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Reception Phonics
parent information
meeting
10th October 2019
Aims of the session
Understand what phonics is
Understand its importance in developing early
reading and writing skills.
How we teach phonics at HTP
Blending sounds for reading
Segmenting sounds for spelling
How to support your child at home
What is phonics?
Phonics refers to the sounds that letters make.
Letter sounds are far more important than
knowing letter names at this stage.
There are 44 phonemes (sounds) in the English
language. These can be represented in different
ways, some sounds have many variations in how
they are spelt.
How we teach a new sound
How we teach a new sound
Say some words and see if children can hear the newly taught sound:
sun, cat, lips, ship- where can you hear the sound?
Can you think of any words with the new sound?
Show the letter shape:
Look at some words with the ‘s’ in. Can you spot it?
sit
pot
has
sip
cats
Supporting reading at home
Sound out new words and blend the sounds in words
Oral blending
A book is not necessary to practise reading skills.
Blending is THE most crucial skill required to accurately
decode.
Practise ‘sound-talk’ or ‘robot-talk’ in conversations with
your child:
e.g. Can you pick up the ‘s-p-oo-n’?
I have ‘t-e-n’ pennies in my purse.
Tricky words
Some words are not spelt as they sound. We call these ‘tricky words’.
We have to learn how to spell these high frequency words.
Look at the word below, what part is tricky, which part is as it sounds:
said
How does phonics develop writing?
Children learn how to listen to sounds in words.
They will then try to attune themselves to decipher where
in a word they can hear a sound, how many sounds are in
a word and verbally break down a word into sounds.
Breaking down words into sounds is called ‘segmenting’.
Children learn to record the sounds in the order that they
hear them.
Initially, children will write phonetically. When they write
independently many words may be spelt wrong but they
are usually phonetically plausible.
Encourage your child to ‘mark make’. This is a prerequisite to early
writing.
Children need to be able to make big and small movements. Their
physical development is key to this.
Using paint brushes, crayons, chalk, their fingers to make patterns or
letter shapes in trays of rice or sand is useful.
Magnetic letters allow children to develop their ability to write
independently without having to form letters.
Talk about sounds in words, their own name and encourage them to
write these down.
Lower case letters rather than capitals at this stage.
Supporting writing at home
Our handwriting script
We use a pre-cursive font for writing.
All letters start from the line.