1. Fun with Phonics
Tuesday 20th September 2016

2. Jolly Phonics is also used alongside this programme.
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.
Jolly Phonics is also used alongside this programme.
Letters and sounds is a phonics resource published by the Department of Education and Skills (2007). It aims to build children’s speaking and listening skills as well as to prepare children for learning to read by developing their phonic knowledge and skills.
It sets out a detailed and systematic programme for teaching phonic skills for children by the age of 5 with the aim of them becoming fluent readers by age 7.
Letters and Sounds is used as the foundation to teach children phonics but is also delivered in many different ways to keep the children happy and engaged.
Jolly Phonics is therefore also used as a multi-sensory way of teaching phonics.
I quite often create my own storyline and use the action and sound sheet for each sound. By doing an action associated with the sound, the children remember the sounds more easily.
Each child in Reception will be given their own sound book and each time a new sound is taught this will be put into their sound book to practise at home.
Usually it is 4 new sounds per week during Phase 2 and Phase 3.

3. Terminology
Phoneme – The smallest unit of sound. There are approximately 44 phonemes in English. Phonemes can be put together to make words.
Graphemes – A way of writing down a phoneme. Graphemes can be made up from 1 letter, 2 letters, 3 letters or 4 letters.
Segmenting and blending – See further slides.
Digraph – A grapheme containing two letters that makes just one sound (phoneme) i.e. th, sh, oo
Trigraph – A grapheme containing three letters that makes just one sound (phoneme) i.e. igh, air
Split digraph – See Phase 5 slide.
Abbreviations
The terminology is used with children and whilst this can be daunting, children get used to using this.

4. Phase 1 Pre-school/Reception
There are 7 aspects with 3 strands.
A1 – Environmental
A2 – Instrumental sounds
A3 – Body Percussion
A4 – Rhythm and rhyme
A5 – Alliteration
A6 – Voice sounds
A7 – Oral blending and segmenting.
Although this phase may continue to be taught throughout phases 2-6 as necessary.

5. Phase 2 Reception 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
Tricky words: I, to, no, go, the
During Phase 2 we work on blending for reading and segmenting for spelling simple VC and CVC words.
By the end of this phase many children should be able to read some VC and CVC words and to spell them either using magnetic letters or by writing the letters.
During this phase they will also be introduced to some tricky words.
Literally, after the first set of phonemes, we begin practising blending and segmenting skills. i.e. at, pat, tap and this continues the more phonemes we learn.
It must always be remembered that phonics is the step up to word recognition.
Automatic reading of all words – decodable and tricky – is the ultimate goal.

6. Phase 3 Reception 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

7. Phase 4 Year 1
This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases.

8. Phase 5 Year 1
The purpose of this phase is for children to broaden their knowledge of graphemes and phonemes for use in reading and spelling.
Children will learn new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these and graphemes they already know, such as ‘i’ in fin and find or ‘o’ as in hot, cold.
They will be taught split digraphs such as what needs to be added to ‘tie’ to make ‘time’
i_e
Children entering Phase 5 will learn more graphemes and phonemes.
For example, they already know ‘ai’ as in rain, but now they will be introduced to ‘ay’ as in day and ‘a-e’ as in make.
Alternative pronunciations for graphemes will also be introduced e.g. ‘ea’ in tea, head and break.
With practice, speed at recognising and blending graphemes will improve. Word and spelling knowledge will be worked on extensively.

9. Phase 6 Year 2 The focus is on learning spelling rules for suffixes.
-s -es -ing ed
-er -est -y en
-ful -ly -ment -ness

10. Year 1 Phonics Test

11. Segmenting
Breaking down words for spelling.
cat
c a t

12. Segmenting
queen qu ee n

13. Building words from phonemes to read.
Blending
Building words from phonemes to read.
c a t
cat

14. Blending
qu ee n queen

15. What does a Phonics lesson look like?
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 a long beard.
The quack was right in his ear.

16. Resources www.phonicsplay.co.uk http://jollylearning.co.uk/