1. Did you know?
There are...
26 letters of the alphabet
44 sounds in the English language
There are over 150 different ways we put letters together to represent the sounds

2. Phonics Workshop
Tuesday 30th January

3. Aims of workshop:
Introductions
What is phonics?
The importance of teaching phonics
How phonics is taught at Round Hill
What you will see in the phonics lesson today
How can you help your child at home?
Supporting children in school

4. ship hair What is phonics? cat
Phonics is a way of teaching children to read quickly and skilfully. The children are taught how to:
recognise the sounds that each individual letter makes
cat
identify the sounds that different combinations of letters make - such as ‘sh’ or ‘oo’
ship hair
blend sounds together from left to right to make a word.
Children can then use this knowledge to ‘de-code’ new words that they hear or see. This is the first important step in learning to read.

5. Why is phonics important?

6. 26 letters in the
Alphabet.
44 sounds to
make all of the
words in the
English language.
There are over 150
different ways we
put letters to make
different sounds.

7. ee sleep dream head happy sky/yellow these we met thief tie
Alternative spelling Alternative Pronunciation
sleep
dream head
happy sky/yellow
these
we met
thief tie

8. The importance of phonics
Almost all children who receive good teaching of phonics will learn the skills they need to tackle new words. They can then go on to read any kind of text fluently and confidently, and to read for enjoyment.
It teaches children hear, identify and use different sounds that distinguish one word from another in the English language.
Children who have been taught phonics also tend to read more accurately than those taught using other methods, such as ‘look and say’. This includes children who find learning to read difficult, for example those who have dyslexia.
It is a statutory requirement that all schools and early years settings in England teach ‘phonemic awareness’ and ‘phonic knowledge’.

9. Phonics at Round Hill Primary
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.
We take a systematic and structured approach to teaching phonics, starting with the easiest sounds and progressing through to the most complex.
Research has shown that this is the most effective way of teaching young children to read and write. It is particularly helpful for children aged 5 to 7.
Phonics is taught alongside individual reading and guided reading sessions.

10. What do we teach?
Beginner readers should be taught four things:
grapheme-phoneme correspondence the relationship. between sounds and the letters which represent those sounds
to synthesise (blend) phonemes (sounds) in order, all through a word, to read it
to segment words into their constituent phonemes for spelling
Ensure that children have a sound knowledge of a range of high frequency and tricky words that do not conform with phonic rules

11. Phase 2 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

12. Phase 3 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

13. Phase 4
This phase will consolidate children’s knowledge of graphemes in reading and spelling words containing adjacent consonants and polysyllabic words.

14. Phase 5
Children will be taught new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes.
Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au
Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

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

16. What will you see in the phonics lesson today?

17. 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.

18. Segmenting
Breaking down words for spelling.
sheep
sh ee p

19. Blending
Building words from phonemes to read.
sh ee p
sheep

20. Real and Pseudo (non words) Words

21. Actions

22. Teaching tricky words

23. How can you help your child at home?
With all books, encourage your child to ‘sound out’ unfamiliar words and then blend the sounds together from left to right rather than looking at the pictures to guess. Once your child has read an unfamiliar word you can talk about what it means and help him or her to follow the story.
Try to make time to read with your child every day. Grandparents and older brothers or sisters can help, too. Encourage your child to blend the sounds all the way through a word.
Word games like ‘I-spy’ can also be an enjoyable way of teaching children about sounds and letters. You can also encourage your child to read words from your shopping list or road signs to practise phonics.

24. Support your child in reading and writing their spellings.
How can you help your child at home?
Miss Naylor’s Group
Spellings ( )
grasp
trust
thank
blink
stretch
string
strong
shrink
were
out

25. Helpful websites and apps
Phonics Websites
Phonics Apps
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Mr. Thorne Does Phonics: Letters and Sounds. ...
Dr. Suess's ABC. ...
Simplex Spelling with Reverse Phonics: Lite. ...
Phonics Genius. ...
Kids ABC Letter Phonics. ...
Phonics with Phonzy. ...
Tiki Bear Phonics. ...
Phonics Vowels.

26. Information Pack