Welcome to our Phonics Information Session

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Welcome to our Phonics Information Session
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What is phonics?

• Children are taught to read by breaking
• down words into separate sounds or phonemes.
• They are then taught how to blend these sounds
• together to read the whole word.
• Children are taught to spell by hearing a word
• and splitting it up into the sounds that make
  it.
• This is called segmenting. Children then use
• their phonic knowledge to record the letters
• that represent those sounds in the correct
• order.

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Definitions

• Phoneme The smallest unit of sound. There are
  approximately 44 phonemes in English (it depends
  on different accents). Phonemes can be put
  together to make words.
• Grapheme 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. igh
• Blending- Children blend phonemes together to
  make a word e.g. r-u-n run
• Segmenting Children split the word into sounds
  to help them write it.

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Daily phonics

• Children have a 20 minute phonics lesson each day
  and they are encouraged to use these strategies
  to read and write in other lessons.

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Introduction Objectives and criteria for success
Revisit and Review
Teach
Practise
Apply
Assess learning against criteria
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Phonics Letters and Sounds

• Teaching of phonics is in 6 discreet phases.
• As well as the sounds taught at each phase there
  are also high frequency words.
• Some of these words are decodable and some are
  considered tricky words. Children need to read
  these by sight and learn to spell them.
• Eg. What, she, was

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Phonics Phase 1

• Phonics is broken down into phases, 1 to 6.
• Phase 1, which is taught in Nursery, looks at
  sound discrimination, rhyme, oral blending and
  oral segmenting.

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Jolly Phonics

• Kinaesthetic approach song, action and visual
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?veCjJYB07aSU

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Articulation of phonemes
Teaching phonics requires a technical skill in
enunciation.
Each phoneme needs to be articulated clearly and
precisely. Each sound needs to be said sharply
and clipped D not DER M not MER for
accuracy in blending.
https//www.youtube.com/watch?vMOW3pB2KwGA
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Phonics Phase 2

• Phase 2 introduces the first set of phonemes and
  teaches children to blend the sounds together to
  read whole words.

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Phonics Phase 3

• Phase 3 teaches another 25 phonemes, most of
  which are digraphs (two letters making one sound
  e.g. oi) and some our trigraphs (three letters
  make one sound e.g. igh).

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Phonics Phase 4

• Phase 4 teaches children to read and spell
• words with adjacent consonants e.g. jump or
• stamp and polysyllabic words
• (more than one syllable e.g. sandwich)

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Phonics Phase 5

• Phase 5 teaches children alternative ways of
• representing sounds they already know e.g.
• in Phase 3 they learnt ow (cow) and in
• Phase 5 they will learn ou (loud).

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Phonics Phase 6

• Phase 6 focuses on becoming fluent
• readers and accurate spellers by teaching
• rules for suffixes such as -ing, -ed, -est.

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Phase 6

• Throughout this phase consolidation of previous
  phases
• Develop strategies for learning spellings
• Focus on comprehension and reading for pleasure
• Transition from learning to read to reading to
  learn

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The rules for adding suffixes
Suffix Rules
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A word ending in a consonant then -e
To add ed, -ing, -er ,est and y (or any other
suffix beginning with a vowel letter) Drop the
e.
smile
smil
smiled
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A one syllable word ending in a single vowel then
a single consonant
To add ed, -ing, -er and est Double the last
consonant.
pop
popp
popped
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Prefixes

• Letters that go at the beginning of a word and
  change the meaning.

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un
This prefix means not.
happy
un
This prefix means under.
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there/their/theyre

• Homophones

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Learning Platform

• Look in the Letters and Sounds Room for games and
  activities

http//www.surreymle.org.uk
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Bug Club
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KS1 Phonics Screening
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Why are the children being screened?

• Every Year 1 child in the country will be taking
  the phonics screening check in the same week in
  June.
• The aim of the check is to ensure that all
  children are able to read by the end of year 2.
• This midpoint check will ensure that we have a
  clear understanding of what the children need to
  learn in year 2 and to identify children that
  need additional support.

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What does the screen entail?

• Children will be given 40 words to read. 20 of
  the words are real words and 20 of them are
  non-words. The non-words or nonsense words will
  have a picture of an alien next to them so
  children will know they are not real words.
• Children will be asked to sound out a word and
  blend the sounds together e.g. b-e-g beg
  or e-c-t ect
• The focus of the check is to see which sounds the
  children know and therefore the children will be
  asked to read made up nonsense words.

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Examples of words
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Examples of words
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When, Where, Who and How?

• The screening will take place throughout the week
  beginning Monday 15th June. It is very important
  your child is in school during this week.
• The children will complete the check one at a
  time in a quiet area of the school.
• Each Yr 1 class teacher will conduct the
  screening check for their class.
• Each check will take about 5 - 10 minutes.
• In my experience children seem to enjoy this time
  spent reading words with the teacher but if a
  child did become distressed the screen would be
  stopped at that point.

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The Results

• In previous years the pass mark has been 32 out
  of 40.
• However last year the government decided not to
  release the pass mark before results were
  submitted.
• Once the school has been informed of the pass
  mark we will be able to inform you of your
  childs results.
• If your child has not achieved the expected
  result, they will receive additional phonics
  support in Year 2 and will have a chance to
  re-sit the phonics screen in the final term of
  Year 2.

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What can you do to help?

• Use your childs phonics book at home to practise
  sound
• recognition and reading of words by sounding out
  and
• blending.
• Use the internet or apps to play phonics games
  with your child. Some of these games include
  nonsense words which is good practise for the
  screening.
• Here is one of our favourites Buried Treasure
• http//www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html
• (See hand out)

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What can you do to help?

• Encourage your child to sound out when reading
  or writing.
• Help them to spot where more than one letter work
  together to
• make one sound.
• Digraph- 2 letters making one sound
• cow
• Trigraphs- 3 letters making one sound
• night
• Split vowel digraphs- 2 vowels with a consonant
  in-between.
• spine - i_e
• make - a_e

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If English is not your first language

• Talk and read to your child in your first
  language
• Read your childs reading book with them and
  practise tricky words
• Refer to video link for how the phonemes sound in
  English
• Talk to your childs class teacher
• Bug Club has read aloud option on books

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REMEMBER

• Phonics is not the only thing needed to become a
  fluent reader.
• Please continue to read with your child each
  night and encourage them to
• Sound out unfamiliar words.
• Spot tricky words and know they cant be
  sounded out.
• Re-read to check it makes sense.
• Use pictures for clues.
• Ask questions about the book.
• Read stories to them as well as listening to them
  read.
• And most importantly ENJOY READING!

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Thank you for coming