Phonics Workshop Year 1 In school we follow

Phonics Workshop Year 1

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.

TERMINOLOGY Phoneme (sound made) Graphemes (letter/s representing that sound) Blending (putting sounds together to read, e. g. c-a-t -> cat) Segmenting (splitting sounds up to spell, e. g. cat -> c-a-t)

TERMINOLOGY Digraph/Trigraph/Quadgraph (1 sound made by 2/3/4 letters, e. g. ‘ee’, ‘igh’, or ‘aigh’) Split digraph (2 sound made by 2 letters which are split in the middle, e. g. cake or pile )

PHASE 1 This is started in Nursery and all our children are now past this stage. n There are 7 aspects with 3 strands. n A 1 – Environmental n A 2 – Instrumental sounds n A 3 – Body Percussion n A 4 – Rhythm and rhyme n A 5 – Alliteration n A 6 – Voice sounds n A 7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

PHASE 2 n. 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

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

n. This PHASE 4 phase consolidates all the phonemes the children have learnt in the previous phases n. Practises consonant blends at the start and end of words (splash, paint).

PHASE 5 n Digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au n Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

n Some PHASE 5 of these are alternate graphemes (spellings) for the phonemes (sounds) they already know, e. g. ‘ea’ which makes the same sound as ‘ee’. n Also, alternative phonemes (sounds) for the graphemes (spellings) they already know, e. g. they know ‘ow’ as in cow they learn ‘ow’ as in snow.

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

If you are not sure whether your child is saying their sounds correctly, don’t worry- use the following website to hear all of the sounds: n www. readwithphonics. com -> left-hand menu -> scroll down to ‘phonics soundwall’ -> click the grapheme to hear the phoneme (sound) - Ordered by phase No ‘sloppy’ sounds (e. g. ‘m’ should be read as ‘mmm’ not ‘mer’) - Linked graphemes all have the same sound -

BLENDING Building words from phonemes to read. This is simple with 3 letters, 3 sounds: c a t cat

BLENDING But although this word has 5 letters, it still only has 3 sounds: qu ee n queen

SEGMENTING Breaking down words to hear the separate sounds to spell them. cat c a t

SEGMENTING queen qu ee n

WHAT DOES A PHONICS LESSON LOOK LIKE? Revisit/review Quick practice of phonemes learnt so far. Teach new phoneme, e. g. air Practice Play game to read real and nonsense words using that sound: air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair, vair, sair, thair Read captions: The girl had long hair. The pair had fun at the fair. Apply

RESOURCES http: //www. phonicsplay. co. uk (free games available, no need to subscribe)

www. readwithphonics. com

YEAR 1 PHONICS CHECK