Welcome

Phonics workshop for the Foundation Stage

What will we cover?

O A brief overview for phonics O Phonics within the Foundation Stage O Activities – an opportunity to experience how your child learns and ideas for home.

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Phonics

Phonics is the main approach to helping children with unknown words.

Children need to use letter sounds (not letter names) to decode words.

Phonics = + and segmenting Knowledge of the Alphabetical code of Phonics The smallest unit of sound is called a phoneme. There are 44 phonemes in spoken English.

Phoneme - The smallest unit of sound. There are 44 phonemes in English. Phonemes can be put together to make words.

Grapheme - A way of writing down a phoneme.

Graphemes can be made up from 1 letter e.g.

p, 2 letters e.g. sh, 3 letters e.g. tch or 4 letters e.g ough.

Digraph - A grapheme containing two letters that makes just one sound (phoneme).

Trigraph - A grapheme containing three letters that makes just one sound (phoneme).

Phoneme a c a t Digraph oa b oa t Trigraph igh s igh t

How do we say the sounds?

O http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXU W_v-1s O http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gxxLnf S5Ts

Phonics in Foundation Stage

O O O O The children are taught using LCP Phonics scheme of work that follows the Primary National Strategy Letters and Sounds. Letters and Sounds is broken up into phases 1-6 In the Foundation Stage and KS1 phonics is taught every day for 20 minutes 4 days a week. Children start from phase 2 as phase 1 runs continuously throughout the Foundation Stage.

Phase 2

O O O O O 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 s ss

Phase 3

O O O O O Phase 3 continues in the same way as Phase 2 and introduces new phonemes. By the end of Phase 3 the children will know one way of writing down each of the 44 phonemes. Set 6 - j v w x Set 7 - y z zz qu Consonant digraphs - ch sh th ng Vowel digraphs (and trigraphs) ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er

ur er

n

ur

se flow

er

oo oo

m

oo

n b

oo

k

Phase 4

O The main challenge in this phase is to help children to blend and segment words with adjacent consonants e.g. truck, help. These adjacent consonant phonemes can both be heard when you say the word which makes them different from a digraph where there are two letters that make just one sound.

gu lp st a mp ha nd tha nk

Oral blending

O This involves hearing phonemes and being able to merge them together to make a word. h - a - t hat d – u –ck duck

Activity: Oral blending On the yellow sheet in your pack there are a list of words, in the first column shows the phonemes within the word, sound talk them and then say the word.

Blending to read

O This involves looking at a written word, looking at each grapheme and to work out which phoneme each grapheme represents and then merging these phonemes together to make a word. This is the basis of reading. dog tree

Sound buttons

O Sounds buttons are used under each grapheme to help the identify sounds.

p a t t r ai n

Activity: blending to read recognising graphemes in words (single letter phonemes and digraphs)

2 Activity: blending to read green sheet 1 st nd table – real words to try and blend – nonsense/alien words

Oral Segmenting

O This is the act hearing a whole word and then splitting it up into the phonemes that make it. Children need to develop this skill before they will be able to segment words to spell them.

Activity: how many phonemes (sounds) are in these words?

Segmenting

O O O This involves hearing a word, splitting it up into the phonemes that make it.

Then writing those graphemes down in the right order Basis of spelling

Activity – segmenting Spelling application: What goes in each part of the phoneme frame?

d o g sh ee p

k i ck n igh t

Tricky words

O However, some words just don’t ‘sound out’.....these are called ‘Tricky Words ’

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How to help your child

Phonics will only work in an environment where Speaking and Listening Skills are promoted and developed. Children should also be regularly exposed to a wide range of quality texts. They should be regularly read aloud to.

Read regularly every opportunity not just your child’s books Nonsense/alien words – make your own words up using 44 phoemes Activities and games Reading record – list of phonemes and phase children are working on in school.

Websites

Thank you

• • 6pm Mrs Pimperton overview of phonics throughout KS1 6:20pm Mrs Wilsher Year 1 Screening test • Resources and Questions