Welcome to our Reception Phonics workshop.

* To give you a better understanding of our Phonics scheme and how we teach it * To explain how you can support your child at home with their reading and phonics * To give you ideas/the opportunity to join in with activities that you could use to support your child with their Phonics and Reading * To provide you with fun ideas and resources to take home and use with your child

Phonics Phonics is the initial step in teaching children to read Phonics Phonics is the initial step in teaching children to read. Children are taught the sounds required for reading and practise applying these skills.

Vocabulary your child will be learning A Phoneme When a single letter makes one sound. These are the alphabet sounds…a, b, c, d….. A Digraph When 2 letters make one sound e.g ai, ee, oo, ar A Trigraph When 3 letters make one sound e.g igh, ear, ure A Split Digraph 2 vowels with a consonant in between. For example: spine - i_e

Articulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s

Song of Sounds Stage 1 – Reception Stage 2 – Year 1 Stage 3 – Year 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XddZM F1jAgo

Phase 1 Phase One concentrates on developing children's speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for the phonic work. The emphasis during Phase 1 is to get children attuned to the sounds around them and ready to begin developing oral blending and segmenting skills. *Environmental sounds *Instrumental sounds- to develop children's awareness of sounds made by various instruments and noise makers. *Listening to a wide range of texts (widening their vocabulary) *Body percussion *Rhyme and rhythm – Nursery rhymes *Alliteration – silly soup *Voice sounds *Oral segmenting and blending of familiar words (Sound talk) AB P – i - p

Phase 1 activities

Listening walk

Alliteration

Examples of Activities: Stage 1 Phonics Children learn 23 sounds and how to blend sounds in words, to support reading, and segmenting sounds to help with spelling and writing. It is not as easy as teaching A to Z! We teach the sounds in a particular order and way: Examples of Activities: Flashcards- Cursive/Print in books Pronunciation is crucial Initial sounds- Eye Spy Tell me something that begins with a ‘b’,’d’,‘g’? Sound Tennis Texts in the environment. Find me a... (cereal toy boxes, magazines, books) Sounding out and blending orally CVC blending/Sound Buttons Crossing the river/Flashcards Making and reading words – magnetic letters Guess the picture (phase 1 song sheet) Bingo LC

What our phonics sessions look like…

Reading With Your Child

When reading, encourage your child to ‘sound out’ unfamiliar words and then blend from left to right. Focusing particularly on spotting more unusual sound patterns. Digraph – 2 letters making one sound e.g. rain Trigraphs – 3 letters making one sound e.g. night Split digraph – 2 vowels with a consonant in between. You may have called it magic e – spine – i_e Use phonics when you speak: “it’s time to go to b-e-d.” There are lots of phonic games available for your child to access on the computer (listed on the next slide).

Useful Websites: There are many useful websites that have helpful hints for parents and games for your child to practise reading real and nonsense words. You Tube – song of sounds www.phonicsplay.com www.lettersandsounds.com http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html

Reading BK

My Ten Top Tips… 1.Choose a good time and place BK

3. Let them hold the book and point to the words if needed. 2.Introduce the book 3. Let them hold the book and point to the words if needed. 4. If they don’t know a word… Show me the tricky word Run your finger along it Can you sound it out? What does the word look like? What would make sense? What sounds right? Start the sentence again and have a guess Break words up into smaller words Are there any clues in the pictures? BUT…If they’re struggling, tell them tricky names or words

5. Don’t cover the pictures. It’s not cheating. 6 5. Don’t cover the pictures. It’s not cheating! 6. Check they understand the story. Ask them questions about the characters. 7. Use the song of sounds sheet to support.

8. Re-read easy books. This encourages the belief... ‘I can read’ 9. Talk about the punctuation. 10. Look for opportunities to read everywhere

Asking Questions Questions and statements that are generally exploratory in tone are helpful What makes you think that? What do you think? What words give you that impression? How are they feeling? Can you explain why? Do you agree with ……’s opinion? Do you like the bit where…..? What would you do?

Questions? Please feel free to stay and look at the phonics activities.