meadgate primary school thursday 22 nd october 2015 phonics talk
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Meadgate Primary School
Thursday 22nd October 2015
PHONICS TALK
AIMS OF TODAY
• Teach some useful phonics terms
• Outline the different stages of phonics
• Share how phonics is taught at Meadgate Primary School
• Show examples of activities and resources we use to teach phonics
• Give you an opportunity to ask questions
• Develop your confidence in helping your children with phonics and reading
PHONICS IS ALL ABOUT USING…
Learning phonics will help your child to become a good reader and writer.
skills for reading and
spelling
knowledge of the alphabet
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TERMINOLOGY
• Phonemes: The smallest units of sound that are found within a word (the sounds you can
hear)
• Grapheme: The spelling of the sound (the letters you can see)
• Digraph: Two letters that make one sound when read - ee
• Trigraphs: Three letters that make one sound - igh
• CVC: Stands for consonant, vowel, consonant – dog, lock
• Segmenting:Breaking up a word into its sounds
• Blending: Putting the sounds together to read a word
• Tricky words: Words that cannot easily be decoded - go
PHASE 1GETTING READY FOR PHONICS
• This phase involves:
• Tuning into sounds
• Listening &
remembering
sounds
• Talking about
sounds.
• Within 7 aspects:
• 1 – Environmental
• 2 – Instrumental sounds
• 3 – Body Percussion
• 4 – Rhythm and rhyme
• 5 – Alliteration
• 6 – Voice sounds
• 7 – Oral blending and
segmenting.
PHASE 2THE FIRST 19 PHONEMES
• Set 1: s, a, t, p
• Set 2: i, n, m, d
• Set 3: g, o, c, k
• Set 4: ck, e, u, r
• Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss
PHASE 3A FURTHER 25 PHONEMES
• Set 6: j, v, w, x
• Set 7: y, z, zz, qu
• Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng
• Vowel digraphs & trigraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er
PHASE 4CONSOLIDATION
• This phase consolidates what the children have learnt in the previous phases.
• Introduces adjacent consonants (e.g. flag)
• Introduces polysyllabic words (e.g. windmill)
PHASE 5ALTERNATIVES
• New graphemes and their alternative pronunciations
• Vowel 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
LEARNING ALL THE VARIATIONS!
The same phoneme using different graphemes:
burn
first
term
heard
work
The same grapheme representing different phonemes:
meat bread
he bed
bear hear
cow low
PHASE 6SUPPORT FOR SPELLINGS
• Focuses on spellings and learning rules for spelling alternatives:
• Look at syllables, base words, suffixes & prefixes, analogy and mnemonics
• Learn about past tense, rules for adding ‘ing’ and irregular verbs.
A PHONICS LESSON
Revisit/Review
Practise phonemes, high frequency and tricky words learnt previously http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/BuriedTreasure2.html
Teach Teach new phoneme, grapheme, strategy or word
Practice Play game or experiment with new information
Apply Read/write sentence containing new information
20 minute daily session
SEGMENTING
• Breaking down words for spelling
• Hear a whole word & say every sound within
catc a t
SEGMENTING
queenqu ee n
BLENDING
• Building words from phonemes to read
• Hear separate sounds in a word, blend them together & say whole word.
c a tcat
BLENDING
qu ee nqueen
YEAR 1 PHONICS TEST
HOW TO HELP AT HOME
• Play I Spy using letter names and sounds
• Play games online
• Robot game – sound talk words like a robot, e.g. b-u-s instead of bus
• Read and write silly sentences & fake words
• Physical activities – water pistol, chalk, ball, fly swat
• Ask “Do you think it looks right?” and encourage them to explore alternative spellings
HOW TO HELP AT HOME - READING
• Little & often everyday
• Point to each letter & say individual sounds aloud
• Read words by blending (pushing) sounds together
• Use terms – letters & words (and/or phonics terms if feeling brave!)
• Ask “Does that sound right?” and “Does it sound like a word you know?”
• Encourage use of pictures or reading around words to check guesses make sense
• Encourage reading of ‘tricky words’ by sight (not sounded out)
• Ask questions to check understanding
• Be positive and comment on effort and use of strategies.
USEFUL WEBSITES• Oxford Owl -
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/expert-help/phonics-made-easy
Includes recordings of how individual sounds are pronounced and how sounds are blended.
• Cbeebies – Alphablocks Guide to Phonics -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics
A parents’ guide on how phonics works, including guidance videos on how to help your child read
• Jolly Phonics - http://jollylearning.co.uk/2010/10/29/hear-the-letter-sounds
Shows the order in which the sounds are taught. It includes recordings of the individual sounds, alongside actions and letter formation rhymes.
• Mr Thorne - http://mrthorne.com/
Videos to support the teaching of phonics.
• Phonics Play - http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/index.htm
Fun and interactive games to help children practise using phonics knowledge and skills.
ANY QUESTIONS?