1. Phonics Workshop June 2015

2. What is systematic phonics teaching?
This teaches children the link between graphemes in written language and phonemes in spoken language, and how to use these links to read and spell.

3. Oral blending:
Hearing a series of spoken sounds (phonemes) and merging them together to make a spoken word. No text is used.
For example, ‘Can you get me a tin of b-ea-n-s? ‘Where is the p-e-n?’

4. Letters: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Some of the 140 (approx.) letter combinations illustrated within words:
cat, look, would, put, peg, bread, cart, fast, pig, wanted, burn, first, term, heard, work, log, want, torn, door, warn, plug, love, haul, law, call, pain, day, gate, station, wooden, circus, sister, sweet, heat, thief, these, down, shout, tried, light, my, shine, mind, coin, boy, road, blow, bone, cold, stairs, bear, hare, moon, blue, grew, tune, fear, beer, here, baby, sun, mouse, city, science, dog, tap, field, photo, van, game, was, hat, where, judge, giant, barge, yes, cook, quick, mix, Chris, zebra, please, is, lamb, then, monkey, comb, thin, nut, knife, gnat, chip, watch, paper, ship, mission, chef, rabbit, wrong, treasure, ring, sink.
Phonemes:
/b/ /d/ /f/ /g/ /h/ /j/ /k/ /l/ /m/ /n/ /p/ /r/ /s/ /t/ /v/ /w/ /wh/ /qu/ /y/ /z/ /th/ /th/ /ch/ /sh/ /zh/ /ng/ /a/ /e/ /i/ /o/ /u/ /ae/ /ee/ /ie/ /oe/ /ue/ /oo/ /ar/ /ur/ /or/ /au/ /er/ /ow/ /oi/ /air/ /ear/

5. What is a phoneme?
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound and can comprise of more than letter.
Eg a or ai
A grapheme is the
symbol for a phoneme.

7. Digraph
2 letters that make 1 phoneme
ee (feet), ch (chip), oa (boat)
Trigraph
3 letters that make 1 phoneme
igh (night), dge (edge)

8. Split digraph
o-e hope
a-e cake
u-e cube
i-e dive

9. Segmenting words for spelling. (finger counting)
Blending for reading (running finger along)
And that these are reversible processes

10. Reception
Beginning of systematic high quality phonic work (grapheme phoneme correspondence)
s a t p i n

11. Complete the teaching of the alphabet.
Learn 1 representation for at least 42 of the 44 phonemes of British Received Pronunciation
Children should be working securely in this phase by the end of Reception

12. c-a-t blend sounds together to read ‘cat’
To segment (chop / spell)
c-a-t
rain = r-ai-n
shop= sh-o-p
might = m-igh-t
hill = h-i-ll

13. WORD
PHONEMES
cup
rain
sheep
bring
cart
straight

14. c u p r ai n sh ee b i ng ar t s aigh
WORD
PHONEMES
cup c u p
rain r ai n
sheep sh ee
bring b i ng
cart ar t
straight s
aigh

15. How can you help your child at home?

16. How many items can your child find that begin with ‘m’?
Can your child make something that begins with ‘s’ using playdough?
Can you find something in the supermarket beginning with ‘b’?
Play ‘I-spy’ using this weeks letter
sounds.

17. Can your child see a particular letter in a book or outside?
Put several items on a tray that all begin with the same sound and one that begins with a different sound. Can your child tell you the odd one out?

18. If your child is ready to start
writing letters, please help
them to write lower case letters
only.
Please encourage your child to
use our ‘Penpal’ script.
Children may like to do this
outside using chalk or water and a
large paint brush.

19. If your child knows all their
letter sounds and is able to write
them, they may like to write a
list of words beginning with each
sound and bring it in to share
with the class.
Please help your child to write
the sounds they can hear
in each word.

20. Most important of all:
Only carry out activities for 5 or 10 minutes, but on a regular basis.
Be positive and use lots of praise.

21. www.hayes-pri.bromley.sch.uk pupils/Early Years Foundation/phonics

22. Please watch Pip’s phonic video with your child for the correct annunciation of phonemes either via the school website pupils/Early Years Foundation Stage/phonics or

24. Any questions?