1. Phonics & Reading at St Patrick’s Letters and Sounds Synthetic Phonics How can we support the reader – Prompts to use Comprehension St Patrick’s Reading Scheme Resources for help with phonics

2. Letters and Sounds Phase 1 – Nursery – 7 aspects: environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body sounds, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and oral blending and segmenting Phase 2 – Reception – s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss Phase 3 – Reception – 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 Phase 4 – Reception/Yr 1 - No new grapheme-phoneme correspondences are taught in this phase. Children learn to blend and segment longer words with adjacent consonants, e.g. swim, clap, jump Phase 5 – Yr 1/2 - Now we move on to the "complex code". Children learn more graphemes for the phonemes which they already know e.g. ai / ay / a-e Phase 6 – Yr 2 and beyond - Working on spelling, including prefixes and suffixes, doubling and dropping letters etc

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2Ddf_0Om8&list=PL021AF694334818B6 Phonics Pronunciation of Pure sounds

4. Phonics games Sound buttons – single sound: dot digraph: line Matching pictures to words Buried Treasure Snap based on phoneme Cross the river Sentence substitution Timing challenges

5. Visual – does that look right? Structure – does that sound right? Meaning – does that make sense? What is happening when we read?

6. What are the characteristics of a good reader? Independent reader Reads for meaning Monitors their own reading Fluent Expression (character voices) Word analysis Comprehends the text Reads frequently and reads a variety of texts.

7. Comprehension Developing Understanding Comprehension (understanding) develops through Asking questions Discussion Reflection Evaluation and analysis of texts Rereading and justifying views with reference to the text.

8. Class teachers responsibility Changing of children’s readings books Key words Running Records St Patrick’s Reading Scheme Oxford Reading Tree

9. Useful websites and Apps Websites www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize www.oxfordowl.co.uk www.phonicsplay.co.uk www.educationcity.co.uk www.twinkl.co.uk

10. Apps for Ipad Twinkl Collins Big Cat Pocket phonics Read with Biff, Chip and Kipper (some apps are free others have a cost)