Phonics Letters and Sounds

Workshop

Importance of FMS

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Introducing Letters and Sounds

•  Phonics is the key to children’s success in reading and writing

•  Automatic reading of all words – decodable and tricky - is the ultimate goal.

Letters and Sounds - some key messages

•  A Six Phase Programme •  Making a good start – Phase One •  Systematic high quality phonics –

Phase 2 and beyond •  Multi-sensory learning •  Use as a core scheme but can

supplement with other e.g Jolly Phonics

The role of Phase 1

•  Laying the Foundations – we must get this stage right!

•  Importance of developing speaking and listening skills

•  Relies on and complements a broad and rich language curriculum

•  Promotes the range and depth of children’s language experience

•  Introduces oral blending and segmenting (very important!)

•  Paves the way for systematic phonic teaching to begin

Phase 1

•  Seven Aspects •  Three Strands in each •  Modelling Speaking and Listening •  Introduces oral blending and

segmenting in Aspect 7 •  Adult-led activities

Phase 2

•  Start of systematic phonics teaching •  Introduces 19 grapheme-phoneme

correspondences (letter sounds) •  Decoding and segmenting(Breaking

down words and sounding out) are taught as reversible processes

•  As soon as children have a small number of grapheme/phoneme correspondences, blending and segmenting can start (/s/a/t/p/i/n/)

•  Introduces‘Tricky’ words

Typical duration: Up to 6 weeks

Phase 2

•  Each sound has an action which helps children remember the letter(s)

•  As a child becomes more confident, the actions are no longer necessary

•  Children learn each letter by its sound not its name

•  – Say a as in ant not ai as in aim •  The letters are not introduced in

alphabetical order, rather they are chosen because the children can make two and three letter words from very early in the programme

Phase 2 •  Blending

•  This is the process of saying individual sounds in a word and then running them together to make the word

d –o- g and making dog •  It is a technique every child will need to

learn, and it improves with practice! •  Some children take longer than others

to hear this. •  Some sounds (digraphs) are

represented by two letters, such as sh, ai, ee

•  So rain would be sounded out as r-ai-n

Talking Partners

•  Can you tell your partner how many sounds are in these names?

•  Biff •  Chip •  Kipper •  Floppy

Segmenting

•  This is the process of breaking words up orally into their constituent phonemes so that they can use their knowledge of letter-sounds to spell words.

e.g. jam j-a-m sock s-o-ck

Phoneme Frame

•  Can you put these words in your phoneme frame?

•  Fish •  Train •  Church •  Fright

Phase 2

•  Tricky words

•  Some words in English have an irregular spelling and cannot be read by blending, such as said, was, the one

•  Unfortunately many of these are common words

•  They have to be remembered and we call them ‘tricky words’

Phase 3

•  The majority of F2 children be secure at Phase 3 at the end of the year

•  Introduces another 25 sounds •  Most comprising two letters •  Reading and spelling two syllable

words and captions •  Typical duration: Up to 12 weeks

•  Phases 4 , 5 and 6 are delivered in Years 1 and 2

•  All children will do a Phonics Screening Check during June in Year 1. All parents will be informed of their child’s results.

Your child will receive a letter sound mat and letter sound book to support their learning at home. They will also bring home sets of words

to learn.

Homework

•  Sets of words to read will be sent home.

•  These will be assessed periodically throughout the term

•  These will be matched to the level

at which your child is learning.

Tricky Words

Tricky words will be sent out for children to practise reading them at home e.g. I no go to the. If children become secure with reading these they can practise then spelling them and using them within a sentence.

•  Things to do at home

•  Share stories •  Listen to your child read •  Look for letters and sounds in

the environment •  Talk about everyday activities

Thank you!