Phonics Curriculum Workshop for Parents

October 2019

Today’s Briefing• Phonics – A recap

• The Phonics Screening Check

• Spelling – Phonics, High Frequency and ‘Tricky’

• Books and Reading

• Questions and Answers

• Resources

Did you know?

The English language has

• 26 letters

• 44 sounds

• Over 150 ways to spell those sounds

It’s complicated!

How we read…Last night after closty, my flimers and I went downtown to the shillybog. It was late and my other flimers were already there. Some of them were trogging and others were lutzing to the blane. I’m not a very good lutzer, but I love to listen to the blane. My friends nelled me a few trogs and pretty soon I was lutzing, too! I don’t really sartle it clearly. I woke up this morning in my warban with a terrible kerfufle. My room mate gave me two sloves to vipax, so I should feel twiggle soon. I hope so because I don’t want to be late for Lynn’s molentale!

The Simple View of Reading

• Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondence

• Word Recognition

• Language Comprehension

All words are

made up of

sounds

cat

chip

sight

phonics

Understanding Phonics

All words are

made up of

sounds

cat

chip

sight

phonics

Understanding Phonics

44

sounds

44

sounds

44

sounds

v

sh

igh

44

sounds

In Reception;

Simple Code (One grapheme for

each phoneme)

Phases 2, 3 & 4

The correct articulation of the sounds (phonemes)

n nuh

f fuh

Learning Sounds (Phonemes)

Digraphs (two letters making one sound or phoneme)

Trigraphs (three letters making one

sound or phoneme)

igh ear ure air

Blending for

reading

chipUnderstanding Phonics

Segmenting

for spelling

and writing

Blending is recognising the letter sounds in a written word, for example c-u-p, and merging or synthesising them in the order in which they are written to pronounce the word ‘cup’.

Segmenting is identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word (e.g. ‘him’ = h – i – m) and writing down letters for each sound to form the word.

Blending and Segmenting

We use robot arms!

Reading Tricky / High Frequency Words

Letters and Sounds

• Phase 1 (Nursery)

• Phases 2, 3 & 4 (Reception)• ‘Jolly Phonics’ to introduce sounds

• Phase 5 (Year 1)

• Phase 6 (Year 2)

The Teaching Sequence

• Every day• 20 minutes

Revisit & Review

Teach Practice Apply

Phase 5

s

s

ss

se

c

ce

s

ss

se

c

ce

sat

dress

horse

circle

piece

Over 150 ways to

spell the 44 sounds

Over 150 ways to

spell the 44 sounds

This is our job in Year 1

Alternative

pronunciations

u: but unit pull

a: ?

Alternative

pronunciations

u: but unit pull

a: hat acorn fast was

Alternative

pronunciations

/c/: k ck qu ch

/sh/: ch t ss s c(cash chef station pressure sure, ocean)

New Graphemes

ay (day) oy (boy) wh (when)

ou (out) ir (girl) ph (photo)

ie (tie) ue (blue) ew (new)

ea (eat) aw (saw) oe (toe)

ey (honey) au (Paul)

New Graphemes

a-e (make) e-e (these)

i-e (like) o-e (home)

u-e (rule)

The Phonics Screening Check

• All Year 1 children in England

• June 2020

• 40 words

• 5 – 10 minutes

• Real and Pseudo words – all decodable

Pseudo – Alien words

Specific Issue – split digraph!

ratcodmadkitthem

ratecodemadekitetheme

Reading

• Book ‘banded’ books

• Library books

• Other books

Reading skills

• Phonics

• Tricky words

• Reading a range of texts

• Retelling, comprehension (literal and inferential), discussion and explanation

Sharing Books with Children

Please read regularly with your children!Reading records and books in school every day!

• Library visits

• Reading with your child

• Bedtime stories

• The text environment

Reading for enjoyment!

Next Steps…

• Website Resources

• Update Emails / SchoolPing

• Questions…

Thank you for coming!