Transcript How to help at home

Phonics in school
and how to help at
home
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• PHONICS AT SCHOOL
Taught daily
Children grouped according to their
needs
We follow the Letters and Sounds
programme.
Split into 6 phases which span from
pre-school to year 2 (and possibly
year 3)
Fast paced progressive programme.
(no longer letter of the week but children
taught up to 4 graphemes in one week)
• PHONICS AT HOME
• Correct pronunciation of phonemes (n-uh)
fun / funuh
• We all need to use the same vocabulary at
home and at school.
• Little and often is the key. Does not have
to be formal. (i.e. sharing a rhyming book
or playing ‘I spy’)
• Link it to your child’s interests.
PHONEME
• The smallest unit of sound in a word.
• There are 44 phonemes that we
teach.
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/
Phase 1 – the foundation
of phonics.
• Before children begin to learn the written version
of phonemes (graphemes) they must be able to
hear the sounds.
• In this phase children practise listening to
sounds, rhyming, alliteration, clapping syllables
and experimenting with voice sounds.
• Children then begin to aurally blend and segment
words. This is a vitally important skill before
moving onto the next phases.
• Children will revisit phase 1 work throughout their
work in following stages.
GRAPHEMES – introduced
from phase 2 onwards
• Letters representing a phoneme
e.g.
c
ai
igh
BLENDING
• Recognising the letter sounds in a written
word, for example
c-u-p
w-i-th
and merging or ‘blending’ them in the order in
which they are written to pronounce the word
‘cup’
We use sound buttons underneath words to help
us to read them. This is something you could
try at home.
SEGMENTING
• ‘Chopping Up’ the word to spell it out
• The opposite of blending
• Use your robot voice and clap the
phonemes.
• Phoneme frames to write in.
b
ear
d
Once children are good with
single phonemes…
• DIGRAPHS – 2 letters that make 1
sound
ll ss zz oa ai
• TRIGRAPHS – 3 letters that make 1
sound
igh ear ure
Unfortunately …
• The English language can have
multiple graphemes for 1
phoneme.
• i.e. c
k
ck
ch(choir)
The aim of phases 1-4 is to give the child one
possible way of writing each of the 44
phonemes. Because of this we will not always
correct a child’s writing if they have made a
phonetically plausible attempt.
TRICKY WORDS
(We calls them naughty words)
• Words that are not phonetically decodable
• e.g. was, the, I
• Some are ‘tricky’ to start with but will
become decodable once we have learned
the harder phonemes
• e.g. out, there,
To support your child’s
phonetic development….
• Play lots of sound and listening games with your
child. (i.e. I spy a c-a-t)
• Sing songs and rhymes
• 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.
All these things will help to build up
connections in the brain, an enjoyment of
language and confidence to try things out.
www.sparklebox.co.uk/cll/lettersandsounds/
This is great for some activities that you can do at home.
Useful websites
• www.parentsintouch.co.uk
• www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents
• www.jollylearning.co.uk/
• www.focusonphonics.co.uk/
• www.syntheticphonics.com