SLIDE 1 Aims
- To share information about how phonics
is taught at Cotham Gardens.
- To discuss the basics of phonics and some
useful phonics terms.
- To share ways in which you can support
your child with phonics.
- To talk more broadly about learning to
read.
SLIDE 2 Bo Book ba k bags gs
- Reading record, book, tricky word book.
- Bring book bag to school every day.
- Voluntary contribution to re-invest in books.
- Thank you to PTAF for their on-going support
with our reading programme.
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Phonics cs is a a wa way of teachi hing childr dren n to read d quickly kly and sk d skilfully ly.
Learning phonics will help your child to decode words for reading and spell for writing. Children are taught to recognise the sounds that individual letters make; the sounds that different combinations of letters make; and blending these sounds together from left to right to read whole words.
SLIDE 4 Every child in reception and KS1 receives a daily phonics lesson. We use all the adults in the year groups to teach in small
- groups. Your child will work will work with
a range of adults over the year. Phonics helps children with writing as well as reading. As they move through KS1 and into year 3 the focus shifts onto spelling and grammar.
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- Fast paced.
- Lots of games, songs and rhymes.
- We follow the ‘Letters and Sounds’ planning
document but also use some resources and strategies from the ‘Read Write Inc’ programme.
- There are 6 phonics phases which the children
work through at their own pace.
- We group the children so that they are
working with children at a similar stage.
Th The da daily ph phonics s lesson
SLIDE 6 Phonic terms your child will learn at school
Pho honeme me A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a
- word. It is generally accepted that most varieties
- f spoken English use about 44 phonemes.
Graphemes es A grapheme is a symbol of a phoneme. It is a letter or group of letters representing a sound. We don’t use this term with the children at Colston’s.
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Phonic terms your child will learn at school
Seg egme menti nting ng an and ble lendin ing Segmenting consists of breaking words down into phonemes to spell. Blending consists of building words from phonemes to read. Both skills are important.
SLIDE 8 Phonic terms your child will learn at school
Digrap raph This is when two letters come together to make a phoneme. For example, /oa/ makes the sound in ‘boat’ and is also known as a vow
l digraph. aph. There are also co cons nson
nt d digra raphs phs, for example, /sh/ and /ch/.
Trigra graph ph This is when three letters come together to make one phoneme, for example /igh/. Split it digrap aph A digraph in which the two letters are not adjacent – e.g. make e
SLIDE 9 Phase 1: Getting ready for phonics
ning into to so sounds ds
stening ning and rememb mbering ring so sounds ds
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t so sounds ds Music and movement Rhythm and rhyme Sound effects Speaking and listening skills
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Phase 2: Learning phonemes to read and write simple words
s a t p i n m d g o c k ck (as in duck) e u r h b l f ff (as in puff) ll (as in hill) ss (as in hiss) Th They ey wi will ll use e thes ese e phoneme emes s to rea ead an and spel ell l simple “consonant-vowel vowel-consonant” (CVC) wo words: : sat, tap, duck, rug, puff, hill, hiss All ll thes ese e wo words ds co contain ain 3 p 3 phonem emes es.
SLIDE 11 Phase 3: Learning the long vowel phonemes
- j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu
- ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air,
ure, er
- They will use these phonemes (and the ones from
Phase 2) to read and spell words such as:
chip, shop, thin, ring, pain, feet, night, boat, boot, look, farm, fork, town, coin, dear, fair, sure
SLIDE 12 Phase 4: Introducing consonant clusters: reading and spelling words with four or more phonemes
- No new phonemes.
- Focus on reading and spelling longer words with the
phonemes they already know.
sonant ant clu lusters sters at the beginning: sp spot, t, trip ip, , cla lap, , gree een, n, clo lown, wn, st street eet …or at the end: ten ent, t, men end, d, da damp, , bu burnt …or at the beginning and end! trust, ust, sp spen end, d, twi wist st
SLIDE 13 Phase 5
new phon
mes
ie, ea, oy
ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe
a-e, , e-e, i-e, , o-e, u-e Learn n alter erna native tive pron
nciatio tions ns of
graphem hemes es (the e same writt tten en graphem heme e ca can r n represen esent mor
n one ph phon
e/sou
nd): ): Fin/ n/find nd, , h hot/cold, d, cat/cent nt, got
iant, , b but/put, t, cow
, tie ie/f /fie ield ld, , ea eat/br brea ead, d, f farmer er/h /her er, , hat/wh what, , yes/by/ver /very, ch chin/ n/sch choo
l/ch chef, ef, ou
lder/ er/cou
ld/y /you
.
SLIDE 14 Phase 6
- Phase 6 focuses on spellings and learning rules
for spelling alternatives.
- Children learn about past tense; rules for
adding suffixes and prefixes; irregular verbs
- ‘tion’ and ‘sion’ words
- They will also begin to focus much more on
spelling strategies.
SLIDE 15 Saying the sounds
- Try not to use letter names.
- Pronounce the sounds clearly and precisely.
- Some sounds are ‘stretchy’ and some sounds
are ‘bouncy’. Eg say ‘mmmmm’ not ‘muh’ Link to sound pronunication guide.
SLIDE 16 Tricky Words
There are many words that cannot be
blended or segmented because they are irregular.
the wa was sa said id you some me
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Tricky word book
Children need to be able to: read all the tricky words by sight and nd learn to spell them accurately too.
SLIDE 18 tie ie time toe
tone cue ue cube pie pine
Split digraphs
SLIDE 19 Year 1 phonics screening test
- All year 1 children have to take the test in June.
- 1:1 test – the actual test is not at all terrifying,
in fact the children enjoy the challenge.
- Combination of real and nonsense words.
- The pass mark is usually 32/40.
- Children that don’t pass have to
retake in year 2.
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Year 1 Phonics Test
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Is there anything I can do at home?
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SLIDE 22 How can I help at home?
- Look out for your child’s
perso rsonalised nalised pho honeme eme targets rgets.
These wi will be be upd pdated ed at least twi wice pe per term.
se supp pport your child d to re recogn gnise se these e sounds ds by sigh ght, , and d also to sp spot them wi within wo words ds.
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How can I help at home?
SLIDE 24 How can I help at home?
d wi with your child d at least three times a we week k and pr d preferably ably every da day.
We wi will check k the book k bags gs every da day and ch d change ge the book k if there is a a comment in th the readi ding record. d.
Come and re d read d in sc school!
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How can I help at home?
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How can I help at home?
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Please remember…
Phonics is just a tool to help children learn to read quickly and efficiently. The aim is to equip children with the skills to access books and develop a love of reading.
