1. Phonics Workshop

2. Welcome! What is phonics? ‘Phonics is the method of teaching reading which focuses on the relationship between sound(phonemes) and letters (graphemes)’ (Whitehead, M 2010) What is synthetic phonics? Synthetic phonics requires decoding knowledge of all 26 letters and their corresponding sounds in order to read. Blending is required and tricky words need to be remembered (Whitehead, M 2010). like little the

3. Why do we teach phonics? Rose Review: ‘...shows that the systematic approach, which is generally understood as 'synthetic' phonics, offers the vast majority of young children the best and most direct route to becoming skilled readers and writers.’(Rose, 2006,p.4)

4. Fun. Engaging. Meaningful Rhymes help with grapheme awareness, syllables and rhythm. Logos are easily recognisable print. Sharing books helps create interest in reading. Reading and writing is everywhere!

5. Engaging Children with Phonics Discrete activities, drip feeding and concentrating on initial sounds in words. Environmental sounds, Fred talk and rhymes.

6. Green and red words These words do not fit the sound rules and are called irregular. We call them Red words and children learn to read them on sight.

8. Lesson format In each year group, phonic lessons follow the same format: Revise: The children will revise previous learning. Teach: New phonemes or high frequency or tricky words will be taught. Practice: The children will practise the new learning by reading and/or writing the words. Apply: The children will apply their new learning by reading or writing sentences.

9. Phonic learning is fun!

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

11. Some Definitions grapheme This is the written version of a phoneme. The grapheme could be 1 letter, 2 letters or more! We often refer to these as sound buttons: t digraph ai trigraph igh

12. Once children are good with single phonemes… DIGRAPHS – 2 letters that make 1 sound ll ss zz oa ai ball miss buzz boat rain TRIGRAPHS – 3 letters that make 1 sound igh dge night edge

13. Segmenting and blending Segmenting requires children to listen to phonemes in words and remember the order in which they occur (DCSF, 2008) Blending requires children to blending the phonemes together and recognise the whole word (DCSF, 2008) Run-----r-u-n-----run Park----- p-ar-k-----park Swing----- s-w-i-ng-----swing Picnic----- p-i-c-n-i-c-----picnic Lunch----- l-u-n-ch-----lunch

14. Early Learning Goals Reading: Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. Writing: Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.

15. Resources http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/DragonsDen.html www.ictgames.com http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html http://www.stmargaretsinf.medway.sch.uk/medway/prim ary/stmargarets- inf/arenas/websitecontentcommunity/web/readwriteincha ndwritingrhymesletterforwebsite.pdf http://www.stmargaretsinf.medway.sch.uk/medway/prim ary/stmargarets- inf/arenas/websitecontentcommunity/web/readwriteincha ndwritingrhymesletterforwebsite.pdf http://www.stmargaretsinf.medway.sch.uk/medway/prim ary/stmargarets- inf/web/biggerrwitablepromptorfriezeforwebsite.pdf http://www.stmargaretsinf.medway.sch.uk/medway/prim ary/stmargarets- inf/web/biggerrwitablepromptorfriezeforwebsite.pdf

16. Summary Learning to read requires a complex set of skills. A solid foundation of good speaking and listening skills is required. Little and often, fun and interesting! Every child progresses at different rates. Synthetic phonics is the tradition method of teaching children to read. Stop if your child is not ready yet... run with it if they are!

17. Please feel free to have a go at some of the activities that your children enjoy in their phonic sessions. Thankyou. Have a go!