Phonics Workshop

1st December 2014

Today we are going to learn…

• What is phonics?• How we teach phonics in school• Pronunciation of sounds• The terminology of phonics• Different phases of phonics the children learn

It is going to be active and fun and hope you will join in!

The classrooms have been set up to see how we teach phonics at different phases.

What is Phonics?

Phonics is…

Knowledge of the alphabetic code

Skills of segmentation and blending

Blending

• Recognising the letter/sounds in a written word and merging the individual

phonemes together to pronounce a word.

To read unfamiliar words a child must recognise (sound out) each grapheme, not

each letter, then merge the phonemes together to make a word.

Blending

sh o pshop

Segmenting

• Identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word and writing down letters for each sound to form

the word .

Segmenting

cupc u p

Have you heard of these ?

phoneme

grapheme

segmenting

blendingSplit digraph

trigraph

digraph

Phoneme

A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word.

catc a t

Phoneme

A phoneme can be represented by one or more

letters

eesh igh

Pronouncing Phonemes1. f l m n r s sh v th z

2. e p t ch h

3. b d g w qu y j

Video of pronunciation of sounds

Can you pronounce these sounds?

fm

p

ch g

Can you use the phoneme frame to work out how many phonemes there are in these words?

pig p i gchurch ch ur chboycurlthornchickdownshirt

GraphemeA grapheme is a letter or

sequence of letters that represents a

phoneme(written sounds)

f

sh igh

Some definitions:Digraph:

Two letters, which make one sound.

A consonant digraph contains 2 consonants:sh ck th ll

A vowel digraph contains at least one vowel:ai ee ar oy

How we teach phonics in school

• Letters and Sounds Phonics Programme

• Taught from Early Years – Year 2• 20 minutes daily• Phases 1 to 6• Children are grouped by phase in

their year group.

What does a Phonics lesson look like?

Revisit/review

Flashcards to practise phonemes learnt so far.

Teach Teach new phoneme

Practise Writing and reading words with that taught phoneme

Apply Read sentences with key words and new phonemes

Phase 1This phase concentrates on developing children’sspeaking and listening skills. We get children attuned to the sounds around them.

• Environmental Alliteration

• Instrumental sounds Voice Sounds

• Body Percussion Rhythm and rhyme

• Oral segmenting/blending

Workshop – JellyFish Class – Early Years

• This phase begins in Early Years• Phonics sessions are fun sessions involving lots

of speaking, listening and games• The children will have a small number of

grapheme/phoneme correspondences, blending and segmenting can start (/s/a/t/p/i/n/)

• ‘Your child will also learn several tricky words; those that cannot be sounded out

• Eg: the, to, I, go, noWorkshop – Starfish Class – Early Years

Phase 2

Phase 2

Up to 6 weeks

Activity: How many words can you make?

• With word cards:

s a t p i n m d

Make as many CVC & CV words as you can.

• The main individual letter phonemes have now been learnt, and children are reading CVC words independently – dog , chip

• CVC words follow the pattern consonant, vowel, consonant, eg: cat, dog, pet.

• Words such as tick or bell also count as CVC words; although they contain four letters, they only have three sounds

• 12 weeks Workshop – Octopus Class – Year 1

Phase 3

• Phase 3 teaches children to learn the graphemes (written sounds), made up of more than one letter, eg: ‘oa’ as in boat ‘ai’ as in train

• Your child will also learn all the letter names in the alphabet and how to form them correctly

• Read more tricky words and begin to spell some of them

• Read and write words in phrases and sentences

Phase 3

Phase Three

ch sh th ngai ee igh oaoo ar or urow oi ear airure er ir

Set 6 j v w xSet 7 y z, zz qu

12 weeks

Phase 4• This phase consolidates all the children have

learnt in the previous phases. • They will blend phonemes to read CVC words

and segment words for spelling. • They will also be able to read two syllable words

that are simple.

Workshop – Turtle Class Year 1

• Phase 5 lasts 30 weeks • Throughout Year 1 and into Year 2• Children will be taught new graphemes e.g oy ,

aw, ir and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes.

• The same phoneme can be represented in more than one way, for example: rain, may, lake

• The same grapheme can represent more than one phoneme, for example: meat, deaf, great.

Workshop – Seahorse Class Year 2

Phase 5

Phase 6• The focus is on learning spelling rules for word

endings (these are known as suffixes) The children learn how words change when you add certain letters. There are 12 different suffixes taught:

-s -es -ing -ed-er -est -y -en-ful -ly -ment -ness

Workshop – Whales Class – Year 2

phoneme

grapheme

segmenting

blendingSplit digraph

trigraph

digraph

Year 1 Phonics Test

Resources

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk

Phonics leaflet