1. Phonics Workshop
Thursday 12th October 2017

2. What is phonics?
Children have a 20 minute daily discrete phonics sessions.
Children are taught to read by breaking down words into separate sounds or ‘phonemes’. They are then taught how to blend these sounds together to read the whole word.
There are 44 different sounds.

4. Letters (graphemes) are used to represent sounds (phonemes)
c-a-t

5. You can use 1, 2, or more letters to represent a sound sun snow sight sleigh

6. There are different ways of spelling the same sound
There are different ways of spelling the same sound. train play they cake weigh not knight gnat funny

7. The same spelling can be used for different sounds
The same spelling can be used for different sounds. head great cheap cough ghost cow blow bed he

8. Phase One Distinguising between sounds Hearing initial sounds in words
Phase 1; usually before starting school and beginning of FS2
awareness of rhyme, alliteration, speaking clearly and
enjoying sharing stories.
Distinguising between sounds
Hearing initial sounds in words
Matching sounds to words
Sorting objects which have the same/different sounds
Segmenting words aurally
Blending words aurally
Alliteration games
Rhyming strings
Listening ears, binoculars, instruments, rhyming soup, feely bags, robot arms, matching games

10. Phase Two s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss
Phase 2; During FS2 (Reception) awareness of a small number of grapheme/phoneme correspondences and using these to blend and segment.
Teach individual letter sounds (phonemes) and written representation (graphemes)
Matching written letters to sounds
Continuing rhyming words.
Learning letter formation
Segment CVC words to write
Blend CVC words to read.
Teach tricky words that cannot be sounded out.
Write simple sentences.
s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss
Show phonics cards
Treasure and trash, Obb and Bob, Magic river, pass the sound card round and round, pictures of phonics activities

13. Phase 3
Phase 3; During FS2To teach children one grapheme for each of the 44 phonemes in order to read and spell simple regular words.
Teach digraphs/trigraphs
Teach letter names
Teach tricky words and read and write High Frequency Words from Memory
Writing sentences with capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
Recognising digraphs/trigraphs in words when reading
Writing graphemes from memory
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

16. Becoming more practised in making correct spelling choices
Phase 4; During FS2
To teach children to read and spell words containing adjacent consonants.
Phase 5; During Year 1.
Teaching children to recognise and use alternative ways of
pronouncing the graphemes and spelling the phonemes already
taught.
Phase 6; During Year 2.
Becoming more practised in making correct spelling choices
moving from learning to read to reading to learn.

18. Planning and Teaching. 4 part session.
Revise and Review, Teach, Practise, Apply.
5 minutes each part.
Four part lesson

19. Emergent writing
Mark making

20. Letter Strings

21. Segmenting Use robot arms to break up words, letter mats to find phonemes, write the sounds we hear.
V c i o v m
V ct is on v mt
The cat is on the mat
The larj cat is sleeping on the mat with the fluffee dog.

22. Initial writing

23. Next two stages

24. ELG writing

25. Initial Reading Recognising intial phonemes Reading tricky words
Blending
Recognising digraphs/trigraphs in words
Understanding text they have read
Phoneme cards, phoneme fans, tricky word flash cards

26. Blending
pot trip Shop smash

27. Phase 2 book

30. What else is happening? Have fun at home! Don’t worry! Reading books
Apps –
Meet the Alphablocks! Free app
Mr Thorne Does Phonics - free
Teach Your Monster to Read: First Steps is a £2.99 app for iPad
Twinkl Phonics suite - £4.99 has all phases
Jolly Phonics Letter Sounds also costs £4.99, but is available for the iPhone as well as Apple's tablet.
Ladybird: I'm Ready for Phonics app £1.99
free website!

31. Thank you for coming.