Phonics Training Parents and Carers 15.11.18 By: Mr Doonan

The Aim: To recap what phonics is and why it is important for your child Recap basic of concepts and terminology Focus on how we teach phonics/using this to help your child at home.

Phonics feeds into all areas of the curriculum Why do we do phonics? Phonics is the foundation of the children being able to become successful readers and writers. The children need to be able to segment (break up) and blend (put together) different words to be able to read fluently and write in full sentences. Phonics feeds into all areas of the curriculum

26 Letters – 40+ Phonemes and Graphemes

Articulation of phonemes Video’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xv86tGhyPI Articulation of phonemes

Phonic Concepts and Terminology Concept/Terminology Explanation Phoneme The smallest unit of sound in a word. E.G – Strap – 5 phonemes Grapheme The letter or letters that represent a phoneme. Digraph Two letters that make one sound – For example – sh, ch, th and ai, ee, oo Split Digraph The two letters are not next to each other but they still make one sound. For example - Make Pete Home Kite June Trigraph Three letters which make one sound For example – igh, air, ure, ear

Segmenting Blending Segmenting is used for reading and writing Identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word (e.g. sh-o-p) and writing down or manipulating letters or each sound to form the word ‘shop’ Blending (used for reading) Segment the word - For example c-u-p, Then pushing the sounds back together in the order in which they are written to pronounce the word ‘cup’.

How do we teach segmenting and blending In class we use a series of hand movements to segment and blend (robot arms). The children start with their hands close together. As they segment their hands move outwards – like they are chopping up a word. When they are ready to blend they then push the sounds back together.

Ship Can you include sound buttons? Now its your turn Lets have a go together as segmenting and blending theses words. Frog Ship Can you include sound buttons? Night Back

Short discrete session – Daily How we teach phonics Short discrete session – Daily Interactive teaching Recap previously learned sounds (3-5 mins) Teach – 1 new sound (5mins) – segmenting and blending – tricky words/HFW/Alien words Practise – new phoneme/grapheme (5 mins) Apply – read or write the new sound (Words or into sentences) (5 mins)

Phase 2 children know that words are constructed from phonemes (sounds) and that phonemes are represented by graphemes (written representation). They have a knowledge of a small selection of common consonants and vowels (which usually begin with s, a, t, p, i, n) and begin to put them together to read and spell CVC words, E.G: cat mat sat pat

Phase 3 Children link sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet. They hear and say sounds in the order they occur in the word and read simple words by blending the phonemes from left to right. * They recognise common digraphs (e.g. th) and read some high frequency words.

* Phase 5 Teaching children to recognise and use alternative ways of pronouncing the graphemes and spelling the phonemes already taught. (Year One) Children will use alternative ways of pronouncing the graphemes (e.g. the ‘c’ in coat and city). Recognise an increasing number of high frequency words automatically. Knowledge and skills of phonics will be the prime approach to reading and spelling.

How many different ways can you make the ee sound? Now it is your turn How many different ways can you make the ee sound?

There are 8 ways! e = in the word me ee = in the word green ea = in the word heal ey = in the word key ie – in the word field ei – in the word ceiling y – in the word happy e-e – in the word theme

High Frequency Words / Tricky Words The majority of high frequency words can be segmented and blended for reading and writing. (jump, his, took) Some exceptions/tricky words – for example was and said are directly taught. These form the basis of their weekly spelling test – so please help your child to learn them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY

For example – phush, shoig, herth Phonics Screening During the summer term in Year 1 each child takes an individual phonics screening test. This tests their segmenting (breaking up the sounds) and blending skills (pushing the sounds back together). In the test there are a mixture of words they will see in their reading books and ‘alien’ words. These are not real words but are a group of phonemes pushed together to make up an invented word. For example – phush, shoig, herth The children will be taught how to read these words and the best strategies to use when taking the test.

How can you help you child at home? Read Phonics Resource Pack * Mr Thorne does phonics: Phonics play: https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/ChildrensMenu.htm Make it fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1xqLjHF53A

Any Questions?