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Finding Out About Phonics Workshop for Parents

Join us at the Phonics Workshop for Parents to delve into the importance of phonics, its connection to St. Mary’s reading curriculum, and how to aid your child’s phonics learning at home. Explore the Letters and Sounds program, decoding skills, and interactive phonics sessions. Learn key terms like phoneme and grapheme, phases of phonics development, and ways to engage children in reading activities. Discover tips for enhancing phonics skills and supporting your child's progress.

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Finding Out About Phonics Workshop for Parents

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  1. Finding Out About PhonicsWorkshop for Parents

  2. Objectives • To understand why we teach phonics. • To understand how phonics is taught at St. Mary’s. • To understand how phonics links in with the reading curriculum. • To understand how you can support your child in their learning of phonics.

  3. The Reading Curriculum • Phonics and the development of decoding skills • Shared reading – use of shared texts to model reading strategies • Guided reading – sharp focus on needs of a particular group • Independent reading (individual, paired) –developing range of choice and experience opportunities to select own choice of texts- independence/motivation • Stories – hearing books read aloud • Family involvement in reading

  4. What is Phonics? Knowledge of the Alphabetic Code Skills of segmentation and blending

  5. Letters and Sounds • In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme. • This is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education and Skills which consists of six phases. • Taught daily in 20 minute sessions that are fun, interactive and multi-sensory. • Children are taught to separate sounds within words as well as blend sounds together.

  6. So What Does a Phonics Session Look Like? Revisit and Review • Practise previously learned letters • Practise oral blending and segmentation Teach • Teach a new letter with an action • Teach blending and/or segmentation with letters Practise • Practise reading and/or spelling words with the new letter Apply • Read or write a caption (with the teacher) using one or more high-frequency words and words containing the new letter Assess learning against criteria

  7. A Few Technical Terms… • Phoneme • Smallest unit of sound you can hear in a word. • Can be represented in more than one way: e.g. cat, kennel, Christmas, quack • Grapheme • The letters that represent the phoneme. • Can be 1, 2, 3 or more letters (e.g. ough)

  8. Phase 2 Begins in the Reception Year • Children will learn their first 19 phonemes: Set 1: s a t p Set 2: i n m d Set 3: g o c k Set 4: ck (as in duck) e u r Set 5: h b l f ff (as in puff) ll (as in hill) ss (as in hiss) • They will use these phonemes to read and spell simple “consonant-vowel-consonant” (CVC) words: c-a-t cat

  9. Phase 3 • Started in Reception. • Children will enter phase 3 once they know the first 19 phonemes and can blend and segment to read and spell CVC words. • They will learn another 26 phonemes: j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er • They will use these to read and spell words such as: chip, rain and sing.

  10. How Many Sounds are in these Words? night Dad . . . . . crayon toast . . . . . . . jumper . . . .

  11. Phase 4 No new sounds are introduced. Children enter this phase when they know most of the Phase 2 and 3 sounds and can use them to read and spell simple words. Reading and writing longer words using sounds they already know: clapgreen tent burnt spend trust

  12. Phase 5 Teach new graphemes for reading: ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e Learn alternative pronunciations of graphemes (the same grapheme can represent more than one phoneme): Fin/find hot/cold cat/cent got/giant but/put cow/blow tie/field eat/bread farmer/her hat/what yes/by/verychin/school/chef out/shoulder/could/you

  13. Tricky Words There are many words that cannot be blended or segmented because they are irregular. the was said you some These are split into the 6 phases too and are taught alongside the sounds. Children develop their own ways of remembering these, but one way can be through the use of mnemonic.

  14. The Importance of Correct Articulation of Sounds • Although there are 26 letters in the English alphabet, there are more than 40 speech sounds. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwJx1NSineE

  15. Not all Children will Learn at the Same Rate! Your child will be supported whatever their rate of learning. There is a very close link between difficulty with phonics and hearing, so if your child is making progress more slowly than expected, it is worth having their hearing checked.

  16. How can I Help? Read together regularly Play word games e.g. Tricky word hunt Sing an alphabet song together Play ‘I spy’ Continue to play with magnetic letters, using some two-grapheme (letter) combinations, eg: r-ai-n = rain Praise your child for trying out words Play pairs with words Write sounds in sand, shaving foam and play dough Write cards, shopping lists and emails together

  17. Some Useful Websites: www.mrthorne.com www.phonicsplay.co.uk www.sentenceplay.co.uk www.ictgames.com/literacy.html

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