Supporting your child with Phonics Thameside Primary School

Supporting your child with Phonics Thameside Primary School Foundation Stage

We encourage children to develop a love of books through: • Sharing stories, rhymes and non-fiction texts which will engage the children • Using different voices, visual props, eg puppets • Encouraging children to join in with actions, sounds, repeated phrases

Pre-reading skills • Using books with pictures and no text • Oral story-telling • Joining in with repeated phrases, particularly from familiar stories • Acting out stories • Joining in with rhyming words

Developing listening skills • • In the Nursery and Reception classes, we focus on developing children’s listening skills. Children need to be able to distinguish everyday sounds, and remember a series of sounds before they are ready to learn letter sounds. We develop children’s listening skills by focusing on: Environmental sounds Instrumental Sounds Body Percussion Rhythm and Rhyme Alliteration Voice Sounds Oral Blending and Segmenting

Moving on with phonics • As children are ready, we will begin to introduce the letter sounds. We will introduce one or two letters each week, and will encourage children to put them together to make words right from the start s a t p sat, pat, tap etc. • We teach the children letter sounds not names to help them blend sounds to read words

Correct pronunciation • It’s very important to teach the ‘pure’ sounds to ensure children can use them to blend properly! • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Bqh. XU W_v-1 s

Jolly Phonics! • We follow the Letters and Sounds progression but we support it by using Jolly Phonics’ actions and songs. These are available on You. Tube: • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Djz 82 F BYiug

Tricky words • We teach the children that there are some tricky words that can’t be sounded out, like I no go to the was were Tricky words are introduced gradually. These tricky words will be available in the classroom for children to practise using them in reading and writing

Group reading in Reception • Each week, we will read with children in small groups, and will start by sharing a big book. • As children become more confident readers they will all have a copy of the same book, and will be encouraged to read it more independently • We will write comments in a reading diary, to be shared between home and school

Supporting your child at home • Have fun with nursery rhymes and songs especially those with actions • Encourage your child to listen to different sounds. e. g. aeroplanes, animals, the postman • Talk about things as they happen e. g. unpacking the shopping, having a bath

Supporting your child at home • Try and have a special time with your child each day to share books or tell stories – Read in a den, outside, on the stairs, anywhere! • Point out letters and words when you are out and about, e. g letters in your child’s name or recognisable logos • Encourage your child to recognise and write their name, by using a name card

Reading a Bedtime story • http: //www. wordsforlife. org. uk/michaelrosen-tips-reading-bedtime-stories

Writing For children to become writers they need to: • Have a wide variety of experiences to give them ideas • Have experimented with making marks in different substances and materials • Know how to spell words by sounding them out (phonics) and know the tricky words • Have good fine motor control to hold a pencil and form letters correctly.

Supporting your child at home • Share lots of stories – read them or make them up! • Let your child see you writing • Encourage your child to have a go at writing whenever possible, e. g. shopping lists, birthday cards, signs for bedroom door, labels for toys, captions for photos • ‘Building’ their name or other words

Supporting your child at home Help your child to develop strong muscles in his hands and fingers by: • Making marks – e. g. in sand, paint, shaving foam or mud! • Stirring – cake mixture, mud pies • Using a pincer grip – sprinkling glitter, picking up very small objects, manipulating play dough • Cutting – paper, wool, playdough, fabric, card, foam. • Threading – beads, buttons, leaves, pasta pieces

Some useful resources to have at home • • • sparkly/gel pens highlighters chalks ‘office’ stationery, e. g. hole punch, stapler, paper clips post-its variety of paper/card blank forms notebooks old diaries and calendars clipboard old envelopes and stamps pencil case

Any questions?