Phonics Parents Workshop November 2013 In school we

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.

A phonics quiz 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) What is a phoneme? How many phonemes are in the word ‘strap’? What is a digraph? Give an example of a consonant digraph. What is a CVC word? Give an example. What is a ‘trigraph’? Give an example How many phonemes are in the word ‘twenty’?

A phonics quiz 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 diagraph. 5) What is a CVC word? 6) Give an example 7) What is a ‘trigraph’? 8) Give an example 9) How many phonemes are in the word ‘twenty’? A unit of sound. 5 Two letters which make one sound. ch sh ll th consonant-vowel-consonant Three letters which make one sound. igh 6

PHASE 1 There are 7 aspects with 3 strands. A 1 – Environmental A 2 – Instrumental sounds A 3 – Body Percussion A 4 – Rhythm and rhyme A 5 – Alliteration A 6 – Voice sounds A 7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

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

CVC words: Which of these are CVC words? pig ship boy fill song day whizz sheep car cow whip for miss huff

CVC words: p ig s sheep hip b o y X car X cow. X f ill whip s ong for X d ay X miss w hizz huff

Examples of: CCVC, CVCC, CCCVC and CCVCC black strong felt blank spoon cried nest

Examples of: CCVC, CVCC, CCCVC and CCVCC black ccv c strong cccv c felt cvcc blank ccvcc spoon ccvc cried ccv c nest cvcc

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

This PHASE 4 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

The PHASE 6 focus is on learning spelling rules for suffixes. -s -er -ful -est -ly -ing -y -ment -ed -en -ness

SEGMENTING Breaking down words for spelling. cat c a t

SEGMENTING Queen qu ee n

BLENDING Building words from phonemes to read. c a t cat

BLENDING Qu ee n queen

YEAR 1 PHONICS TEST Pass score 32 out of 40 Retake at the end of year 2. Read a mixture of real and pseudo words.

WHAT DOES A PHONICS LOOK LIKE? LESSON Revisit/review Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far. Teach new phoneme a_e Practice Buried treasure glake, came, make, made, stame, escake, take, afraze, nade. 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? Apply

A typical phonics lesson…

RESOURCES www. 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