High Quality Phonics in Early Years and Key Stage 1 Letters and Sounds High Quality Phonics in Early Years and Key Stage 1

Aim: What is phonics? How we teach phonics How you can help your child

Listening and remembering sounds Seven aspects, three strands: A1 – Environmental sounds A2 – Instrumental sounds A3 – Body percussion A4 – Rhythm and rhyme A5 – Alliteration A6 – Voice sounds A7 – Oral blending and segmenting Tuning into sounds Talking about sounds Listening and remembering sounds

Learning about sounds Rhyming books Animal sounds (A cow says?) Playing instruments Nursery rhymes and tongue twisters What sounds can you hear? Linking common words to objects – that starts with m like Mummy!

Symbols Sounds Phonemes are the sounds in words. How many phonemes in the words: play chair tomato Graphemes are the symbols we use to write phonemes. Segment/ Write Symbols Sounds Blend/ Read

Reading and writing are like a code: phonics teach your child how to crack the code. We want happy confident readers and writers who use these skills to communicate their thoughts and to learn. Phonics at Shavington is : Daily 20 minutes structured time Fun, active, interactive, multi sensory. Targeted to children’s development, knowledge and skills

Phonics Phase 1 To distinguish between sounds and become familiar with rhyme, rhythm and alliteration. Phase 2 To introduce 19 grapheme-phoneme correspondences. Phase 3 To teach one grapheme for each of the 44 phonemes in order to spell simple regular words. Phase 4 To read and spell words containing adjacent consonants. Phase 5 To teach alternative pronunciations for graphemes and alternative spellings for phonemes. Phase 6 To develop their skill and automaticity in reading and writing. Pre-school/ Nursery Reception Year 1 Year 2

Phase 2 Introduce the first 19 phonemes and their graphemes Phase 2 Introduce the first 19 phonemes and their graphemes. Introduce digraphs. Hear the initial sounds in words. Begin to blend to read and segment to write. duck

Phase 3 To learn the graphemes that represent the 44 sounds in the English language. Learn that tricky words can’t be blended – just have to learn them. More emphasise on forming graphemes correctly. Continue to learn to blend to read and segment to write.

Phase 4 float spark present No new phonemes/graphemes learnt. Practice and develop blending in longer words. float spark present Practice and develop segmenting – begin to spell longer words. More tricky words!

Learning to Read “The waiter asked if we would like bread and butter.” Sounding out/blending Illustrations First sound Syntax Semantics

Phase 5

Phase 5 New graphemes Split digraphs New pronunciations for known letters eg o (hot, cold) c (cat, cent) g (got, giant)

Phonics screening test Summer Term. Year 1 children. Administered in school by a teacher known by the children. 40 words: 20 alien words, 20 real words. First 20 words are based on phase 3 sounds, next 20 words based on phase 5 sounds. Sound and blend. Retake in Year 2.

Phase 6 At this stage many children will be reading longer and less familiar texts independently and with increasing fluency. The shift from learning to read to reading to learn takes place and children read for information and for pleasure. Also focus upon accuracy in spelling.

Helping with Phonics Sound Mats Flash Cards Games on website Regular reading Linking learning to life – pointing out graphemes you see around you – favourite makes of cars, road signs etc.