Welcome to

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Welcome to

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Our aims

• Explain how phonics is taught in Foundation and
  KS1.
• Demonstrate the way of saying letter sounds.
• Provide you with some ideas and activities for
  home.

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5 Basic Skills

• 1. Learning the letter sounds
• 2. Letter formation
• 3. Blending
• 4. Identifying sounds in words
• 5. Tricky words

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Letter Sounds

• Letter sound order
• There are 42 different letter sounds, which are
  divided into 7 groups.
• The order in which the letter sounds are taught
  go from the simplest to the more complex letter
  sounds.
• The first group of letters were chosen because
  you can make more simple, three-letter words than
  with any other combination of 6 letters.
• This enables the children to start blending and
  reading words from the first week. This is hugely
  motivating for them.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?veCjJYB07aSU

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Digraphs
(two letters that make one sound)
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Digraphs
(two letters making one sound)
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Practice Time!!! Look through your handouts and
try to make the sound represented by each letter
or digraph (2 letters). http//www.oxfordowl.co.uk
/- is a good website for ideas to help children
with reading Please feel free to ask if you
would like us to demonstrate any of the actions
or sounds.
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Try out your new skills to read these
words! Pikoisher p/i/k/oi/sh/er Umarthoon -
u/m/ar/th/oo/n Shaiquex sh/ai/qu/e/x
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If children are unsure when reading a word give
them the sound that they are struggling with and
encourage them to use this to blend. For
example, goat - if children read /g/ /o/ /a/
/t/, remind them that /o/ and /a/ together makes
the /oa/ sound and encourage them to blend these
three sounds together.
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Pencil Hold

• Tripod grip
• Froggy legs
• movement

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Writing (identifying sounds in words) How many
sounds can you hear? What is the first sound?
What is the next sound? etc.
f i sh
. . .
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Oh no they spelt it rong!The most important
thing with children's early writing is
understanding that getting the correct sound is
more important than writing it with the correct
letter/s.
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Alternative Vowel Sounds

• Introduced in foundation

Alternatives taught later in year one
(play) (flame)
(rain)
(feet)
(leaf)
(these)
(boat)
(snow) (bone)
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Children are grouped for phonics. Children
work in smaller groups and groups are targeted
towards childrens individual needs.
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Here are a variety of activities you can use and
adapt to support your childs reading and writing
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Sound Book
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Flash Cards

• What sound is this?
• Find me a ....
• Stick around room children go on sound hunt.
• Place sounds together and encourage children to
  read words.
• Ask children to make up word s using flash cards.
• Hunt for objects around home starting with a
  given sound.

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Bingo Cards

• Play bingo with words.
• Let children write own bingo cards and play
  bingo.
• Duplicate, cut words out and play snap.
• Matching pairs game.
• Turn words over and read.

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Race Game

• Encourage children to read words that they land
  on using a dice.
• How many words can they read in a minute?
• Can they read it before you can?
• Can they test your spelling (they read to you)?
• Use with sounds instead of words.

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Words and Pictures

• Children write words for given pictures linked
  to their likes.
• Children read given words and draw appropriate
  picture.
• Snap game match words with pictures.

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Metal Mike

• Robot to support segmenting makes writing more
  fun.
• Also robot makes the mistake not the child so
  children are more willing to make attempts.

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Top Tips1. Little and often is the way forward
with knowing all the sounds. 2. Praise children
for good phonetic spelling attempts.3. Most
importantly reading and writing should be fun and
meaningful!!! ? Christmas lists? Postcards?
Letters? Stories
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Recommended website to visit

• www.jollylearning.co.uk
• ? This website will play the sounds for you.