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Our aims 1.Explain how phonics is taught in KS1. 2.Demonstrate the ‘new way’ of saying letter sounds. 3.Provide you with some ideas and activities for home.

5 Basic Skills 1. Learning the letter sounds 2. Letter formation 3. Blending 4. Identifying sounds in words 5. Tricky words

Letter Sounds

Digraphs (two letters that make one sound)

Digraphs (two letters making one sound)

Practice Time!!! Look through your handouts and try to make the sound represented by each letter or digraph (2 letters). Please feel free to ask if you would like us to demonstrate any of the actions or sounds.

Try out your new skills to read these words! Pikoisher – p/i/k/oi/sh/er Umarthoon - u/m/ar/th/oo/n Shaiquex – sh/ai/qu/e/x

If children are unsure when reading a word give them the sound that they are struggling with and encourage them to use this to blend. For example, goat - if children read /g/ /o/ /a/ /t/, remind them that /o/ and /a/ together makes the /oa/ sound and encourage them to blend these three sounds together.

Pencil Hold Tripod grip ‘Froggy legs’ movement

Writing (identifying sounds in words) * How many sounds can you hear? * What is the first sound? * What is the next sound? etc. f i sh...

Oh no they spelt it rong! The most important thing with children's early writing is understanding that getting the correct sound is more important than writing it with the correct letter/s.

Alternative Vowel Sounds Introduced in foundation: Alternatives taught later in year one: (rain) (play) (flame) (feet) (boat) (leaf) (snow) (bone) (these)

* Children are grouped for phonics. * Children work in smaller groups and groups are targeted towards children’s individual needs.

Here are a variety of activities you can use and adapt to support your child’s reading and writing

Sound Book

Flash Cards What sound is this? Find me a.... Stick around room – children go on sound hunt. Place sounds together and encourage children to read words. Ask children to make up word s using flash cards. Hunt for objects around home starting with a given sound.

Bingo Cards Play bingo with words. Let children write own bingo cards and play bingo. Duplicate, cut words out and play snap. Matching pairs game. Turn words over and read.

Race Game Encourage children to read words that they land on using a dice. How many words can they read in a minute? Can they read it before you can? Can they test your spelling (they read to you)? Use with sounds instead of words.

Words and Pictures Children write words for given pictures – linked to their likes. Children read given words and draw appropriate picture. Snap game – match words with pictures.

Metal Mike Robot to support segmenting – makes writing more fun. Also robot makes the mistake not the child so children are more willing to make attempts.

Top Tips 1. Little and often is the way forward with knowing all the sounds. 2. Praise children for good phonetic spelling attempts. 3. Most importantly reading and writing should be fun and meaningful!!!  Christmas lists  Postcards  Letters  Stories

Recommended website to visit  This website will play the sounds for you.