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Phonics Parents Workshop
November 2013
In school, we follow 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.
1) What is a phoneme?2) How many phonemes are in the word ‘strap’? 3) What is a digraph? 4) Give an example of a consonant digraph.5) What is a CVC word? 6) Give an example.7) What is a ‘trigraph’? 8) Give an example9) How many phonemes are in the word ‘twenty’?
A phonics quiz
1) What is a phoneme? A unit of sound.2) How many phonemes are in the word ‘strap’? 53) What is a digraph? Two letters which make one
sound.4) Give an example of a consonant diagraph. ch sh ll th5) What is a CVC word? consonant-vowel-consonant6) Give an example 7) What is a ‘trigraph’? Three letters which make one
sound.8) Give an example igh9) How many phonemes are in the word ‘twenty’? 6
A phonics quiz
PHASE 1 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.
PHASE 2Set 1: s, a, t, pSet 2: i, n, m, dSet 3: g, o, c, kSet 4: ck, e, u, rSet 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss
p i g s h e e ps h i p c a rb o y c o wf i l l w h i p s o n g f o rd a y m i s s w h i z z h u f f
CVC words: Which of these are CVC words?
CVC words: p i g sheep s h i p c a r X b o y X c o w X f i l l w h i p s o n g f o r X d a y X m i s s
w h i z z huff
Examples of: CCVC, CVCC, CCCVC and CCVCC
b l a c k s t r o n g
f e l t b l a n k
s p o o n c r i e d
n e s t
Examples of: CCVC, CVCC, CCCVC and CCVCC
b l a c k s t r o n gc c v c c c c v c
f e l t b l a n kc v c c c c v c c
s p o o n c r i e dc c v c c c v c
n e s t c v c c
PHASE 3Set 6: j, v, w, xSet 7: y, z, zz, quConsonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng
Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er
PHASE 4This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases.
PHASE 5 Children will be taught new graphemes and
alternative pronunciations for these graphemes.
Developing automaticity (A child can read words with 100% accuracy, but if those words are not read rapidly enough to get a complete thought in working memory within the 10 second constraint, comprehension will be difficult).
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
PHASE 6The focus is on learning spelling rules for suffixes.
-s -es -ing -ed-er -est -y -en-ful -ly -ment -ness
SEGMENTINGBreaking down words for spelling.
catc a t
SEGMENTING
Queenqu ee n
BLENDINGBuilding words from phonemes to
read.
c a tcat
BLENDING
Qu ee nqueen
YEAR 1 PHONICS TEST
Pass score 32 out of 40Retake at the end of year 2.Read a mixture of real and
pseudo words.
WHAT DOES A PHONICS LESSON LOOK LIKE?
Revisit/review Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far.
Teach Teach new phoneme a_e
Practice Buried treasureglake, came, make, made, stame, escake, cake, take, afraze, nade.
Apply Read captions:It will amaze me if you can escape from this maze.When the Romans came to invade, they made great long roads.Can a snake have a race with a whale in a lake?
A typical phonics lesson…
RESOURCESwww.phonicsplay.co.uk – some games
are free.
Pocket Phonics - £1.99 at the app store. It goes through all the phases and
segments and blends.
SOME ACTIVITIES…
Courgettes – adding –ed sheet.Cauliflowers – Sentences board
game.Leeks – Split digraph dice game.
Peppers – phoneme spotting.Onions – IPads – pocket phonics