Lady Margaret Primary School

Reception Phonics

Aim:

• To explain our approach to teaching phonics and early reading, enabling you as a parent/carer to support your child more easily and more effectively at home.

Phonics at Lady Margaret

• Phonics at Lady Margaret is taught through a programme called Letters and Sounds.

Letters & Sounds

https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationdetail/page1/DFES-00281-2007

Letters and Sounds Phase 1

Phase 1 - Nursery

• This paves the way for systematic learning of phonics.

• Involves activities that help children to listen attentively to sounds around them, such as the sounds of their toys and to sounds in spoken language.

• Children are taught a wide range of nursery rhymes and songs.

Phase 2 - Reception

• Learn grapheme phoneme correspondences (the sounds letters makes):– s a t p– i n m d– g o c k– ck e u r– h b f,ff l,ll ss

• Blending and reading VC and CVC words (V= vowel, C= consonant)

• Segmenting and spelling VC and CVC words• Reading 2 syllable words e.g. zigziag, sandpit• Reading and writing captions e.g. a cat in a hat• Reading high frequency tricky words: the, to, go, no, I• Spelling high frequency tricky words: to, the

What is a phoneme?

It’s a unit of sound in a word.

How many sounds in cat?

c a t

What is a grapheme?

A grapheme is the symbol (letter or letters) that represent a sound (phoneme).

b

What is a vowel?

A letter representing a speech sound.

a e i o u

What is a consonant?

A speech sound that is not a vowel.

p b t d c g f v s z m n h l r w x j

What is VC, CVC?

• C and V are abbreviations for ‘consonant’ and ‘vowel’.

• VC words are words consisting of a vowel then a consonant e.g. am, at, it.

• CVC words are words consisting of a consonantthen a vowel then a consonant e.g. cat, rug, sun.

• Words such as tick and bell also count as CVCwords – as they have only three sounds e.g. in bell, b = consonant, e = vowel, ll = consonant.

What is blending?

c-a-t = cat. The separate sounds (phonemes) are spoken aloud, in order, and are then merged together into the whole word.

The merging together is called blending and is a vital skill for reading.

What is segmenting?

cat = c-a-tThe whole word is spoken aloud and then broken up into its sounds (phonemes) in order.

This is called segmenting and is a vital skill for spelling.

Sound-talkingAlso know as robot talk/sounding out

Find real objects around your home that have three phonemes (sounds) and practise ‘sound talk’.

e.g.:

• ‘I spy a p-e-g – peg.’

• ‘I spy a c-u-p – cup.’

• ‘Where’s your other s-o-ck – sock?’

• ‘Simon says – put your hands on your h-ea-d.’

• ‘Simon says – touch your ch-i-n.’

• ‘Simon says – pick up your b-a-g.’

Let’s learn the Phase 2 sounds!

Slide down the snake

Round the apple, down the leaf

Down the tower, across the tower

Down the plait, up and over the pirate’s face

Down the insect body, dot for the head

Down Nobby and over his net

Down Maisey and then over the two mountains

Round the dinosaur’s back, up his neck and down to his feet

Round the girl’s face, down her hair and give her a curl

All around the orange

Curl around the caterpillar

Down the kangaroo’s body, tail and leg

Curl around the caterpillar and then down the kangaroo’s body, tail and leg

Slice into the egg, go over the top, then under the egg

Down and under the umbrella, up to the top and down to the puddle

Down the robot’s back, then up and curl

Down the horse’s head to the hooves and over his back

Down the laces, over the toe and touch the heel

Down the stem and draw the leaves

Down the stem and draw the leaves

Down the long leg

Down the long leg

Slide down the snake

Be careful!!!!

No schwa-ing!

‘c’ not, ‘cuh’

Phase 3 - Reception• Learn grapheme phoneme Correspondences (the sound letters makes):

• j v w x

• y z, zz qu

• ch sh th ng

• Learn vowel rap; distinguish between long and short vowel sounds

• Give more precise explanation about using ll, ss, ff, zz, ck – at ends of words after a short vowel and single l, s, f, k after a constant or vowel digraph

• Vowel digraphs: ai ee igh oo oo or ur ear air

• Blending and reading (V= vowel, C= consonant): VC, CV, CVC, VCC, CCV, CCVC, CVCC

• Segmenting and spelling VC, CV and CVC

• Reading and writing captions and sentences

• Reading HF tricky words: he, she, we, me , be, was, my, you, they, her, all, are• Spelling HF tricky words: the, to, go, no, I

• Letter names

What is a Digraph?

A digraph is two letters, which make one sound.

• A consonant digraph contains two consonants

sh ck th ll

• A vowel digraph contains at least one vowel

ai ee ar oy

Let’s learn the Phase 3 sounds

Down his body, curl and dot

Down a wing, up a wing

Down, up, down, up the worm

Cross down the arm and leg and cross the other way

Down a horn, up a horn and under the yak’s head

Zig-zag-zig down the zip

Zig-zag-zig down the zip

Round the queen’s head, up to her crown, down her hair and curl

Curl round the caterpillar, then go down the horse’s head to the hooves and over

his back

Slither down the snake, then down the horse’s head to the hooves and over his

back

Down the tower, across the tower, then down the horse’s head to the hooves and

over his back

Thing on a string

ng

Snail in the rain

ai

What can you see?

ee

Fly high

igh

goat in a boat

oa

Look at a book/Poo at the zoo

oo/oo

Start the car

ar

Shut the door

or

Nurse with a purse

ur

Brown cow

ow

Spoil the boy

oi

Hear with your ear

ear

That’s not fair

air

Sure it’s pure

ure

A better letter

er

A segmenting activity

Shop

Segment these words

• shelf

• dress

• think

• stretch

• flick

WORD PHONEMES

shelf sh e l f

dress d r e ss

think th i n k

stretch s t r e t ch

flick f l i ck

Supporting writing

• Model and teach writing in lower-case letters first.

• Make it fun and messy.

• Make it big and active.

Games!

• Georgie’s gym

• Robot dance

Please ask questions!