1. Year 1 Phonics Workshop Westcliff Primary School 2013

2. Aims To share how phonics is taught in Year 1
To develop your confidence in helping your children with phonics and reading
To show examples of activities and resources we use to teach phonics
To share websites which parents can use to support their children

3. What is phonics and how can I help my child at home?

4. + Phonics is all about using … knowledge of the alphabet
skills for reading and spelling +
Learning phonics will help your child to become a good reader and writer.

5. Phonics Words
Your children will learn to use the term:
phoneme
Phonemes are the separate sounds that can be heard in words
e.g. c-a-t
b-oa-t

6. Saying the phonemes
Phonemes should be articulated clearly and precisely.
There are actions to go with most of the sounds – demo/sheet

7. Say the sounds
d m h s ch
ng ee igh er ai

8. Use the sheet to try out the sounds and actions
Your turn !
Use the sheet to try out the sounds and actions

9. Phonics Words Blending for reading
Children need to be able to hear the separate phonemes in a word and then blend them together to say the whole word .

10. Blending
/b/ /e/ /d/ = bed
/t/ /i/ /n/ = tin
/m/ /u/ /g/ = mug

11. How many phonemes are in these words?
What’s in the box ?
How many phonemes are in these words?

12. Like this…..
There are 3 phonemes in this word l ea f

13. Try blending to read these words to read them
gorspring phighly
thoack
implode straight

14. Phonics Words Segmenting(for spelling)
Children need to be able to hear a whole word and say every sound that they hear .
When they can do this and recall most of
phonemes they need- they are well on
their way to being independent writers.

15. Segmenting
bed = /b/ /e/ /d/
tin= /t/ /i/ /n/
mug= /m/ /u/ /g/

16. Phonics Words grapheme
Your children will learn to use the term:
grapheme
This is how a phoneme is written down – could be 1 letter or 2 or 3
h ch igh

17. Phonics Words
Your children will learn to use the term:
digraph
This means that the phoneme comprises of two letters
e.g. ll, ff, ck, ss

18. Tricky Words
There are many words that cannot be blended or segmented because they are irregular.
the was said you some
We learn these as whole words.

19. Phase 3: Learning the long vowel phonemes
Children will enter phase 3 once they know the first 19 phonemes and can blend and segment to read and spell CVC words.
They will learn another 26 phonemes:
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
They learn to read words like-
pain,thing,beard,coins,sure etc

20. Phonics Words Trigraph
Your children will learn to use the term:
Trigraph
This means that the phoneme comprises of three letters
e.g. igh , ear, ure

21. Phase 4: Year 1 Introducing consonant clusters: reading and spelling words with four or more phonemes
Children move into phase 4 when they know all the phonemes from phases 2 and 3 and can use them to read and spell simple words (blending to read and segmenting to spell).
Phase 4 doesn’t introduce any new phonemes.
It focuses on reading and spelling longer words with the phonemes they already know.
These words have consonant clusters at the beginning: sport, trip, clap, green, clown
…or at the end: tent, mend, damp, burnt
…or at the beginning and end! trust, spend,
twist.

22. Phonics Play – free games

23. Phase 5- where it gets complicated…. Still Yr 1!!
Teach new graphemes for reading
ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e
Learn alternative pronunciations of graphemes (the same grapheme can represent more than one phoneme):
Fin/find, hot/cold, cat/cent, got/giant, but/put, cow/blow, tie/field, eat/bread, farmer/her, hat/what, yes/by/very, chin/school/chef, out/shoulder/could/you. .

24. Learning all the variations!
Learning that the same phoneme can be represented in more than one way:
burn
first
term
heard
work

25. Learning all the variations!
Learning that the same grapheme can represent more than one phoneme:
meat bread
he bed
bear hear
cow low

26. Teaching the split digraph
tie time
toe tone
cue cube
pie pine

27. Look at the Phonic Screening Test What’s expected…?

28. Is there anything I can do at home?

29. Reading Use the sounds and actions to support their reading at home
Try to read for a short time every day or at least 3 times a week
Make a comment about any phonemes they are struggling with from banded books
Play phonic games on Phonics Play
Look at Mr Thorne does Phonics for info
Praise them all the time!
eg.’I liked the way you blended those sounds in that word’
‘Well done you remembered the igh sound!’

30. Spelling: tray trai rain rayn light lIt
Use the phonic mat to support independent choices
Make phonic cards from Phonics Play for playing games
Buy some magnetic letters for blending and segmenting
When spelling, encourage your child to think
about what “looks right”.
Practise tricky words
Have fun trying out different options…wipe clean whiteboards/pens are good for trying out spellings.
tray trai
rain rayn
light lIt

31. What can we help you with ?
And finally….
Any questions?
What can we help you with ?