Phonics WorkshopOur Approach to Reading at

Priory Rise

OverviewSounds-Write programmeSight recognition – for some words which

cannot be written phonetically e.g. the, are, was

Exposure to a wide range of texts – understanding of story and how different texts work – guided reading, literacy lessons

Developing a love of literature and reading

Key Principles of Phonics ApproachAll sounds are represented by symbols that we call lettersSome sounds are represented by one letter e.g. <j>, <n>,

<w>, some by two letters such as <ck>, <ch> <ay>, some by three letters such as <ere>, <air>

Sounds may be represented (spelled) in more that one way e.g ‘ae’ as in ‘Rachel’, ‘playing’, ‘they’ and ‘ie’ and as in ‘I’ and ‘buy’

Teaching whole words, not teaching sounds in isolation –teaching the children using complete words gives them meaning and a context in which to place their learning. Asking children to learn the sound ‘c’ in isolation is meaningless to them

Children are taught to read and write the words at the same time

Key SkillsSegmenting – The children learn to segment

the individual sounds to write and spell words eg ‘sat’ is split into it’s three sounds ‘s’.... ‘a’.... ‘t’

Blending – The children learn to blend individual sounds to read words eg. ‘v’ ‘e’ ‘t’ is blended into the word ‘vet’

Phoneme manipulation – The children manipulate the individual sounds within words so one sound can be replaced by another e.g. mat – sat – sit – it - am

ProgressionInitial code – the children are taught the skills to

segment, blend and manipulate sounds in wordsExtended code – the children learn that sounds can

be spelled in more than one way e.g. the sound ‘ae’ can be spelled <a>, <ai>, <ea>, <a-e>, <eigh>, etc

Polysyllabic words (2 - 6 syllable words) – the children learn to blend and segment polysyllabic words

Suffixes, prefixes – The children learn to spell words containing the suffix eg. mixture <-ture> and the prefix e.g. antibiotic <anti>

ResourcesWhiteboards and

pensMagnetic letters and

boardsPhonic reading

schemePost itsFlip flapsPhonic bones

Using the InternetEspresso has lots of games that you can access at home

Phoneme flop is a fun game http://www.ictgames.com/phonemeFlop_v4.html

A Typical LessonWord-buildingSymbol SearchSound SwapReading and

Spelling Words

Word Building Lesson