1. Welcome to our Reception Phonics workshop.

2. * To give you a better understanding of our Phonics scheme and how we teach it * To explain how you can support your child at home with their reading and phonics * To give you ideas/the opportunity to join in with activities that you could use to support your child with their Phonics and Reading * To provide you with fun ideas and resources to take home and use with your child

3. Phonics Phonics is the initial step in teaching children to read
Phonics Phonics is the initial step in teaching children to read. Children are taught the sounds required for reading and practise applying these skills.

4. Vocabulary your child will be learning
A Phoneme
When a single letter makes one sound.
These are the alphabet sounds…a, b, c, d…..
A Digraph
When 2 letters make one sound
e.g ai, ee, oo, ar
A Trigraph
When 3 letters make one sound
e.g igh, ear, ure
A Split Digraph
2 vowels with a consonant in between.
For example: spine - i_e

5. Articulation

6. Song of Sounds Stage 1 – Reception Stage 2 – Year 1 Stage 3 – Year 2
F1jAgo

8. Phase 1
Phase One concentrates on developing children's speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for the phonic work. The emphasis during Phase 1 is to get children attuned to the sounds around them and ready to begin developing oral blending and segmenting skills. *Environmental sounds *Instrumental sounds- to develop children's awareness of sounds made by various instruments and noise makers.
*Listening to a wide range of texts (widening their vocabulary) *Body percussion *Rhyme and rhythm – Nursery rhymes *Alliteration – silly soup *Voice sounds *Oral segmenting and blending of familiar words
(Sound talk) AB
P – i - p

9. Phase 1 activities

10. Listening walk

11. Alliteration

12. Examples of Activities:
Stage 1 Phonics
Children learn 23 sounds and how to blend sounds in words, to support reading, and segmenting sounds to help with spelling and writing. It is not as easy as teaching A to Z! We teach the sounds in a particular order and way:
Examples of Activities:
Flashcards- Cursive/Print in books
Pronunciation is crucial
Initial sounds- Eye Spy
Tell me something that begins with a ‘b’,’d’,‘g’?
Sound Tennis
Texts in the environment. Find me a... (cereal toy
boxes, magazines, books)
Sounding out and blending orally
CVC blending/Sound Buttons
Crossing the river/Flashcards
Making and reading words – magnetic letters
Guess the picture (phase 1 song sheet)
Bingo LC

13. What our phonics sessions look like…

14. Reading With Your Child

15. When reading, encourage your child to ‘sound out’ unfamiliar words and then blend from left to right. Focusing particularly on spotting more unusual sound patterns.
Digraph – 2 letters making one sound e.g. rain
Trigraphs – 3 letters making one sound e.g. night
Split digraph – 2 vowels with a consonant in between. You may have called it magic e – spine – i_e
Use phonics when you speak: “it’s time to go to b-e-d.” There are lots of phonic games available for your child to access on the computer (listed on the next slide).

16. Useful Websites:
There are many useful websites that have helpful hints for parents and games for your child to practise reading real and nonsense words.
You Tube – song of sounds

17. Reading BK

18. My Ten Top Tips…
1.Choose a good time and place BK

19. 3. Let them hold the book and point to the words if needed.
2.Introduce the book
3. Let them hold the book and point to the words if needed.
4. If they don’t know a word…
Show me the tricky word
Run your finger along it
Can you sound it out?
What does the word look like?
What would make sense?
What sounds right?
Start the sentence again and have a guess
Break words up into smaller words
Are there any clues in the pictures?
BUT…If they’re struggling, tell them tricky names or words

20. 5. Don’t cover the pictures. It’s not cheating. 6
5. Don’t cover the pictures. It’s not cheating! 6. Check they understand the story. Ask them questions about the characters. 7. Use the song of sounds sheet to support.

21. 8. Re-read easy books. This encourages the belief... ‘I can read’
9. Talk about the punctuation.
10. Look for opportunities to read everywhere

22. Asking Questions Questions and statements that are generally
exploratory in tone are helpful
What makes you think that?
What do you think?
What words give you that impression?
How are they feeling?
Can you explain why?
Do you agree with ……’s opinion?
Do you like the bit where…..?
What would you do?

23. Questions?
Please feel free to stay and look at the phonics activities.