Phonics workshop 16th December 2016

Terminology Please see hand out for a break down of terminology and example.

Letters and Sounds In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme. Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education and Skills which consists of six phases. These phases teach the 44 sounds in the English language including alternative spellings. http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/

Phase 1 Environmental Instrumental sounds Body Percussion Rhythm and rhyme Alliteration Voice sounds Oral blending and segmenting

Phase 2 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

Phase 3 Set 6: j, v, w, x Set 7: y, z, zz, qu Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er

Phase 4 This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases.

Phase 5 Children will be taught new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes. Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

Phase 6 The focus is on learning spelling rules for suffixes. -s -es -ing -ed -er -est -y -en -ful -ly -ment -ness

Segmenting Breaking down words for spelling. cat c a t

Segmenting queen qu ee n

Building words from phonemes to read. Blending Building words from phonemes to read. c a t cat

Blending qu ee n queen

How we teach phonics Short (20 minutes max but tends to be more like 15 in Year R) Active, energetic and systematic. Use games, props, puppets, lots of visuals. Taught in 4 clear parts We also teach letter formation as we work through the sounds. This is reinforced through shared writing.

4 part phonics lessons Revisit /review Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far. Teach Teach new phoneme e.g. ch Practice Think of words together with the sound chick, chip, chop, chin, such/phoneme frames/countdown/buried treasure. Apply Read/write a sentence together (with puppet). The chick had chips and chops for tea.

Assessment Children are assessed continually through teaching and also at the end of each phase. Children may need to repeat a phase before moving on to ensure they are secure in their learning. Phonics continues to Year 3 and beyond for those children who need continued support. Year 1 –statutory phonics test.

HFW and Tricky words HFW – High Frequency Words (the words that the children will need and see most commonly for reading and writing) e.g. can, and, an, at. Tricky Words- Words that CAN’T be sounded out and therefore have to be memorised and learnt by sight e.g. the, to, no.

What we will be sending home.. Cursive letter formation booklets We will be sending home HFW lists to learn. Please help you children to learn these word as it will help their reading and writing immensely. Tricky words that can’t be sounded out will be highlighted.

Useful resources Please see the Year R webpage for the links to Mr Thorne (correct pronunciation), Phonics Play games and the Letters and Sounds Website.