St Catherine’s St Catherine’s Early YearsEarly Years

Phonics Phonics Workshop for Workshop for

Parents.Parents.

St Catherine’s St Catherine’s Early YearsEarly Years

Phonics Phonics Workshop for Workshop for

Parents.Parents.

Aims• To share how phonics is taught at St Catherine’s • To develop parents’ confidence in helping their

children with phonics and reading• To teach the basics of phonics and some useful

phonics terms• To outline the different stages in phonic

development • To show examples of activities and resources we

use to teach phonics• To share websites which parents can use to

support their children• Questions

What is phonics?

Phonics is all about using …

knowledge of the

alphabet

skills for reading

and spelling

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Learning phonics will help your child to become a good reader and writer.

Children learn at different rates.

Every child in EY’s and KS1 learns daily phonics at their level.

In KS2 children continue to learn phonics through spelling patterns and rules.

•Every day the children have 15 - 20 minute sessions of phonics.• Fast paced approach • Lessons encompass a range of games,songs and rhymes•We use the Letters and Sounds planning document to support the teaching of phonics•There are 6 phonics phases which the children work through at their own pace

Daily Phonics

Phase 0ne• Phase one is all about listening.

• Listening and hearing different sounds are really important for writing. You cannot write until you can hear the different sounds in words.

• We know that children are not ready to learn letter sounds until they have worked on their listening skills…..

Phase One AspectsEnvironmental sounds- tuning into the

sounds around us.

• Instrumental sounds- listening to and talking about different sounds.

• Body percussion- hearing and copying rhythms using our bodies!

• Rhythm and rhyme- hearing the rhythm in words and the rhyming sound in words.

• Alliteration- This help children to hear the first sound in words.

• Voice sounds-This is a fun way for children to enjoy listening to different sounds

and

Blending and Segmenting

Blending Children need to be able to hear the separate sounds in a

word and then blend them together to say the whole word .

/b/ /e/ /d/ = bed

/t/ /i/ /n/ = tin

/m/ /u/ /g/ = mug

Segmenting Children need to be able to hear a whole word and say every sound that they hear.

bed = /b/ /e/ /d/

tin= /t/ /i/ /n/

mug= /m/ /u/ /g/

•Make phonics part of your daily life…

•Nursery rhymes, songs, action rhymes.

• Add sound effects to stories.

• Music and movement: rhythm, guess the instrument.

• Talking about sounds: listening walks, loud/soft, high/low, silly noises.

•Speaking & listening: silly sentences such as “Happy Harry hops” to help children hear the initial sound in words. Rhyming their names

•Mrs Skeaping Creeping….can they hear the eeping sound in both the names?

•Sound out words..ask the children to find their c-oa-t or their h-a-t.

How can I help at home?

This is very important!Saying the sounds

• Sounds should be articulated clearly and precisely.

http://www.teachfind.com/national-strategies/letter-and-sounds-%E2%80%93-articulation-phonemes-vowels-and-consonants

Before we move on lets get to grips with some other terms that your children may use.

Your children will learn to use the term:

sound (phoneme)

sounds that can be heard in words e.g. c-a-t

Phonics WordsYour children will also learn to use

the term:

Letter name (grapheme)

This is how a sound is written down

Phoneme frame and sound buttons

c a t

f i sh

. . .

. . _

Tricky WordsHigh Frequency Words or

Sight Words• These are words that can’t be sounded

out because they don’t follow the rules.

The, they, are, you, are all tricky words

CVC words

• These are words that are made up of a consonant, vowel and consonant.

• Cat, hat, bin, hot, sip are all CVC words.

Digraphs and Trigraphs• Digraph (2 letter sounds /oo/

/ch/)• Trigraph (3 letter sounds /igh/)

Here are all the terms again!• Phoneme (sound)• Grapheme (letter formation)• Blending (putting sounds together to

make word)• Segmenting (breaking word into sounds)• Digraph (2 letter sounds /oo/ /ch/)• Trigraph (3 letter sounds /igh/)• CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant)• Sound button • High Frequency Words/ Tricky Words/

Sight words

Phase 2:Learning phonemes to read and

write simple words • Children will learn their first 19 phonemes: Set 1: s a t p Set 2: i n m dSet 3: g o c k Set 4: ck (as in duck) e u rSet 5: h b l f ff (as in puff) ll (as in hill) ss

(as in hiss)• They will use these phonemes to read and

spell simple “consonant-vowel-consonant” (CVC) words:

sat, tap, dig, duck, rug, puff, hill, hiss All these words contain 3 phonemes.

Phoneme frames activity

d e ug o nt ck

Answers

d u ck t e n

d o g

. . . . . _

. . _

Phase 3:

• Children will enter phase 3 once they know the first 19 phonemes and can blend and segment to read and spell CVC words.

• They will learn another 26 phonemes:• j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu• ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur,

ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er• They will use these phonemes (and the ones from

Phase 2) to read and spell words:

chip, shop, thin, ring, pain, feet, night,

boat, boot, look, farm, fork, burn, town, coin, dear, fair, sure

Phoneme Frame Game

ship chick

night

How to play:Say it, Say it, robot sounds (segment) and say the word (blend)Now can you write the sounds you hear in the phoneme frame?

Answers

sh i p ch i ck

n igh t

. . _ _ . _

. _ .

Phase 4:Introducing consonant clusters: reading

and spelling words with four or more phonemes

• Children move into phase 4 when they know all the phonemes from phases 2 and 3 and can use them to read and spell simple words (blending to read and segmenting to spell).

• Phase 4 doesn’t introduce any new phonemes. • It focuses on reading and spelling longer words with the

phonemes they already know.• These words have consonant clusters at the

beginning: spot, trip, clap, green, clown…or at the end: tent, mend, damp, burnt …or at the beginning and end! trust, spend, twist

Is there anything I can do at home?

y e s

How can I help at home?Have plenty of pens, pencils and paper at home that the

children can use anytime.

Help them learn their letter sounds as often as possible.

If they are bringing a book home please try to read with them everyday.

Show children how important reading and writing is…write a shopping list and ask your children to help you hear the sounds in beans, or bread for example.

If you are reading a magazine or a book ask the children to have a look too and find some words or letters they might know.

• Practise the phonemes together – robot talk, I-spy games using sounds (something that begins with ……. ends with ……… middle sound is…………)

• Make phonics part of everyday life. For example, ask your child to find 5 things that start with the letter sound 't' on the way home.

Just before we go….

• Phonics is not always the best way to learn for some children…..but we are very good at picking this up and we have other ways to get your child to read and write.

Websites • www.phonicsplay.co.uk• http://www.northwood.org.uk/phonics.h

tm• www.ictgames.com/literacy.html• www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictur

es/phonics/• Letters and Sounds resources and

games.

Don’t forget…

Make It

FunQUESTIONS????