Parent Early Phonics Workshop

Building the foundations for future readers and writers

Foundation Stage

Phonics

Emergent writing

Speaking and Listening

Developing a love of literacy

Year 1

Talk for Writing

Imitate and Innovate

Understanding what a sentence is

Year 2

Innovate and Invent

Develop range of writing genres

Beginning to develop range of spelling patterns

Year 3

Knowing there is a difference between spoken and written language

Consistently writing sentences that make sense with a capital letter and full stop

Beginning to use a range of connectives to add detail and description to sentences

Writing for a range of purposes

Year 4

Improving fluency of writing

Varying sentence types using a range of connectives

Selecting language for effect

Organise writing into clear sections or paragraphs

Year 5

Making deliberate choices to engage the reader ...

range of connectives, vary sentence starters, range of punctuation, embedded clauses

(Suddenly the boat, which was bright red, crashed into the harbour wall)

Edit and improve writing

Year 6

Sophisticated writing!

Consistently complex and deliberately planned sentences,

text structure and vocabulary choices

Where does it all start...?

Letters and SoundsSynthetic Phonics

CurriculumPhases 1-6

Phase 1Aspect 1: Environmental sounds

Aspect 2: Instrumental sounds

Aspect 3: Body percussion

Aspect 4: Rhythm and rhyme

Aspect 5: Alliteration

Aspect 6: Voice Sounds

Phase 2

Website with videos for Phase 2.

Phase 2 continued...

spell

read

Phase 3

Phase 3 continued...

Example

Phases 4, 5 and 6Find out more...

Reading in school....

• Individual reading• Guided reading• Phonics sessions• Shared reading• Reading across the curriculum

Reading at home...

• Sharing stories• Reading your reading book• Reading other books

How we organise phonic teaching

• Phase 1• Phases 2-6• In nursery• In reception• In Years 1-6

What can you do to help?

• Play phonic games with your children (see leaflet)

• Let us know sounds or skills your child finds tricky

• http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ParentsMenu.htm• http://jollylearning.co.uk/gallery/• http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/home/reading-owl/reading• http://www.wordsforlife.org.uk/ • http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/• http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/alphablocks/ • http://www.bugclub.co.uk/ - coming soon!

Glossary• Phonics glossary• blend (vb) — to draw individual sounds together to pronounce a word, e.g. s-n-a-p, blended together,

reads snap• cluster — two (or three) letters making two (or three) sounds, e.g. the first three letters of 'straight' are

a consonant cluster• digraph — two letters making one sound, e.g. sh, ch, th, ph.• vowel digraphs comprise of two vowels which, together, make one sound, e.g. ai, oo, ow• split digraph — two letters, split, making one sound, e.g. a-e as in make or i-e in site• grapheme — a letter or a group of letters representing one sound, e.g. sh, ch, igh, ough (as in 'though')• grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPC) — the relationship between sounds and the letters which

represent those sounds; also known as 'letter-sound correspondences'• mnemonic — a device for memorising and recalling something, such as a snake shaped like the letter 'S'• phoneme — the smallest single identifiable sound, e.g. the letters 'sh' represent just one sound, but 'sp'

represents two (/s/ and /p/)• segment (vb) — to split up a word into its individual phonemes in order to spell it, e.g. the word 'cat'

has three phonemes: /c/, /a/, /t/• VC, CVC, CCVC — the abbreviations for vowel-consonant, consonant-vowel-consonant, consonant-

consonant-vowel-consonant, which are used to describe the order of letters in words, e.g. am, ham, slam.