2. Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Hillsgrove Primary School Phonics and Early Reading Monday 4 th February 2013

3. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk How do we read unfamiliar words? ethnomusicologist

4. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Outline What is phonics Subject knowledge Articulation of phonemes The reading process How you can help at home

5. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Phonemes The smallest unit of sound in a word. There are 44 phonemes in the English language

6. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Graphemes Letters representing a phoneme for example: c ai igh Children need to recognise the grapheme and say the phoneme that it represents

7. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Phonics Letters and Sounds The school teaches phonics every single day in KS1. It is the prime approach to decoding words on the page Sounds (phonemes) Single sounds, a,m,n; digraphs, ch, sh, ai; trigraphs, igh, dge, Pupils also need to know the the alphabet; letter names and alphabetical order

8. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Progression in phonics First sounds - early days s a t p i n m n d g o c ch, sh, th, ll, ss More complex sounds (here are just a few) Reception into Y1 ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, wh, au, i-e,

9. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Letters and phonemes (sounds) Letters: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Some of the 140 (approx.) letter combinations illustrated within words: cat, look, would, put, peg, bread, cart, fast, pig, wanted, burn, first, term, heard, work, log, want, torn, door, warn, plug, love, haul, law, call, pain, day, gate, station, wooden, circus, sister, sweet, heat, thief, these, down, shout, tried, light, my, shine, mind, coin, boy, road, blow, bone, cold, stairs, bear, hare, moon, blue, grew, tune, fear, beer, here, baby, sun, mouse, city, science, dog, tap, field, photo, van, game, was, hat, where, judge, giant, barge, yes, cook, quick, mix, Chris, zebra, please, is, lamb, then, monkey, comb, thin, nut, knife, gnat, chip, watch, paper, ship, mission, chef, rabbit, wrong, treasure, ring, sink. Phonemes: s/a/t/p/i/n/m/d/g/o/c/k/ck/e/u/r/h/b/f/ff/l/ll/ss/j/v/w/x/y/z/zz/qu/ch/sh/th/th/ ng/ai/ee/igh/oa/oo/oo/ar/or/ur/ow/oi/ear/air/ure/er/

10. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Articulation of phonemes It is important to use ‘soft’ sounds when working children as this helps them as learners to blend sound together more easily

11. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Phoneme grapheme correspondences /a//b//c//d//e//f//g/h//i//j//k/ /l//m//n//o//p/q (u) /r//s//t//u//v/ /w//x//y//z/shchthngaieeigh oaoo uroreraroiairearure

12. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Blending Sounding out (blending phonemes) left to right c –a – t, sh – ee – p, g – oa – t, w – e – n - t

13. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Segmenting To hear a word and split it into its component phonemes For example the word ‘sheep’ will sound out sh-ee-p ‘Wednesday’ will sound out ‘W-e-d-n-e-s-d-ay’

14. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Tricky words Words that are not phonically decodeable For example: was, the, no, some, said, people

15. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Phonic screening at Y1 Word reading test Contains 40 words, 20 real words and 20 non-words Range from cvc words cat, vap or cvcc words such as fold, jound Normally takes just a few minutes The check is carefully designed not to be stressful for your child

16. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Sample words from the screening test bem hend strom

17. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk The reading process The simple view of reading Decoding the words on the page Understanding what has been read Both MUST happen during the reading process

18. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Reading for meaning Recall basic information from texts read, ie names of characters, places, funny parts of the story, Make simples inferences, for example how a character is feeling, predict what might happen next Express likes and dislikes in their reading Read or listen to a story and also read for information

19. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Scheme books are for teaching children the skills of reading When your child gets stuck on a word, help them to look for bits in the word they already know. Help children to blend (join the sounds) words they cannot read. If the word is really tricky, tell them

20. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Reading books develop understanding Tip: never let your child struggle with a word! Which words might you have to read for your child? Daisy and the Egg © Jane Simmons 1999

21. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Reading books to develop understanding Which words might you have to talk about with your child to help them understand the story fully? Harquin © John Burningham 1967

22. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Speaking, listening and communicating Talk confidently in a range of different contexts Listen carefully and respond to others thoughtfully Discuss ideas and covey views and opinions with consideration Develop an increasing bank of vocabulary and use a variety of words both in speech and in their writing Have an awareness of, and use some of the features of standard English

23. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Speaking and listening

24. www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Listening to you, working for you www.bexley.gov.uk Most of all …...reading should always be a wonderful experience