
Sound talk
Many of the children will have used sound talk in Pre school and it is still very important.
Often the children will use robot arms too.
All oral !
No letters !

8. We also use ‘sound buttons’
Sound talk
Let’s use our ‘Robot arms’ to segment and blend the sounds in some words!
We also use ‘sound buttons’
d/o/g sh/e/ll t/or/ch

9. We play lots to games to practice segmenting and blending!
We play I spy...
‘I spy a p-e-g – peg’
‘I spy a c-u-p – cup’
‘Where’s your other s-o-ck – sock?’
We also play ‘Cross the river’. Let’s have a go!

10. Phase 2 and beyond
Teaching is systematic and multisensory. Phase 1 activities are life long skills and continue alongside other phases.

11. Phase 2 and beyond Daily 4 part discrete phonics session
Revisit- practise previously learned letters and oral blending and segmenting
Teach- new graphemes, blending and segmenting and tricky words
Practise- reading and spelling words
Apply- read or write a caption

12. In Year R children will learn which letter/letters make which sound.
Jolly phonics is used to give actions.
They will bring home a sheet each time they learn a new phoneme and grapheme.
At the end of Year R children will have learnt one way of writing each sound.

13. Remember to use the correct sound...
Inky Mouse helps us with our
phonics and teaches us how to
say the sounds correctly!
Let’s have a go!

14. Important to learn that letters have names as well as sounds!

15. Important words that your children will be using
phoneme - ‘sound’
grapheme – the way you write the sound
digraph- A combination of two graphemes (letters) representing one phoneme (sound) e.g. sh/ch
trigraph- a combination of three letters representing one phoneme e.g. igh/ear
segment – split the word into its sounds to spell it
blend – say all the sounds in a word quickly to read the word

16. Ideas to help at home
magnetic letters
whiteboards
write (use ‘small’ letters) with your child
read with your child

17. Tricky words
Words that have bits that you can not sound out!
I no the said was have
You could help your child learn to read them by making up a matching pairs game or playing tricky word bingo!

18. Using phonics to read Reading books with no words Phonic home readers
Use Oxford Reading Tree alongside phonic home readers
Reading record cards
Change books twice a week

19. Using phonics to read
All children will start by bringing home a book with no words
Encourage your child to talk about the characters, use the pictures for clues and make up their own stories
Children will participate in a
weekly guided reading activity

20. Let’s write a sentence together!
Using phonics to write
Modelled writing each day
A guided writing or ‘Big Write’ session each week
Cursive handwriting- starting each letter from the line
Handwriting sessions
Let’s write a sentence together!

21. Continue to support your child by
finding time to talk together
listening for sounds
singing and making music
hearing rhyming words
reading books
learning nursery rhymes and sharing poems together

22. How do we assess?
- We are using the document ‘DEVELOPMENT MATTERS’ We will monitor progress against these age bands:30-50mths 40-60mths and then the ELG within this document. - During the year we will monitor, through; observations of children, completing independent work in discrete phonics sessions, completing work during a focused session and in freely chosen activities.
- In learning journeys you will be able to see your child’s progress.

23. Websites that you might find useful
For ‘sound’ mats

24. Ask staff if you have any questions at any time.
Last thoughts...
Have fun!!!
Ask staff if you have any questions at any time.
Thank you for coming!