Transcript Phonics - Hazeldene Lower School

Communication, Language and Literacy
Knowledge of the alphabetic code
Skills of segmentation and blending
Phoneme – smallest unit of sound
in a word.
Grapheme – a letter or sequence of
letters that represents a phoneme.
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1. f l m n r s sh v th z (continuous phonemes)
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2. e p t ch h (unvoiced)
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3. b d g w qu y j (voiced)
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Video showing pronunciation of sounds
The 44 phonemes
/b/
/d/
/f/
/g/
/h/
/j/
/k/
/l/
/m/
/n/
/ng/
/p/
/r/
/s/
/t/
/v/
/w/
/y/
/z/
/th/
/th/
/ch/
/sh/ /zh/ /a/
/e/
/i/
/o/
/u/
/ae/ /ee/ /ie/
/oe/
/ue/ /oo/ /ar/ /ur/ /au/ /er/ /ow/ /oi/
/air/ /ear/ /ure/
BLENDING
Recognising the letter sounds in a
written word, for example
c-u-p
and merging or ‘blending’ them in
the order in which they are written to
pronounce the word ‘cup
SEGMENTING
‘Chopping Up’ the
word to spell it out
The opposite of
blending
•Sounds/phonemes are represented by letters
•A phoneme can be represented by one or more letters e.g. Sh,
th, ee, etc
•The same phoneme can be represented/ spelled in more than
one way e.g. rain, may, lake
•The same spelling may represent more than one sound e.g.
mean, deaf
Phase 1 Letters and Sounds
•Environmental sounds
•Instrumental sounds
•Body percussion
•Rhythm and Rhyme
•Alliteration
•Voice sounds
•Oral blending and segmenting
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Sounds are introduced in sets/ We use Jolly
Phonics and Sounds Write.
 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
 Sounds Write – a i m s t n o p b c g h d f v e l
r u j w z x y ff ll ss – Extended code ai ee
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With word cards:
s a t p i n m d
make as many CVC & CV words as you can.
rain
witch
bright
laughter
 Letter
progression and graphemes continued
 Set
6: j v w x
 Set 7: y z zz qu
 Set 8: ch sh th ng
 Teach:
ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi
ear air ure er
Tricky Words
Words that are not
phonically decodeable
e.g. was, the, I
Some are ‘tricky’ to start
with but will become
decodeable once we have
learned the harder
phonemes
e.g. out, there,
pig
church
boy
curl
thorn
chick
down
shirt
p
ch
i
ur
g
ch
And now you have the
knowledge…
Play lots of sound and
listening games with your
child.
Read as much as possible
to and with your child.
Encourage and praise – get
them to have a ‘good
guess’.
Ask your child’s teacher if
you want to know more.