Meadgate Primary School

Thursday 22nd October 2015

PHONICS TALK

AIMS OF TODAY

• Teach some useful phonics terms

• Outline the different stages of phonics

• Share how phonics is taught at Meadgate Primary School

• Show examples of activities and resources we use to teach phonics

• Give you an opportunity to ask questions

• Develop your confidence in helping your children with phonics and reading

PHONICS IS ALL ABOUT USING…

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

skills for reading and

spelling

knowledge of the alphabet

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TERMINOLOGY

• Phonemes: The smallest units of sound that are found within a word (the sounds you can

hear)

• Grapheme: The spelling of the sound (the letters you can see)

• Digraph: Two letters that make one sound when read - ee

• Trigraphs: Three letters that make one sound - igh

• CVC: Stands for consonant, vowel, consonant – dog, lock

• Segmenting:Breaking up a word into its sounds

• Blending: Putting the sounds together to read a word

• Tricky words: Words that cannot easily be decoded - go

PHASE 1GETTING READY FOR PHONICS

• This phase involves:

• Tuning into sounds

• Listening &

remembering

sounds

• Talking about

sounds.

• Within 7 aspects:

• 1 – Environmental

• 2 – Instrumental sounds

• 3 – Body Percussion

• 4 – Rhythm and rhyme

• 5 – Alliteration

• 6 – Voice sounds

• 7 – Oral blending and

segmenting.

PHASE 2THE FIRST 19 PHONEMES

• Set 1: s, a, t, p

• Set 2: i, n, m, d

• Set 3: g, o, c, k

• Set 4: ck, e, u, r

• Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

PHASE 3A FURTHER 25 PHONEMES

• Set 6: j, v, w, x

• Set 7: y, z, zz, qu

• Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng

• Vowel digraphs & trigraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er

PHASE 4CONSOLIDATION

• This phase consolidates what the children have learnt in the previous phases.

• Introduces adjacent consonants (e.g. flag)

• Introduces polysyllabic words (e.g. windmill)

PHASE 5ALTERNATIVES

• New graphemes and their alternative pronunciations

• Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au

• Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

LEARNING ALL THE VARIATIONS!

The same phoneme using different graphemes:

burn

first

term

heard

work

The same grapheme representing different phonemes:

meat bread

he bed

bear hear

cow low

PHASE 6SUPPORT FOR SPELLINGS

• Focuses on spellings and learning rules for spelling alternatives:

• Look at syllables, base words, suffixes & prefixes, analogy and mnemonics

• Learn about past tense, rules for adding ‘ing’ and irregular verbs.

A PHONICS LESSON

Revisit/Review

Practise phonemes, high frequency and tricky words learnt previously http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/BuriedTreasure2.html

Teach Teach new phoneme, grapheme, strategy or word

Practice Play game or experiment with new information

Apply Read/write sentence containing new information

20 minute daily session

SEGMENTING

• Breaking down words for spelling

• Hear a whole word & say every sound within

catc a t

SEGMENTING

queenqu ee n

BLENDING

• Building words from phonemes to read

• Hear separate sounds in a word, blend them together & say whole word.

c a tcat

BLENDING

qu ee nqueen

YEAR 1 PHONICS TEST

HOW TO HELP AT HOME

• Play I Spy using letter names and sounds

• Play games online

• Robot game – sound talk words like a robot, e.g. b-u-s instead of bus

• Read and write silly sentences & fake words

• Physical activities – water pistol, chalk, ball, fly swat

• Ask “Do you think it looks right?” and encourage them to explore alternative spellings

HOW TO HELP AT HOME - READING

• Little & often everyday

• Point to each letter & say individual sounds aloud

• Read words by blending (pushing) sounds together

• Use terms – letters & words (and/or phonics terms if feeling brave!)

• Ask “Does that sound right?” and “Does it sound like a word you know?”

• Encourage use of pictures or reading around words to check guesses make sense

• Encourage reading of ‘tricky words’ by sight (not sounded out)

• Ask questions to check understanding

• Be positive and comment on effort and use of strategies.

USEFUL WEBSITES• Oxford Owl -

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/expert-help/phonics-made-easy

Includes recordings of how individual sounds are pronounced and how sounds are blended.

 

• Cbeebies – Alphablocks Guide to Phonics -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics

A parents’ guide on how phonics works, including guidance videos on how to help your child read  

• Jolly Phonics - http://jollylearning.co.uk/2010/10/29/hear-the-letter-sounds

Shows the order in which the sounds are taught. It includes recordings of the individual sounds, alongside actions and letter formation rhymes.

• Mr Thorne - http://mrthorne.com/

Videos to support the teaching of phonics.

• Phonics Play - http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/index.htm

Fun and interactive games to help children practise using phonics knowledge and skills.

ANY QUESTIONS?