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.
What do children learn in
Reception and Grade 1?
Children are 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 words.
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 ‘L’.
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:
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.
• Use your ‘ROBOT ARMS’.
Phonic Phases
Help your child at Phase 2
Make flashcards!
I can see a
p –e -g
Sound talking
Magnetic letters
Phase 2 Fun!
Help your child at Phase 3
i
th
sat
chip
wish
train
s
a
ck
n
t
Sound Buttons
Sound “I Spy”
How many phonemes?
ring
night
3
3
car
spoon 4
2
beard
queen
3
3
Phase 3 Fun!
Sucker Stick Sounds
Phoneme
Fishing
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.
Please remember....
• Use the Literacy at Home/Homework book
activities – it will make a huge difference!
• 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 are unsure
– we are all more than happy to help!
Thank you for coming