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Phonics Parents Workshop November 2013. In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme. Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education and Skills which consists of six phases. A phonics quiz. 1) What is a phoneme?
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Phonics Parents Workshop November 2013
In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme. Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education and Skills which consists of six phases.
A phonics quiz • 1) What is a phoneme? • 2) How many phonemes are in the word ‘strap’? • 3) What is a digraph? • 4) Give an example of a consonant digraph. • What is a CVC word? • Give an example. • What is a ‘trigraph’? • Give an example • How many phonemes are in the word ‘twenty’?
A phonics quiz • 1) What is a phoneme? A unit of sound. • 2) How many phonemes are in the word ‘strap’? 5 • 3) What is a digraph? Two letters which make one sound. • 4) Give an example of a consonant diagraph. ch sh ll th • 5) What is a CVC word? consonant-vowel-consonant • 6) Give an example • 7) What is a ‘trigraph’? Three letters which make one sound. • 8) Give an example igh • 9) How many phonemes are in the word ‘twenty’? 6
Phase 1 • There are 7 aspects with 3 strands. • A1 – Environmental • A2 – Instrumental sounds • A3 – Body Percussion • A4 – Rhythm and rhyme • A5 – Alliteration • A6 – Voice sounds • A7 – Oral blending and segmenting.
Phase 2 • Set 1: s, a, t, p • Set 2: i, n, m, d • Set 3: g, o, c, k • Set 4: ck, e, u, r • Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss
CVC words: Which of these are CVC words? p i g s h e e p s h i p c a r b o y c o w f i l l w h i p s o n g f o r d a y m i s s w h i z z h u f f
CVC words: p i g sheep s h i p c a r X b o y Xc o w X f i l l w h i p s o n g f o r X d a y Xm i s s w h i z z huff
Examples of: CCVC, CVCC, CCCVC and CCVCC b l a c k s t r o n g f e l t b l a n k s p o o n c r i e d n e s t
Examples of: CCVC, CVCC, CCCVC and CCVCC b l a c k s t r o n g c c v c c c c v c f e l t b l a n k c v c c c c v c c s p o o n c r i e d c c v c c c v c n e s t c v c c
Phase 3 • Set 6: j, v, w, x • Set 7: y, z, zz, qu • Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng • Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er
Phase 4 • This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases.
Phase 5 • Children will be taught new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes. • Developing automaticity (A child can read words with 100% accuracy, but if those words are not read rapidly enough to get a complete thought in working memory within the 10 second constraint, comprehension will be difficult). • Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au • Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e
Phase 6 • The focus is on learning spelling rules for suffixes. -s -es -ing -ed -er -est -y -en -ful -ly -ment -ness
Segmenting • Breaking down words for spelling. cat c a t
Segmenting Queen qu ee n
Blending Building words from phonemes to read. c a t cat
Blending Qu ee n queen
YEAR 1 PHONICS TEST Pass score 32 out of 40 Retake at the end of year 2. Read a mixture of real and pseudo words.
Resources www.phonicsplay.co.uk – some games are free. Pocket Phonics - £1.99 at the app store. It goes through all the phases and segments and blends.
SOME ACTIVITIES… Courgettes – adding –ed sheet. Cauliflowers – Sentences board game. Leeks – Split digraph dice game. Peppers – phoneme spotting. Onions – IPads – pocket phonics