1. Meadgate Primary School Thursday 22 nd October 2015 PHONICS TALK

2. AIMS OF TODAY Teach some useful phonics terms Outline the different stages of phonics Share how phonics is taught at Meadgate Primary School Show examples of activities and resources we use to teach phonics Give you an opportunity to ask questions Develop your confidence in helping your children with phonics and reading

3. PHONICS IS ALL ABOUT USING… Learning phonics will help your child to become a good reader and writer. skills for reading and spelling knowledge of the alphabet +

4. TERMINOLOGY Phonemes: The smallest units of sound that are found within a word (the sounds you can hear) Grapheme: The spelling of the sound (the letters you can see) Digraph: Two letters that make one sound when read - ee Trigraphs: Three letters that make one sound - igh CVC: Stands for consonant, vowel, consonant – dog, lock Segmenting:Breaking up a word into its sounds Blending: Putting the sounds together to read a word Tricky words: Words that cannot easily be decoded - go

5. PHASE 1 GETTING READY FOR PHONICS This phase involves: Tuning into sounds Listening & remembering sounds Talking about sounds. Within 7 aspects: 1 – Environmental 2 – Instrumental sounds 3 – Body Percussion 4 – Rhythm and rhyme 5 – Alliteration 6 – Voice sounds 7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

6. PHASE 2 THE FIRST 19 PHONEMES Set 1: s, a, t, p Set 2: i, n, m, d Set 3: g, o, c, k Set 4: ck, e, u, r Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

7. PHASE 3 A FURTHER 25 PHONEMES Set 6: j, v, w, x Set 7: y, z, zz, qu Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng Vowel digraphs & trigraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er

8. PHASE 4 CONSOLIDATION This phase consolidates what the children have learnt in the previous phases. Introduces adjacent consonants (e.g. flag) Introduces polysyllabic words (e.g. windmill)

9. PHASE 5 ALTERNATIVES New graphemes and their alternative pronunciations Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

10. LEARNING ALL THE VARIATIONS! The same phoneme using different graphemes: burn first term heard work The same grapheme representing different phonemes: meatbread hebed bearhear cowlow

11. PHASE 6 SUPPORT FOR SPELLINGS Focuses on spellings and learning rules for spelling alternatives: Look at syllables, base words, suffixes & prefixes, analogy and mnemonics Learn about past tense, rules for adding ‘ing’ and irregular verbs.

12. A PHONICS LESSON Revisit/ReviewPractise phonemes, high frequency and tricky words learnt previously http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member- only/BuriedTreasure2.html http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member- only/BuriedTreasure2.html TeachTeach new phoneme, grapheme, strategy or word PracticePlay game or experiment with new information ApplyRead/write sentence containing new information 20 minute daily session

13. SEGMENTING Breaking down words for spelling Hear a whole word & say every sound within cat

14. SEGMENTING queen

15. BLENDING Building words from phonemes to read Hear separate sounds in a word, blend them together & say whole word. c a t

16. BLENDING qu ee n

17. YEAR 1 PHONICS TEST

18. HOW TO HELP AT HOME Play I Spy using letter names and sounds Play games online Robot game – sound talk words like a robot, e.g. b- u-s instead of bus Read and write silly sentences & fake words Physical activities – water pistol, chalk, ball, fly swat Ask “Do you think it looks right?” and encourage them to explore alternative spellings

19. HOW TO HELP AT HOME - READING Little & often everyday Point to each letter & say individual sounds aloud Read words by blending (pushing) sounds together Use terms – letters & words (and/or phonics terms if feeling brave!) Ask “Does that sound right?” and “Does it sound like a word you know?” Encourage use of pictures or reading around words to check guesses make sense Encourage reading of ‘tricky words’ by sight (not sounded out) Ask questions to check understanding Be positive and comment on effort and use of strategies.

20. USEFUL WEBSITES Oxford Owl - http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/expert-help/phonics-made-easy Includes recordings of how individual sounds are pronounced and how sounds are blended. Cbeebies – Alphablocks Guide to Phonics - http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics A parents’ guide on how phonics works, including guidance videos on how to help your child read Jolly Phonics - http://jollylearning.co.uk/2010/10/29/hear-the-letter-soundshttp://jollylearning.co.uk/2010/10/29/hear-the-letter-sounds Shows the order in which the sounds are taught. It includes recordings of the individual sounds, alongside actions and letter formation rhymes. Mr Thorne - http://mrthorne.com/http://mrthorne.com/ Videos to support the teaching of phonics. Phonics Play - http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/index.htmhttp://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/index.htm Fun and interactive games to help children practise using phonics knowledge and skills.

21. ANY QUESTIONS?