Phonics Workshop
The simple view of reading 24/11/2018
Good Readers… Good Readers 24/11/2018 Read for Meaning: “Do I understand what I’ve read?” Have good sight vocabulary (words which cannot be sounded out) Camera Words Have a good grasp of phonics: “Sound it out” Self-Correct: “Did that make sense?” Read with fluency, pace and expression Respond to what they have read: “Do I agree? How do I feel?”
How do we teach reading? Teaching Reading 24/11/2018 Phonics Comprehension Skills Text structures & organisation Developing a personal response Sight Vocabulary (High Frequency Words) Fluency, pace and expression Vocabulary & language Evaluating texts
Phonics Children need to: Know the 44 phonemes Know the alternative ways of representing the phonemes Blend phonemes together to read words How do we teach phonics? Systematic Approach Games Link reading with spelling 24/11/2018
Learning Sounds 24/11/2018
The English Language is not simple! 24/11/2018 igh igh: high ie: tie y: my i_e: like i: find
In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme 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.
Terminology Phoneme Graphemes Segmenting and blending Digraph Trigraph Graphemes Segmenting and blending Digraph Trigraph Split digraph Abbreviations
Phase 1 There are 7 aspects with 3 strands. A1 – Environmental A2 – Instrumental sounds A3 – Body Percussion A4 – Rhythm and rhyme A5 – Alliteration A6 – Voice sounds A7 – 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
What does a Phonics lesson look like? Revisit/review Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far. Teach Teach new phoneme air Practice Buried treasure Air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair, vair, sair, thair Apply Read captions: The goat had a long beard. The quack was right in his ear.
Resources http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk
Year 1 Phonics Test
Phonics alone is not enough! The num flobbits grump wiffly on the worp. Buppies, a swip od flobbit, also grump but ent wiffly. Buppies grump woffly. How do buppies grump? What is grumping? 24/11/2018
When phonics doesn’t work… Sight Words The shape of words Visual memory – have I seen the word before? Using context – does it make sense? Using grammatical knowledge Cross-checking Good readers use phonics alongside other strategies to read for meaning. Good phonics skills alone are not enough. 24/11/2018