Phonics Presentation

Tuesday 17th March2015

Why Teach Phonics ?

• The Importance of Phonics • Synthetic phonics, • Sounds beyond abc • CVC, CVCC, CCVC• Teaching Phonics• Games• How you can help at home?

Synthetic Phonics

• teaches letter/s-sound correspondences at a quick pace• immediately teaches how to blend the sounds for reading

• c-a-t is cat, b-u-s is bus, s-t-o-p is stop • teaches phonemic awareness• teaches main digraphs (letter combinations) – for blending and

segmenting• teaches irregular keywords (tricky words) – blending them but noting the

regular and irregular/unusual parts • uses decodable texts initially – free choice of books when there is fluency • blending is the first and main strategy for reading unknown words

Early Phonics

Phonics is

Skills of blending and

segmentation +

The Alphabet

Beyond abc

• 26 letters make 44 sounds• 2 letter – th, ng• 3 letter – ion, igh• 4 letter – ough

• The same spelling may represent more than one The same spelling may represent more than one sound – sound – livelive and and livelive

• One sound can have several graphemesOne sound can have several graphemes• play, paid, same – ay, ai, a_e

• Exclusions to rules - bread

CVC, CCVC, CVCC

• CVC• cat, this, book, tape,

teeth • CVCC

• best, help, rocks• CCVC

• brush, crook, speak

CVC Word?

pig song car

sheep day for

boy whizz miss

fill keep huff

CVC Word

pig song car X

sheep day X for X

boy X whizz miss

fill keep huff

Teaching

• Identify sounds in spoken words• Recognise common spellings for each

phoneme• Blend phonemes into words for reading• Segment words into phonemes for spelling• Develop Sight Recognition words

Phonics Screening Check

•Screening check will confirm whether children have learnt the skill of phonic decoding to an appropriate level

•It is not a reading test

•It does not replace assessments already in place

Phonics Screening Check

•Each child will work one to one with an adult to complete the check

•The check will take between 4-9 minutes per pupil

•40 words

•20 real words and 20 pseudo words

Phonics Screening Check

•Mark out of 40

•Results included in end of year report

•Some children tested again at the end of Year 2

How you can help your child at home?

• Sound buttons

dog sheep

How you can help your child at home?

• Sound buttons

dog sheep • Rhyming games• Web link to Mr.Thorne’s Phonics. http://www.mrthorne.com/

will help you with how to annunciate the different phonemes.

• Matching letters – capital to lower, HFW (High Frequency Words), snap, pairs and bingo.

How you can help your child at home?

• www.phonicsplay.co.uk play games where you can practise segmenting real & non-sense words from all phases.

• Chop words up into their phonemes e.g. ch-o-p• Play full circle – change one letter each time ship –

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