Transcript Developing Children’s Mathematical skills 0 –5 years

Dunkirk Primary School
Helping your child learn to
read
What is Phonics?
The relationships between letters
(graphemes) and sounds (phonemes)
phonics is
skills of
segmentation
and blending
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Knowing about
letters
and sounds
Words your child will use
phoneme
The sounds that make up a word.
Words your child will use
grapheme
Letter(s) written to show the sounds in a
word.
t
ai
igh
Phonemes and Graphemes
• A grapheme may consist of one (t), two
(kn) or more letters (igh)
• A phoneme can be represented/spelled
in more than one way cat, kennel, choir
• The same grapheme may represent more
than one phoneme me, met
Pure Sounds
DVD
Some Definitions
segmenting
Identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word
h-i-m
s-t-or-k
and writing down or manipulating letters for each sound
(phoneme) to form
him
stork
Some Definitions
blending
Recognising the letter-sounds in a written word, for
example
c-u-p, sh-ee-p
and merging or synthesising them in the order in which
they are written to pronounce the word
cup, sheep.
Some Definitions
split digraph
A digraph in which the two letters are not
adjacent.
make
rose
chute
Sound Buttons
rain
bright
witch
daughter
Sound Buttons
rain
bright
witch
daughter
Games to do at home
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Sound buttons
Silly voices
Flash cards
Chew it up/pull it out
Hunt the sound in the book
Have a look at the school website
Reading is all around
Glossary
• Phoneme-each sound in a word
• Grapheme-letters to show each sound
• Blending-joining each sound together to make a
word
• Segmenting-breaking up a word into each
sounds
• Split digraph-a long sound that is split by
another letter
• Tricky words-words that don’t follow sound rules
Reading in school
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Phonics learning sessions
Guided reading
Modelled reading
Class books to share
Independent reading
Book club
Book assemblies
Reading records