St Andrew’s Reception Information evening for Parents.

Aims To share how phonics is taught in Reception To teach the basics of phonics and some useful phonics terms To show examples of activities and resources we use to teach phonics Start to have a look at some early writing To share websites which parents can use to support their children Questions

Why?

+ Phonics is all about using … knowledge of the alphabet skills for reading and spelling + Learning phonics will help your child to become a good reader and writer.

Every child in Reception learns daily phonics at their level Key words and big book time In January we start daily writing sessions Individual reading

Phonic terms Phoneme (sound) Grapheme (letter formation) Blending (putting sounds together to make word) Segmenting (breaking word into sounds) Digraph (2 letter sounds /oo/ /ch/) Trigraph (3 letter sounds /igh/) CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) Sound button Key words

Pre Reading

Daily Phonics Every day the children have a 20 minute session of phonics. • Fast paced approach Lessons encompass a range of games, songs and rhymes We use Jolly Phonics aide memoir We use the Letters and Sounds planning document to support the teaching of phonics There are 6 phonics phases which the children work through at their own pace Daily Phonics Phoneme frames, sound buttons, full circle, countdown, flashcards, buried treasure

Saying the sounds Sounds should be articulated clearly and precisely.

Set 1 - s, a, t, p, Set 2 - i, n, m, d, Set 3 - g, o, c, k, Set 4 - ck, e, u, r, Set 5 - h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss,

Letter Progression: Set 6 - Letter Progression: Set 6 - j, v, w, x Set 7 - y, z, zz, qu Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng. Vowel digraphs and trigraphs: ear, air, ure, er, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo

Blending When we teach children to read, we tell them to: Look at the letter and make the sound.? pin tin This is called blending or sounding out.

a the I in was to and it my that he went of is then with am had me some are has one there at have out they come her saw this for his see we go little she when about could make take after did new their all do next them an down not three as from now time away get off today back got old too be here on two because him once up big into other us but last our very by like over were call live put what came look said will can made so you

Phase 4: Introducing consonant clusters: reading and spelling words with four or more phonemes Children move into phase 4 when they know all the phonemes from phases 2 and 3 and can use them to read and spell simple words (blending to read and segmenting to spell). Phase 4 doesn’t introduce any new phonemes. It focuses on reading and spelling longer words with the phonemes they already know. These words have consonant clusters at the beginning: spot, trip, clap, green, clown …or at the end: tent, mend, damp, burnt …or at the beginning and end! trust, spend, twist

Websites www.phonicsplay.co.uk http://www.northwood.org.uk/phonics.htm www.ictgames.com/literacy.html www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/

Books When children know approximately 18 letter sounds we move them on to books with words. Books are changed daily when children have finished with their books Children need to be confident in both the reading and comprehension before moving reading levels

Reading at Home Find a quiet place, away from T.V. etc Little and often Look at the title, front cover. What could the book be about? Read the blurb on the back Talk about the illustrations Discuss the characters, what are they thinking / feeling? What might they do next? What might happen at the end? Encourage children to sound out words they don’t know Make a note in the reading diary

Reading at Home Read a wide variety of different types of books Read stories to your child Let your child see you reading for pleasure

Emergent writing “means that children begin to understand that writing is a form of communication and their marks on paper convey a message” (Mayer, 2007, p. 35).

Talk for writing …….

At the same time as teaching the sounds we teach them the formation of the letters

Marks & Scribbling Drawing Scribble Writing Letterlike Forms & Individual Letters Letter Strings Phonics • Conventional Forms

Lots of encouragement Talk Writing for a purpose QUESTIONS???? What can you do to help?… Lots of encouragement Talk Writing for a purpose QUESTIONS????