Phonics Workshop 2nd May 2018

We’ll cover… The Letters and Sounds Phonics Scheme Phonics Terminology Phonics Phases Tricky Words A Phonics Lesson Format The Phonics Screening Test Useful Resources

Introduction 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 Main tool for teaching Children to read and write Replaced the alphabetic, and look and say/whole world methods (although these are still used for Tricky Words)

But First, Some Terminology Phoneme Graphemes Digraph Trigraph Split digraph

Phase 1 Taught in Reception or Nursery Concentrates on speaking and listening skills Children attuned to sounds around them Lays the foundations for Phase 2 – developing oral blending and segmenting

Phase 2 Letters and their sounds are introduced one at a time A set of letters is taught each week, in the following fixed sequence 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 Children already able to blend and segment words containing letters taught in Phase 2 25 new graphemes are introduced during 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 No new Graphemes introduced Consolidate children’s knowledge Continue to practice reading and spelling words

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 Examples: -s, -es, -ing, -ed, -er, -est, -y, -en, -ful, -ly, - ment, -ness

Example Phonemes Pronunciation Mr Thorne Does Phonics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBrH4sLgeyA

c – a – t qu – ee – n Segmenting Breaking down words for spelling Example 1: - cat c – a – t Example 2: - queen qu – ee – n

cat queen Blending Building words from phonemes to read Example 1: – c-a-t cat Example 2: – qu-ee-n queen

Tricky Words Cannot be sounded out correctly using Phonics techniques Taught by learning them and having plenty of practice Phase 2: the, to, I, no, go, into Phase 3: he, she, we, me, be, was, you, they, all, are, my, her Phase 4: said, have, like, so, do, some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what Phase 5: oh, their, people, Mr, Mrs, looked, called, asked, could

Phonics Lesson Format 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 long hair.

Some Useful Resources http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk

Year 1 Phonics Test grit start best hooks phron chath sem keeb

Any Questions?