Transcript How to help at home

Phonics For
Parents
Louise Naidoo
February 2015
Today we are aiming to...
• Explain what phonics is and how we use phonics
to help your children learn to read and spell.
• Share information about how to pronounce the
sounds and write the letters.
• Share ways that you can help your child at home.
What is Phonics?
• Phonics is a way of teaching children to link
sounds and letters.
• It helps them to learn to read and spell
words.
• Phonics is taught in a very structured way –
starting with the easiest sounds.
• It is currently thought to be the most
effective way of teaching children to read
fluently and for enjoyment.
How is Phonics taught at
Chesterhouse?
• Phonics, spelling and vocabulary is a key
component of the Cambridge Primary English
Curriculum Framework right through to Grade 6.
• We follow the Letters and Sounds programme,
which is endorsed by Cambridge.
• Within Letters and Sounds there are Six Phases of
phonic development.
How many sounds are there?
We teach 44 sounds (or phonemes).
It is VERY important
that we pronounce these
sounds
correctly!
Say ‘t’
not ‘tuh’
Say ‘c’
not ‘cuh’
Say ‘p’
not ‘puh’
Say ‘l’
not ‘luh’.
Say ‘mmm’
not ‘muh’
Say ‘ch’
not ‘chuh’
The 44 phonemes
s/ss
a
t
p
i
n
m
d
g
o
c/
k/ck
e
u
r
h
b
f/ff
l/ll
j
v
w
x
y
z/zz
qu
ch
sh
voiced &
unvoiced
ng
ai
ee
igh
oa
oi
ear
air
ure
er
th
short
oo
long
oo
ar
or
ur
ow
Jolly Phonics Actions
Can you Beat the Timer?
Blending
Recognising the sounds in a written
word, for example:
sh a m p oo
and merging or ‘blending’ them in the
order in which they are written to
pronounce the word ‘shampoo’.
Segmenting
• ‘Chopping Up’ the word to spell it out.
• The opposite of blending.
• Use your ‘Phonics Fingers’ and/or
your ‘ROBOT ARMS’.
How many phonemes?
ring
night
3
3
car
spoon 4
2
beard
queen
3
3
What do children learn in
Grade 2 and Grade 3?
In Early Years and Grade 1
Children have already been taught to:
• Recognise the sounds that each individual letter makes
(e.g. ‘s’ = ssssssss).
• Identify the sounds that combinations of letters make
(e.g. ‘ch’, ‘ee’, ‘igh’).
• Blend these sounds together to say and read words.
• Segment these sounds to spell simple words.
What do children learn in
Grade 2 and Grade 3?
Phase 4
• Children will consolidate their understanding of which
sounds (phonemes) correspond to which letters
(graphemes).
Phase 5
• Children learn that there are different ways of
pronouncing some of the sounds
snowman
clown
and there are different ways of spelling the same sound.
Phase 5
Phoneme Spotter Stories
How many different
graphemes can you
find for the /ai/
phoneme?
www.phonicsplay.co.uk
What do children learn in
Grade 2 and Grade 3?
Phase 6
Reading
• Teach children to develop their skill and
automaticity in reading (should become fluent
readers during this stage).
Spelling
Children should:
• identify the ‘tricky bit’ in a word.
• develop strategies for spelling longer words.
• explore and understand spelling rules, patterns and
guidelines.
High Frequency Words
• Decodable
• Tricky
it in is
the to go
with down
they are my
• Remember, some words that were once tricky will become
decodable in later phases.
• Some words will always be tricky and so need to be learnt in
different ways.
• Phase 6 HFW – words children are likely to encounter.
Help at Home
Beat the ‘Sound
Spider’
n igh t
Spot the ‘Odd One Out’
brayn?
brain?
brane?
Sound “I Spy”
Please remember....
Phonics is a useful learning tool; it is not the
whole picture of what it takes to become a
fluent reader and skilled writer.
Disjunct is an adjective applied
to a melodic line which moves
by leap (intervals of more than a
2nd) as opposed to conjunct
motion (by step). Hauptstimme
is the contrapuntal line of
primary
importance,
in
opposition to Nebenstimme.
The Simple View of Reading
Thank you for coming