1. St Mary’s PS Dunsford Literacy Evening

2. St Mary’s PS, Dunsford St Mary’s PS, Dunsford  Objectives  Understand what is meant by Linguistic Phonics  Know sounds that we teach in school.  Know how sounds are written.  Have some resources.

3. St Mary’s PS Dunsford Why Phonics?  Research suggests that all children need strategies to decode words in the very difficult English language which we use.  We need to teach the children the code of English language.

4. St Mary’s PS Dunsford  1) Phonological awareness – sounds in the environment, sounds in words at beginning, middle and end and syllables.

5. St Mary’s PS Dunsford St Mary’s PS Dunsford  Linguistic Phonics 2) Segmenting and blending Eg: c a t What sounds can you hear in cat? How many?

6. St Mary’s PS Dunsford St Mary’s PS Dunsford  Linguistic Phonics  5 Stages  In P2 children meet all the stages either informally or formally. Some children are more ready than others.

7. St Mary’s PS Dunsford St Mary’s PS Dunsford  Lingusitic Phonics Stage 1 - cvc eg hat, pet, van etc Stage 2 – camp, fast etc Stage 3 – robin, petal, Dublin Stage 4 – double letter words ill, off, rabbit Stage 5 – boat, bow, home, toe

8. St Mary’s PS Dunsford What can you do at home?  Sing Nursery rhymes  Read stories  Find sounds in words in take home books.  Magnetic letters.  Make, paint, write sounds  Play Bingo, Snap, Pairs, games sent home.