1. Phonics Workshop
12th October 2015

2. In school, we are following the Letters and Sounds programme.
Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education and Skills which consists of six phases, covered from Nursery to Year 6 where necessary.
Children working at Phase 2 will also be supported by some aspects of Jolly Phonics such songs, pictures and actions.

3. Letter sounds/Phonemes
When teaching phonics we always refer to the letter sound or phoneme.
d m s t
Letter Names
Once phonetics are secure, we introduce letter names.
D M S T

4. Phase 1: Nursery There are 7 aspects with 3 strands.
A1 – Environmental
A2 – Instrumental sounds
A3 – Body Percussion
A4 – Rhythm and rhyme
A5 – Alliteration
A6 – Voice sounds
A7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

5. Phase 2
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

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

7. Phase 4
This phase consolidates all the sounds that children have learnt in the previous phases. There is greater focus now on application.

8. Phase 5
Children will be taught new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes.
Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au
Split digraphs:
a_e - cake u_e - huge
i_e – kite o_e - hope

9. Phase 6 -s -es -ing -ed -er -est -y -en -ful -ly -ment -ness
The focus is on learning spelling rules for suffixes…
-s -es -ing ed
-er est -y en
-ful -ly -ment -ness
…and being able to use these in
sentences.

10. Segmenting
Breaking down words for spelling using phoneme fingers
cat
c a t

11. You try…
queen

12. In context The queen has been to see the bee.
Using sounds in words when writing.
The queen has been to see the bee.
The fat cat sat on the rat’s hat.

13. Building words from phonemes to read.
Blending
Building words from phonemes to read.
c a t
cat

14. You try…
sh ee p sheep

15. Reading the sounds in words and sentences.
In context
Reading the sounds in words and sentences.
The queen has bees on her feet.
The cat sat on the mat near the bat.

16. Common exception words
Cannot be sounded out. said like was the come saw were Look and Say Words

17. What does a Phonics lesson look like?
Revisit/review
Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far.
Teach
Teach new phoneme air
Practice
Game: Buried treasure
air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair, vair, sair, thair
Apply
Read/write
Read captions:
The goat had a long beard.
The quack was right in his ear.

18. Websites http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk

19. PHONICS JOURNAL

20. SPELLING JOURNALS

21. Year 1 Phonics Test

22. Enjoy learning and growing together!
Thank you for coming!