Welcome to

Our aims

1. Explain how phonics is taught in

Foundation and KS1.

2. Demonstrate the way of saying letter

sounds.

3. Provide you with some ideas and

activities for home.

5 Basic Skills

1. Learning the letter sounds

2. Letter formation

3. Blending

4. Identifying sounds in words

5. Tricky words

Letter Sounds

Letter sound order• There are 42 different letter sounds, which are divided into 7 groups.• The order in which the letter sounds are taught go from the simplest to the more complex letter sounds.• The first group of letters were chosen because you can make more simple, three-letter words than with any other combination of 6 letters. • This enables the children to start blending and reading words from the first week. This is hugely motivating for them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjJYB07aSU

Digraphs(two letters that make one sound)

Digraphs (two letters making one sound)

Practice Time!!!

Look through your handouts and try to make the sound represented by each letter or digraph (2

letters).

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/- is a good website for ideas to help children with reading

Please feel free to ask if you would like us to demonstrate any of the actions or sounds.

If children are unsure when reading a word give them the sound that they are struggling with and encourage them to use this to blend.

For example,

goat - if children read /g/ /o/ /a/ /t/, remind them that /o/ and /a/ together makes the /oa/ sound and encourage them to blend these three sounds together.

Pencil Hold

• Tripod grip

• ‘Froggy legs’

movement

Writing (identifying sounds in words)

* How many sounds can you hear?* What is the first sound?* What is the next sound? etc.

f i sh. . .

Oh no they spelt it rong!

The most important thing with children's early writing is understanding that getting the correct sound is more important than writing it with the

correct letter/s.

Alternative Vowel SoundsIntroduced in foundation: Alternatives taught later

in year one:

(rain) (play) (flame)

(feet)

(boat)

(leaf)

(snow) (bone)

(these)

* Children are grouped for phonics.

* Children work in smaller groups and groups are targeted towards

children’s individual needs.

Here are a variety of activities you can use and adapt to support

your child’s reading and writing

Sound Book

Flash Cards• What sound is this?• Find me a ....• Stick around room – children go on sound hunt.• Place sounds together and encourage children to

read words.• Ask children to make up word s using flash cards.• Hunt for objects around home starting with a given

sound.

Bingo Cards• Play bingo with words.

• Let children write own bingo cards and play bingo.

• Duplicate, cut words out and play snap.

• Matching pairs game.

• Turn words over and read.

Race Game

• Encourage children to read words that they land on using a dice.

• How many words can they read in a minute?

• Can they read it before you can?• Can they test your spelling (they read to

you)?• Use with sounds instead of words.

Words and Pictures

• Children write words for given pictures – linked to their likes.

• Children read given words and draw appropriate picture.

• Snap game – match words with pictures.

Metal Mike

• Robot to support segmenting – makes writing more fun.

• Also robot makes the mistake not the child so children are more willing to make attempts.

Top Tips

1. Little and often is the way forward with knowing all the sounds.

2. Praise children for good phonetic spelling attempts.

3. Most importantly reading and writing should be fun and meaningful!!! Christmas lists

Postcards Letters Stories

Recommended website to visit

www.jollylearning.co.uk

This website will play the sounds for you.