Phonics Parent Workshop. November 2016

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1 Phonics Parent Workshop November 2016

2 Letters & Sounds Letters and Sounds is a six-phase programme designed to help teach children to read and spell with phonics.

3 Technical Vocabulary Phoneme Trigraph A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word. High = h igh 2 phonemes Cat = c a t 3 phonemes Float = f l oa t 4 phonemes Digraph

4 Technical Vocabulary Grapheme Letter(s) representing a phoneme. t ai igh

5 What is Phonics? phonics is skills of segmentation and blending + knowledge of the alphabetic code

6 Technical Vocabulary Segmentation Hear and say the individual phonemes within words In order to spell, children need to segment a word into its component phonemes and choose a grapheme to represent each phoneme

7 Technical Vocabulary Blending Merging the individual phonemes together to pronounce a word. To read unfamiliar words a child must recognise (sound out) each grapheme, not each letter, then merge the phonemes together to make a word

8 Sound Buttons

9 Phoneme Frames WORD shelf PHONEMES dress think string sprint flick

10 Phoneme Frames WORD PHONEMES shelf sh e l f dress d r e ss think th i n k string s t r i ng sprint s p r i n t flick f l i ck

11 Knowledge of letters There are approximately 44 sounds/phonemes in the English language. The alphabet contains only 26 letters, but we use it to make all the graphemes that represent the phonemes of English. In other words, a sound can be represented by a letter (e.g. s ) or a group of letters (e.g. th or igh ) rain may make deaf mean

12 Phases of Progression Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Phase 6

13 Letter Progression

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15 Suggested daily teaching sequence Introduction(objectives & success criteria) Revisit & review Teach Practise Apply Assess learning against success criteria

16 Revisit and Review Practise previously learned letters Practise oral blending and segmentation

17 Teach Teach a new sound/grapheme Teach blending and/or segmentation Teach one or two tricky words Teach Cursive Handwriting

18 Practise Practise reading and/or spelling words with the new letter

19 Apply Read or write a caption (with the teacher) using one or more and words containing the new letter (week 3 onwards)

20 Importance of Pronunciation

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22 Websites

23 Every Year 1 child in the country will be taking a statutory phonics screening check in the same week. The check is very similar to tasks the children already complete during phonics lessons. The focus of the check is to provide evidence of children s decoding and blending skills, not to test their vocabulary.

24 They will be asked to sound out a word and blend the sounds together. e.g. d-o-g dog The check will consist of 40 words and non-words; Children will be told if the word is a real or alien word, with a corresponding alien image. It takes approximately 5 minutes per child.

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26 The check will consist of reading 40 words and non-words (made-up words) The children will be asked to sound out a word and blend the sounds together. e.g. s-t-ar-t Children will be told if the word is a real or alien (made-up) word. The word will be put into context by having a corresponding alien image. The children will be asked to read the alien s name. The children MUST sound out the correct phonemes and blend together whichever graphemes form that particular word.

27 Teachers will conduct all of the screening checks with the children; The children will complete the check one to one in a quiet area of the school; We are not permitted to indicate to the children at the time whether they have correctly sounded out and / or blended the word.

28 A statutory reading check that every Year 1 child in the country will complete in the same week. It will take place in school during the week beginning 15th June. The check cannot be retaken at any other time so it is essential that your child is in school this week. The focus of the check is to provide evidence of children s decoding and blending skills, not to test their vocabulary.

29 The results of each check will be sent to the Local Authority. Each Local Authority will then submit the results to the Department for Education. We will inform you of whether your child has met the national standard. Children s reading develops at different rates and if your child s scores fails to achieve the national standard, further support will be implemented this year and going into Year 2. Re-takes of the screening test for these children will take place in Year 2.

30 REMEMBER: Phonics is not the only thing needed to become a fluent reader. Revise the Phase 2, 3 & 5 graphemes at home with your child using the Phonics sound mats. Practice reading the sample real and pseudo words with your child, encouraging them to sound out the word and blend it together. Help your child to use their phonic knowledge to make up words using single letters, digraphs and trigraphs Please continue to read with your child each night and encourage them to: Sound out Re-read to check it makes sense Use pictures for clues Ask questions about the book And most importantly ENJOY READING!

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