Phonics at St Peter’s

What is phonics? Phonics is all about using skills for reading and spelling. Learning phonics will help your child to become better at reading and writing.

The Rose Review Jim Rose “ high quality phonic work should be the prime means for teaching beginner reads to read and spell”.

So… why phonics? At St Peter’s we use the letters and sounds planning document to support the teaching of phonics. Jolly phonics resources

How is it taught at St Peter’s? Every child in EYFS and KS1 is taught phonics each day for 25/30 minutes. Fast paced Based on repetition Games, rhymes and songs.

Phases Phase 1- tuning into sounds Phase 2- learning phonemes to read and write simple words Phase 3- learning the long vowel phonemes and digraphs Phase 4- consonant clusters and spelling words Phase 5- alternative digraphs for reading Phase 6- spellings and learning rules of spelling.

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Terminology Phonemes: the smallest unit of sound that are found in a word. Grapheme: the spelling of the word ‘th’ Digraph: two letters that make one sound. Trigraph: three letters that make one sound CVC: consonant, vowel consonant, words. Segmenting: breaking the word up into its sounds. Blending: putting words together to read a word. Tricky words: words that cannot be decoded.

Phonemes The smallest unit of sound that are found in a word.

Digraph Two letters that make one sound Th ai ch ph ng oi ee

Trigraph Three letters that make one sound igh ear air

Tricky words Words that cannot be decoded.

How to help at home The robot game (oral blending) What’s in the box? Tricky word tins I spy digraph/tri-graph books Which digraph charts? Read with your child every night Practise spellings- rainbow writing, look, write, cover and spell, spelling pyramids, clap the beat

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