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2. Phonics at WPS 30 minutes each day.
Letters and Sounds - 6 distinct phases.
Work within the phase appropriate to their level of learning.
Regularly assessed and groupings sorted accordingly.

3. Phonics at a glace Phonics is… Skills of segmentation and blending
Knowledge of the alphabetic code.

4. How many phonemes can you hear?
Definitions
A Phoneme
This is the smallest unit of sound in a word.
How many phonemes can you hear?
cat

5. The grapheme could be 1 letter, 2 letters or more!
Definitions
A grapheme
These are the letters that represent the phoneme.
The grapheme could be 1 letter, 2 letters or more!
t ai igh

6. Grapheme related key vocabulary
Diagraph
Trigraph
Split diagraph
2 letters making one sound (ai, ee, oo)
3 letters making one sound (igh, air, dge)
Where the two letters are not adjacent
(a-e, e-e)

7. Learning phonics… Identifying sounds in spoken words
Recognising common spellings ‘ai’ ‘ee’ ‘ch’
Blending phonemes into words for reading.
c-a-t = cat
Segmenting words into phonemes for spelling.
dog = d-o-g

8. Tricky stuff!
A phoneme can be represented in more than one way (cat, kennel, choir, clock)
The same grapheme may represent more than one phoneme ( me, met)

9. Challenge! ee (meet) ey (key) e-e (theme) e (me) ea (tea) y (happy)
How many different ways can you write the grapheme ‘ee’?
ee (meet)
e-e (theme)
ea (tea)
ey (key)
e (me)
y (happy)
ie (chief)

10. Phonic phases
Phase 1 - Rhyming patterns, nursery rhymes, body percussion (home)
Phase 2 - common singular phonemes - s, a, t, p, i, n (EYFS)
Phase 3 - digraphs and trigraphs - ch, sh, th, igh (Year 1)
Phase 4 - consolidation, blending & segmenting (Year 1)
Phase 5 - alternative graphemes - ay, i-e, ea, ie (Year 1)
Phase 6 – GPS (Year 2)

11. Spellings! Weekly test Back of book – New Spellings.
Front of book – test (with scores!)
Common Exception Words (CEW)
Maths vocabulary.

12. Your turn! 

13. Sound the same Different spellings Different meanings
Homophones
Sound the same Different spellings Different meanings
their – The teachers park their car in the carpark.
there – The cat is over there.
they’re – They’re going to the park.

14. Put each of these homophones into their own sentence:
Your
you’re witch
which
Your hair looks pretty.
You’re very kind.
The witch is wicked.
Which way should I go?

15. Singular = only one Plural = more than one
Plural / Singular
Singular = only one Plural = more than one

16. Plural / Singular
Adding ‘s’ or ‘es’ If a word ends with s, ss, x, ch, sh, you add ‘es’. For most other graphemes, add ‘s’.

17. Add ‘s’ or ‘es’ to the following words:
Plural / Singular
Add ‘s’ or ‘es’ to the following words:
bus = elephant = box = church = dish =
buses
elephants
boxes
churches
dishes

18. Added to the end of a root word. -ful -ness -ly
Suffixes
Added to the end of a root word. -ful -ness -ly
helpful happiness lovely

19. Added to the beginning of a root word. dis-
Prefixes
Added to the beginning of a root word. dis-
un-
im-
discontinued
unhappy
impossible

20. Add un-, -ness, -ly, or -ful to these words:
Suffixes & Prefixes
Add un-, -ness, -ly, or -ful to these words:
happy
careful
love
help
unhappy happiness
carefully lovely
helpful unhelpful

21. Sentence types
4 types: Statement – ends with . Question – ends with ? Command – ends with . or ! Exclamation – starts with what or how, ends with !
Write a sentence for each of these.

22. Sentence types
Statement – The pen is red. Question – What would you like for lunch? Command – Pass me the pen. or Stop that, now! Exclamation – How beautiful the weather is today! or What an adorable puppy you have!

23. Other useful sites: www.ictgames.com/literacy.html www.phonicsplay.com
– online version is free to sign up to!

24. Reading 5 x per week (ideal)
Variety of texts (DVD cases, cook book, instructions for toys/games, TV synopsis)
Books at home
Record in yellow diaries please!

25. Similarities / differences / real life
Reading continued…
Fluency
Accuracy
Understanding
Similarities / differences / real life

26. BUG CLUB www.activelearnprimary.co.uk Login Counts as a read!
Answer the questions

27. Further Information www.wickfordprimary.uk Check our school website
Ask your child’s teacher

28. support with your child’s
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