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Learn the essential techniques of phonics for reading, writing, and spelling. Understand synthetic phonics and the Phonic Alphabet. Explore tools like Jolly Phonics and Letters and Sounds to support your child's learning. Discover fun activities to enhance phonics at home.
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Phonics Training for Parents October 2017
What is phonics? • Letter sounds – not letter names • Government initiative • Good phonics = good reading, writing and spelling.
Synthetic Phonics We use an approach called Synthetic Phonics. • Phonics for reading Children are taught to break down a word and say each phoneme (sound). • Phonics for writing Children are taught to reverse this process, saying the word and segment the sounds
The Phonic Alphabet • The English language has 44 phonemes • They should be taught to write each letter, forming it accurately. • Children are taught to produce the sounds as shortly as possible, e.g no ‘uh’ on the end of ‘d’ and ‘g’.
Enunciation • Teaching phonics requires a technical skill in enunciation • Phonemes should be articulated clearly and precisely. • Demonstration – what skills do you need to write the word cat ?
Jolly Phonics • Each sound is supported by a story, a song and an action. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybiJTZNLvTI • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjKq8s8154s
Letters and Sounds • 6 phases • Phase 1-listening to sounds • Phase 2 and beyond- introducing the phonemes.
Phase 1:Good listening skills • Speaking and listening skills (games) • Rhyme – Willoughby Wallaby Woo! • Alliteration – Fabulous Fred or Zippy Zoe!
Other teaching techniques • Alphablocks– use the cbeebies website, or BBCiplayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0TDJbQdEUM
Phase 1 outcomes: • They may be able to distinguish between speech sounds. • Many - blend and segment orally • Some - recognise words that rhyme and be able to provide a string of rhyming words e.g cat, bat, sat
Letters and Sounds:Phase 2 • 19 phonemes and graphemes • Blend and segment • Tricky words
Letters and Sounds: Phase 3 • Next 25 graphemes • Middle vowel phonemes e.g rain will be segmented into r-ai-n .
Expectations • Phase 1: majority of children will be confident and achieved this level by the end of Nursery. • Most should leave Reception having achieved Phase 3 • Reading and writing independently • Confident readers and writers
Reading • Your child will read at least once a week with an adult at school • You should read each book at least 3 times (Once for decoding; twice for fluency and the third time for comprehension). • Any reading that you do at home should be logged in the reading diary. • In the summer term the children may be given two books to take home, depending on their reading ability.
Words • We have a set of the phase 2 and 3 tricky words for you to take home. • Practise with your child regularly as this will aide their reading and writing skills. Try to make this as fun as possible! • Record this in the reading diary. • We incorporate these words into our Phonics sessions.
How to help at home • Use the pack we provide with you today- stick the sound mats up on the fridge! • Practise isolated sounds at home – possibly display them on the fridge? • Challenge the children to find objects that begin with a certain sound. • Play ‘I Spy’ with phonemes not letter names. • Practise letter formation. • Play rhyming bingo, lotto and extend rhyming strings. • Play games with word cards. • Make sentences with word cards.
MANY THANKS TO YOU ALL! • Any questions?