Phonics and Reading

Workshop6th October 2015

In school, we follow the Letters

and Sounds programme. Letters

and Sounds is a phonics resource

published by the Department for

Education and Skills which consists

of six phases. We use the Jolly

Phonics actions to make phonics

memorable.

Phoneme – a sound Graphemes – how a sound is written  Digraph – 2 letters making 1 sound Trigraph – 3 letters making 1 sound Split digraph – long vowel sound that has been split e.g. like

Segmenting and blending  

Terminology

Phase 1 There are 7 aspects with 3 strands.

A1 – Environmental

A2 – Instrumental sounds

A3 – Body Percussion

A4 – Rhythm and rhyme

A5 – Alliteration

A6 – Voice sounds

A7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

Phase 2Set 1: s, a, t, pSet 2: i, n, m, dSet 3: g, o, c, kSet 4: ck, e, u, rSet 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

BlendingBuilding words from phonemes to

read.

c a tcat

Blending

qu ee nqueen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wGfNiweEkI

SegmentingBreaking down words for spelling.

Catc a t

Segmenting

queenqu ee n

Phase 3Set 6: j, v, w, x

Set 7: y, z, zz, qu

Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng

Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er

A Game of Full Circle

Any volunteers?

Phase 4This phase consolidates all the

children have learnt in the previous phases.

Children practice blending and segmenting adjacent consonants

For example – flag, jump, stamphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5v35_jYJYw

Phase 5Children will be taught new

graphemes for phonemes already learnt.

Digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au

Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

Alternative pronunciations of graphemes e.g. g in giant

Phase 6The aim of this phase is to help

children to become fluent readers and writers.

They investigate prefixes, suffixes and other spelling patterns.

Children remain in this phase for the rest of their school career!

Year 1 Phonics Test