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Phonics workshop for parents. Philip Webb Teaching and Learning Consultant. What is phonics?. Knowing the sounds that different letters and combinations of letters make Being able to blend these sounds together from left to right to make a word. Essential phonics knowledge. Adults need to:
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Phonics workshop for parents Philip Webb Teaching and Learning Consultant
What is phonics? • Knowing the sounds that different letters and combinations of letters make • Being able to blend these sounds together from left to right to make a word
Essential phonics knowledge Adults need to: know what graphemes are know what phonemes are …and how they work together
Year 1 - Phonics Screening Check • Real words • beg • Alien words • vap
Set 1: s, a, t, p Set 2: i, n, m, d Set 3: g, o, c, k Phase 2
Phase 2 Set 4: ck, e, u, r Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2dhD9zR6hk&sns=em
What is a phoneme? Smallest unit of sound in a word Approximately 44 phonemes in English • What is a grapheme? • Letters which represent phonemes are known as graphemes
3 big things about phonics A phoneme can be represented by one or more letters: psh ee ear
3 big things about phonics The same phoneme can be represented / spelled in more than one way: ai ay a-e
3 big things about phonics The same spelling can represent more than one sound: ear bear
What is a digraph? Digraph: Two letters, which make one sound. ck ff sh ch ea ie ir oy
What is a split digraph? A digraph in which the two letters are not adjacent – e.g. cake, hope, cube • cake
Saying the sounds Phonemes should be sounded out clearly and precisely
Go to YouTube • Search for Articulation of Phonemes • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s
Blending ‘Blending’ means merging the individual phonemes in order to pronounce a word.
Go to YouTube • Search for Mr Thorne
Tricky word • digraph • tricky word – digraph – trigraph – consonant cluster