Phonics

PhonicsYear 1St. Clare CollegePembroke Primary2016Pembroke Primary

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What is Phonics?Phonicsis a method for teachingreadingandwritingtheEnglish language.

The goal of phonics is to enable beginning readers to decode new written words by sounding them out.Pembroke Primary

The difference between:

Letter namesEach letter has a nameThis link will guide you with letter names:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_-lz2BI2Co

Letter soundsEach letter has a soundThis link will guide you with letter soundshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyKdUpJQBTY

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Learning the letter sounds Term 2 New English Phonics Scheme BIG CAT

Sounds that are going to be done in Term 2:

s, a, t, i ,p, n, c, k, ck, e, o, r, m, d, g, u, l, h, f,b, ai , j, oa, ee

In the English alphabet there are 26 letters. From those only 7 letters have a new sound that students need to learn.

Besides these letters there are also phonemes such as ee - sheep

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How lessons are deliveredRevise letter name (songs)

Story with picture (We have a story for each letter)

Introduce sound and action

Song(We have songs for each letter)

Big Cat Session

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Example of action song for each letter

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Letter formation

Capital letters are being introduced in term 2. We call them also The Upper CaseWhen using The Lower Case, PRECURSIVE letters are used. That is letters that have exit strokes (flick) to encourage cursive writing at later stages. However children are also exposed to PRINT letters especially in books.Pembroke Primary

BlendingBlending means sounding out the letters

Example: s u n = sunc a t = cat

Our green copybook (called Grammar) has lists of words that children can:SPELL BLEND READPembroke Primary

Decoding - ChoppingDecoding works in the opposite way. When child can blend properly, one can introduce decoding.Give the child a word and ask him/her to give you the sounds in that word. Important that you use a finger for each sound.

Example pin (show 3 fingers) p i n

Sessions from Big Cat Software are being done everyday in class.

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Games and Activities that can be done at home:I spy something beginning with .Counting sounds in a wordRhyming words game (example: cat, rat, mat, sat.Take away a sound (example: van -taking away the v and replacing it with f is fan

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Tricky/Fast words

In year 1 we have 60 irregular keywords called tricky words. We cannot spell and blend tricky words. They have to be learnt by heart. These are words which are frequently used in books.A sheet with these 60 words was given to all the children in Year 1 and we are shading with a yellow crayon all the new words that we do every week.Pembroke Primary

3rd Term During the 3rd term the children will be doing other 20 sounds.z, w, oo (as in wood), oo (as in cool), ie, v, y, ch, sh, th (as in that), th (as in thank), ng, x, qu, ar, er, ou, oi, ue and or.

Dictations and Creative Writing will follow during the third term.

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Dictation-After the Easter holidays we will be having Spelling games/dictations in class. -These are done every Monday morning. Important that parents sign on the Dictation copybook every week and that corrections have to be done when necessary.-Both Maltese and English dictations will be given and words to be studied are to be given in a form of list to all the children beforehand.

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