1. Phonics in EYFS and Key Stage 1

2. Speaking and Listening
The very beginnings!
Speaking and listening are vital skills children need to develop in order to live successful lives in society.
They are key skills for children developing their ability to read and write.

3. Talk to them!
Model and expect good listening.
Encourage the understanding and use of new vocabulary.
Sing songs, rhymes and read poems, enjoying the rhyme and rhythm of words.
Read to your child regularly and develop their story language.
Listen to your child read.

4. Reading at school Oxford Reading Tree Guided Group Reading
Learning to blend sounds into words
Learning to segment words
Learning tricky words as a sight vocabulary

5. Reading at home Quiet place for reading Playing reading games
Let them see you reading
Follow your child’s lead
Enjoyable shared experience!

6. Writing at school Mark making opportunities
Physical development for writing
Letter formation
Segmenting for writing
Tricky words
Encouraging independence

7. Writing at home Let them see you writing
Do not spell everything out for them
Encourage independence

8. Phonics! A New Vocabulary!
Phonics – the learning of letters and sounds
Phoneme – the sound a letter makes
Grapheme – the written letter
Blending – running sounds together to make a word
Segmenting – breaking a word up into its component sounds
Tricky words – words that cannot be decoded using phonics
Digraph - a sound made with two letters eg. sh ai oi
Trigraph -a group of three letters representing one sound, eg. igh
Phonetically plausible – written phonetically that it can still be read although it is spelt incorrectly eg. torl werk cabij (phonics screening test – year 1)

9. Teaching Phonics Structured programme Six phases
Daily teaching, fast pace, lots of consolidation
Blending for reading
Segmenting for writing
Tricky words

10. Phase 1 All about sounds, musical, environmental, voice and body
Aural discrimination of sounds, including letter sounds
Blending and segmenting orally

11. Phase 2 Learning specific letters and sounds Reading tricky words:
I go no to the
Blending and segmenting vc and cvc words, and in captions and sentences

12. Jolly Phonics! Children learn through song, movement and visually.

13. Phase 3 All other sounds are taught.
Alphabet names are important to describe the sounds made by more than one letter
More tricky words for reading
Writing I go no to the
Blending, segmenting, reading, writing words, captions and sentences

14. Phase 4 cvcc words – ten-t mil-k jum-p ccvc words – d-rum p-lop s-poon
Ccvcc words – p-lan-k

15. Phase 5
Children to be taught alternative pronunciations for the following letters:
i, o, c, g, u, ow, ie, ea, er, ch, a, y, ou, e, ey,
Children to be taught alternative spellings for the following phonemes:
ch, j, n, r, m, s, z, u, ear, ar, ur, air, or, oo, ai, ee, igh, oa, (y)oo, oo, sh
Children to practise reading and spelling all previously taught High Frequency Words.
Children to read and spelling polysyllabic words.
Children to read and write sentences.

16. Phase 6 Children to be taught past tense, past tense (irregular verbs)
Children to be taught to spell polysyllabic words (a word having more than one syllable)
Children to be taught how to proof read.
Children to be taught contractions using the common words – that’s, I’ve, let’s, there’s, he’s, we’re, couldn’t.
Children to be taught how to use a dictionary.
Children to be taught common spelling pattern – that an ‘or’ sound before an ‘l’ is usually spelt with an ‘a’.