Phonics Workshop. An overview of how synthetic phonics is taught at Days Lane Primary School. Thursday 10th November 2016

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1 Phonics Workshop An overview of how synthetic phonics is taught at Days Lane Primary School. Thursday 10th November 2016

2 Why Synthetic Phonics? At Days Lane, we teach synthetic phonics as the primary approach for reading and writing. We follow the recommended teaching order of the 44 phonemes. Children learn in phases. The children move to the next phase as soon as they are ready. These phases are fluid, as assessment takes place at regular intervals.

3 Lesson format In each year group, phonic lessons follow the same format: Revise: The children will revise previous learning. Teach: New phonemes and high frequency words/tricky words will be taught. Practise: The children will practise the new learning by reading and/or writing the words. Apply: The children will apply their new learning by reading, writing and a range of activities that support consolidation of learning.

4 Phonics Phases There are 6 phases in phonics. Phase 1 (continued throughout the phases). Children listen to and identify sounds around them; make sounds with voices, instruments and body percussion (e.g. clapping or tapping the knees); explore rhythm and rhyme (nursery rhymes); sound talking (oral segmenting and blending) e.g. Put on your c-oa-t. Phase 2 children learn the five sets of letters and learn to segment and blend these phonemes for reading and spelling in phase 2. Phase 3 consists of consonant and vowel digraphs (2 letters 1 sound). All 44 phonemes have been taught but only one spelling for each.

5 Phase 4 review and revise the grapheme/phoneme correspondences. Blending and segmenting polysyllabic words and words containing 4 or more sounds. Phase 5 The purpose of this phase is for the children to broaden their knowledge of graphemes and phonemes for use in reading and writing. They will learn new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these and graphemes they already know, where relevant. Some of the alternatives will already have been encountered in the high-frequency words that have been taught. When spelling words, they will learn to choose the appropriate graphemes to represent phonemes and they will begin to build wordspecific knowledge of the spelling of words.

6 Phase 6 By the beginning of Phase 6, the children should know most of the common grapheme/phoneme correspondences (GPCs). They should be able to read hundreds of words, doing this in three ways: reading the words automatically decoding them quickly and silently because their sounding and blending routine is now well established decoding them aloud. The children s spelling should be phonemically accurate, although it may still be a little unconventional at times. During this phase, children become fluent readers and increasingly accurate spellers.

7 Year 1 In Year 1, the children have a phonics session each morning and this will be followed up with a second practise session if required. Children in Year 1 would be expected to revise Phase 4 before moving on to Phase 5. Alternate spellings of a phoneme e.g. ai or ay Alternate pronunciations for single vowels e.g. a in hat or was Alternate pronunciations for consonants e.g. g in got or giant Alternate pronunciations for vowel digraphs e.g. ow in cow or blow However, if they are not ready they will continue on the Phase that they are working within. They will learn within Phase groups as well as applying their phonic knowledge in reading and writing within English lessons.

8 Year 2 In year 2, the children have a phonics session each morning Children in Year 2 would be expected to revise phase 5 phonemes and then move on to phase 6. In phase 6, the children will learn about plurals, common suffixes such as _ed and _ing, common prefixes such as un_ and compound words e.g. foot + ball = football However, if they are not ready they will continue on the Phase that they are working within. They will learn in Phase groups as well as applying their phonic knowledge in reading and writing within English lessons.

9 Pure Sounds It is very important that children learn the pure sound! m - a - n = man NOT mer - a - ner = manner Here are a few common misconceptions:

10 Sound buttons We use sound buttons to support children in reading and writing unfamiliar words. A dot is used for a phoneme that is represented by 1 letter. A dash is used for a phoneme that is represented by 2 or more letters a digraph/trigraph. duck

11 Sound buttons for a split digraph A split digraph is when two letters make one sound but are split with a consonant. make

12 Hand signals for blending unfamiliar words to read In order to reinforce the blending of phonemes for reading, we use hand signals to help blend decodable words that you might like to use at home. sound it blend it read it

13 sound it blend it read it sock Can you add sound buttons?

14 sound it blend it read it sock Can you add sound buttons?

15 We use the sound it signal for segmenting words for writing Sound it to count how many phonemes are in a word. This will then support your child to spell that word. How many phonemes can you hear in mess?

16 Real and alien words We learn to read by segmenting the word into phonemes and then blending the phonemes. We read real and pseudo (alien) words in order to practise this segmenting and blending.

17 Alien words These are always accompanied by an alien picture to show the children that they are not real words. muzz

18 Phonics Screening Check Towards the end of Year 1, all children sit the Phonics Screening Check. The test is administered on a 1:1 basis The pass mark is not known until after the testing period is over The test consists of a combination of 40 real and pseudo (alien) words. The children are able to dot and dash to support segmenting and blending for reading If your child does not pass the test, then they resit towards the end of Year 2.

19 Phonics learning is fun! The children learn and practise their phonemes in lots of fun ways: Sound talking and rhyming Playing games table games or interactive games on the computer Using phoneme frames, sound buttons and whiteboards to spell words Matching words to pictures Making words with phonemes Flashcard time challenges Reading and writing sentences.

20 Some useful internet resources has explanations, resources and interactive games for all phases. demonstrates actions for the phonemes and you can listen to the pure sounds. some free resources and interactive games, however you cannot access everything without a subscription. Mr Thorne and Geraldine the Giraffe.

21 Any questions