PhonicsPhonicsfor Parents for Parents

Thursday 15Thursday 15thth October October

ObjectiveObjective• To explain our approach to teaching

children early reading and writing skills.

• To help you support your children at home.

Phases of Letters and Phases of Letters and SoundsSounds

• Children are entitled to a 20 minute phonics session everyday.

• We follow a government publication called Letters and sounds.

• We use Jolly Phonics to support this.• There are 6 phases in Letters and Sounds.• The aim is for children to be fluent readers

by the time they have completed the program.

Phase 1Phase 1• Children should really come into

reception with a secure knowledge of Phase 1 – This is being able to tune into sounds, listen and remember sounds and to be able to talk about sounds. (Environmental, instrumental, body percussion and rhythm and rhyme.)

Phase 2 Phase 2

Learning 19 letters of the alphabet with one sound for each.

Set 1 s a t p Set 2 i n m dSet 3 g o c k Set 4 ck e u r Set 5 h b f,ff l,ll s,ss

Introducing a new soundIntroducing a new sound• When introducing a new sound, we

talk about the name, the sound and what it looks like. We brainstorm words that begin with this sound. We also have an action for each individual sound.

Blending• At the same time as teaching letter sounds

we also teach the children how to blend sequences of sounds in order to say or read a simple word.

• Children do not need to recognise letter sounds in order to blend.

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PictureMatch.html

BlendingBlending• We use ‘sound talk’ to blend simple

words.

• mum• can• box• nap

SegmentingSegmenting

Segmenting is the reverse of blending and is used to support spelling.

The children listen to the word they want to spell and break it sound into individual sounds.

Children do not need to record the letters in order to segment.

What sounds can you hear?What sounds can you hear?•

Tricky WordsTricky Words

• There are many words that we can not sound out, we call these tricky words.

• E.g. the, to , I , no, go, into

Phase 3Phase 3We teach the rest of the 44 sounds.

Many of these have 2 or more letters. j v w x y z, zz qu ch sh th ng ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er

BlendingBlending• Can you blend the sounds together

to read these words?• shop• chip• sail• queen• boat• fight

SegmentingSegmenting• When spelling phase 3 words we

count the sounds, not the letters.

Phase 3 Tricky wordsPhase 3 Tricky wordsmyheshewemebewasyoutheyall are her

Phase 4Phase 4

• No new sounds.

• Longer words with adjacent consonants

• tr, sn, sm, pl, • mp, st, nt• spl, scr, nch

Blending Phase 4 wordsBlending Phase 4 words

snailcrunchcrashspoonfloathelp

flighttreesplashcrunchbunchspent

Segmenting Phase 4 WordsSegmenting Phase 4 Words

Phase 4 Tricky wordsPhase 4 Tricky words• said • have • like • so • do • some • come • were • there • little • one • when • out • what

Phase 5Phase 5• We aim for the children to be starting

phase 5 by the start of year 1.

• In phase 5 children are introduced to alternative representations for different sounds.

• E.g. ai, ay, a-e

Reading BooksReading Books• We start children off with phonic

readers that have a few tricky or sight words.

Other StrategiesOther Strategies • When confident blending we look at

other ways of decoding words.• Initial sound• Context• Pictures

Useful WebsitesUseful Websites• http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/• http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Phase2Menu.htm• http://ictgames.com/literacy.html• http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/cll/letters-

and-sounds/• http://www.twinkl.co.uk/• http://www.topmarks.co.uk/

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