dunkirk primary school helping your child learn to read

Dunkirk Primary School

Helping your child learn to read

What is Phonics?

The relationships between letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes)

phonics is

skills ofsegmentationand blending

Knowing about letters

and sounds+

Words your child will use

phoneme

The sounds that make up a word.

Words your child will use

grapheme

Letter(s) written to show the sounds in a

word.

t ai igh

Phonemes and Graphemes

• A grapheme may consist of one (t), two (kn) or more letters (igh)

• A phoneme can be represented/spelled in more than one way cat, kennel, choir

• The same grapheme may represent more than one phoneme me, met

Pure Sounds DVD

Some Definitions

segmenting

Identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word

h-i-m s-t-or-k

and writing down or manipulating letters for each sound (phoneme) to form

him stork

Some Definitions

blending

Recognising the letter-sounds in a written word, for example

c-u-p, sh-ee-p

and merging or synthesising them in the order in which they are written to pronounce the word

cup, sheep.

Some Definitions

split digraph

A digraph in which the two letters are not adjacent.

make rose chute

rain bright

witch daughter

Sound Buttons

rain bright

witch daughter

Sound Buttons

Games to do at home

• Sound buttons• Silly voices• Flash cards• Chew it up/pull it out• Hunt the sound in the book• Have a look at the school website

Reading is all around

Glossary

• Phoneme-each sound in a word• Grapheme-letters to show each sound• Blending-joining each sound together to

make a word• Segmenting-breaking up a word into each

sounds• Split digraph-a long sound that is split by

another letter• Tricky words-words that don’t follow sound

rules

Reading in school

• Phonics learning sessions• Guided reading• Modelled reading• Class books to share• Independent reading• Book club• Book assemblies• Reading records