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Teaching and Learning Phonics at Platt Primary School

Aims

• To share how phonics is taught.
• To develop parents’ confidence in helping their children

with phonics and reading.

• To teach the basics of phonics and some useful phonics

terms.

• To outline the different stages in phonic development.
• To show examples of activities and resources we use to

teach phonics.

• To give parents an opportunity to ask questions.

What is phonics and how can I help my child at home?

What Is Synthetic Phonics?

• Synthetic phonics teaches the phonemes

(sounds) associated with the graphemes (letters). The sounds are taught in isolation and then blended together.

Phonics is all about using …

skills for reading and spelling knowledge

• f the

alphabet

+

• Every day the children have 20 minute

sessions of phonics.

• Fast paced approach
• Lessons encompass a range of games,

songs and rhymes

• We use the Letters and Sounds planning

document to support the teaching of phonics and Jolly Phonics actions.

• There are 6 phonics phases.

Daily Phonics

Phonic terms your child will learn at school

• Phonemes: The smallest units of sound that are found

within a word

• Grapheme: The spelling of the sound e.g. th
• Diagraph: Two letters that make one sound when read
• Trigraphs: Three letters that make one sound
• CVC: Stands for consonant, vowel, consonant.
• Segmenting is breaking up a word into its sounds.
• Blending: Putting the sounds together to read a word
• Tricky words: Words that cannot easily be decoded.

Some Definitions

A Phoneme This is the smallest unit of sound in a word.

How many phonemes can you hear in

cat?

A grapheme These are the letters that represent the phoneme.

The grapheme could be 1 letter, 2 letters or more! We

• ften refer to these as sound buttons:

t ai igh

Children need to practise recognising the grapheme and saying the phoneme that it represents.

A phoneme you hear

• A grapheme you see

Letters and Sounds Phase 0ne

Phase One Aspects

• Environmental sounds
• Instrumental sounds
• Body percussion
• Rhythm and rhyme
• Alliteration
• Voice sounds
• Oral blending and segmenting

Phase One was designed to help children to:

• Listen attentively
• Enlarge vocabulary
• Speak confidently
• Discriminate phonemes
• Reproduce audibly the phonemes they hear

Phonics Phase 2 and 3 Reception

Ph Phas ase e 2

• Is the start of systematic phonic work.
• Begins the understanding of gra

raph pheme eme- ph phoneme neme correspondence.

• Understand that words are constructed

from ph phonemes nemes and that phonemes are represented by gr graph phemes emes.

How to say the sounds

• Saying the sounds correctly with your child is

extremely important.

• The way we say sounds may well be different

from when you were at school.

• We say the shortest form of the sounds.

s a t p i n m d g

• c

k ck ck e u r h b f ff ff l

ll ll

ss ss

Ph Phonemes nemes

• A Phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word.

Pronouncing the phonemes correctly is very important. eg the letter s is pronounced sssss and not suh. We all need to use the same language at home and at school.

Next steps …

• Children then begin to bl

blend nd for reading.

• Starting with simple VC (vowel

consonant) words e.g at, it, is

• and then to CVC (consonant vowel

consonant) words. E.g dog, cat, man

BL BLENDING ENDING

• Recognise and say the letter

sounds in a written word, for example: s-a-t by merging or ‘blending’ them in the order in which they are written to pronounce the word ‘sat’.

• How many phonemes in each

word?

Segmenting Activity

shelf lf sh sh e l f

4 p phone nemes mes

dr dres ess

d r e ss ss

4 p phone nemes mes

spr print nt

s p r i n t

6 p phone nemes mes

stri ring ng

s t r i ng ng

5 p phone nemes mes

Ph Phase ase 3

• Completes the teaching of the alphabet and

children move onto sounds represented by more than 1 letter.

• DI

DIGRAPHS PHS – 2 letters that make 1 sound

ll ss zz oa ai

• TR

TRIGRA RAPHS PHS – 3 letters that make 1 sound igh air

Ph Phase ase 3 p 3 phonemes nemes

j v w y z zz zz qu qu ch ch sh sh th th

ng ng

ai ai ee ee igh

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• a
• ar

ar

• r
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ur ur

• w
• w
• i
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ea ear air ure er er

TRI TRICK CKY Y WO WORD RDS

• Words that are not phonically 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.

Phases 4 Phase 5 throughout Year One. Complex code Phase 6 throughout Year Two and beyond. Spelling

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Example…

• I spy.
• Make duplicate sounds and play pairs… matching games.
• Stick sounds on items that start with that letter sound.
• At home, on car journeys, outings ask children to find as many things they can

that start with a sound chosen.

• Let them hear sounds… sound talk to them. “Fetch me your c-oa-t”!
• Read

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• Encourage
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• Ask if you want to know more.
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