Year 1 Phonics Workshop Westcliff Primary School 2013

Aims To share how phonics is taught in Year 1 To develop your confidence in helping your children with phonics and reading To show examples of activities and resources we use to teach phonics To share websites which parents can use to support their children

What is phonics and how can I help my child at home?

+ Phonics is all about using … knowledge of the alphabet skills for reading and spelling + Learning phonics will help your child to become a good reader and writer.

Phonics Words Your children will learn to use the term: phoneme Phonemes are the separate sounds that can be heard in words e.g. c-a-t b-oa-t

Saying the phonemes Phonemes should be articulated clearly and precisely. There are actions to go with most of the sounds – demo/sheet

Say the sounds d m h s ch ng ee igh er ai

Use the sheet to try out the sounds and actions Your turn ! Use the sheet to try out the sounds and actions

Phonics Words Blending for reading Children need to be able to hear the separate phonemes in a word and then blend them together to say the whole word .

Blending /b/ /e/ /d/ = bed /t/ /i/ /n/ = tin /m/ /u/ /g/ = mug

How many phonemes are in these words? What’s in the box ? How many phonemes are in these words?

Like this….. There are 3 phonemes in this word l ea f

Try blending to read these words to read them gorspring phighly thoack implode straight

Phonics Words Segmenting(for spelling) Children need to be able to hear a whole word and say every sound that they hear . When they can do this and recall most of phonemes they need- they are well on their way to being independent writers.

Segmenting bed = /b/ /e/ /d/ tin= /t/ /i/ /n/ mug= /m/ /u/ /g/

Phonics Words grapheme Your children will learn to use the term: grapheme This is how a phoneme is written down – could be 1 letter or 2 or 3 h ch igh

Phonics Words Your children will learn to use the term: digraph This means that the phoneme comprises of two letters e.g. ll, ff, ck, ss

Tricky Words There are many words that cannot be blended or segmented because they are irregular. the was said you some We learn these as whole words.

Phase 3: Learning the long vowel phonemes Children will enter phase 3 once they know the first 19 phonemes and can blend and segment to read and spell CVC words. They will learn another 26 phonemes: j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er They learn to read words like- pain,thing,beard,coins,sure etc

Phonics Words Trigraph Your children will learn to use the term: Trigraph This means that the phoneme comprises of three letters e.g. igh , ear, ure

Phase 4: Year 1 Introducing consonant clusters: reading and spelling words with four or more phonemes Children move into phase 4 when they know all the phonemes from phases 2 and 3 and can use them to read and spell simple words (blending to read and segmenting to spell). Phase 4 doesn’t introduce any new phonemes. It focuses on reading and spelling longer words with the phonemes they already know. These words have consonant clusters at the beginning: sport, trip, clap, green, clown …or at the end: tent, mend, damp, burnt …or at the beginning and end! trust, spend, twist.

Phonics Play – free games

Phase 5- where it gets complicated…. Still Yr 1!! Teach new graphemes for reading ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e Learn alternative pronunciations of graphemes (the same grapheme can represent more than one phoneme): Fin/find, hot/cold, cat/cent, got/giant, but/put, cow/blow, tie/field, eat/bread, farmer/her, hat/what, yes/by/very, chin/school/chef, out/shoulder/could/you. .

Learning all the variations! Learning that the same phoneme can be represented in more than one way: burn first term heard work

Learning all the variations! Learning that the same grapheme can represent more than one phoneme: meat bread he bed bear hear cow low

Teaching the split digraph tie time toe tone cue cube pie pine

Look at the Phonic Screening Test What’s expected…?

Is there anything I can do at home?

Reading Use the sounds and actions to support their reading at home Try to read for a short time every day or at least 3 times a week Make a comment about any phonemes they are struggling with from banded books Play phonic games on Phonics Play Look at Mr Thorne does Phonics for info Praise them all the time! eg.’I liked the way you blended those sounds in that word’ ‘Well done you remembered the igh sound!’

Spelling: tray trai rain rayn light lIt Use the phonic mat to support independent choices Make phonic cards from Phonics Play for playing games Buy some magnetic letters for blending and segmenting When spelling, encourage your child to think about what “looks right”. Practise tricky words Have fun trying out different options…wipe clean whiteboards/pens are good for trying out spellings. tray trai rain rayn light lIt

What can we help you with ? And finally…. Any questions? What can we help you with ?