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Phonics at Crescent Primary School

Phonics at Crescent Primary School. Core Values. We believe that the way children are taught is crucial to their success in learning to read. They all need knowledge of the alphabetic code and the skills of blending sounds for reading and segmenting the spoken word for spelling.

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Phonics at Crescent Primary School

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  1. Phonics at Crescent Primary School

  2. Core Values • We believe that the way children are taught is crucial to their success in learning to read. They all need knowledge of the alphabetic code and the skills of blending sounds for reading and segmenting the spoken word for spelling.

  3. Phonics materials used…. Teachers use the Department for Education’s Letters and Sounds as the core document for phonics. It aims to build children's speaking and listening skills in their own right as well as to prepare children for learning to read by developing their phonic knowledge and skills. It sets out a detailed and systematic programme for teaching phonic skills for children starting by the age of five, with the aim of them becoming fluent readers by age seven. Alongside this teachers use interactive games from the PhonicsPlay website (www.PhonicsPlay.co.uk) and Bug Club.

  4. The terminology! oo a sh • Phoneme – the sounds that make the words. • Grapheme – the way we write the phonemes. • Diagraphs – 2 letters that make one sound. • Trigraphs– 3 letters that make one sound. • Blends – consonants that are grouped together. • Vowels – A E I O U th igh pl st thr

  5. What is taught The children follow a structured phased system of teaching: • Phase 1 (Foundation Stage 1)- focuses on hearing different sounds, environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body sounds (clapping), rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and finally oral blending and segmenting (splitting words into their sounds). • Phase 2 (6 weeks in Foundation Stage 2) - Learning 19 letters of the alphabet and one sound for each. Blending sounds together to make words. Segmenting words into their separate sounds. Beginning to read simple captions.

  6. What is taught • Phase 3 (12 weeks in Foundation stage 2) - The remaining 7 letters of the alphabet, one sound for each. Graphemes such as ch, oo, th representing the remaining phonemes not covered by single letters. Reading captions, sentences and questions. On completion of this phase, children will have learnt the "simple code", i.e. one grapheme for each phoneme in the English language. • Phase 4 ( 4 to 6 weeks in Foundation Stage) Children learn to blend and segment longer words with adjacent consonants, e.g. swim, clap, jump.

  7. What is taught • Phase 5 (throughout Year 1) - we move on to the "complex code". Children learn more graphemes for the phonemes which they already know, plus different ways of pronouncing the graphemes they already know. • Phase 6 (throughout Year 2) -Working on spelling, including prefixes and suffixes, doubling and dropping letters etc.

  8. How it is taught… • Phonics sessions are quick (15 – 20 minutes) daily lessons which start with a revisit of something the children already know, then learning and practising new skills and then applying the skills independently. • Children are taught as a whole class at the phase suitable for their age. • The children are assessed every term and any gaps in their knowledge are caught up in small group work.

  9. Supporting your child… You can support your child at home in lots of ways: • On Fronter (https://fronter.com/nottsslp/) there is a room dedicated to phonics where you can find games, rhymes, tips and advice. • Your child will get a set of phonics quiz words every week, practise the words with your child making sure they can read and spell them. • There are lots of games and activities that you can access for free on http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk and http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml and http://www.bugclub.co.uk/ (school id: sj96 – your child will have their own password)

  10. Phonics Screening At the end of Year 1 all pupils take a phonics screening this will involve: • Giving the sound when they are shown a grapheme • Blending phonemes to read words • Knowing most grapheme to phoneme correspondence • Reading phonetically decodeable 1 and 2 syllable words (real and nonsense words.) • Please do not worry that this will be stressful or upsetting for your child. The assessment is age-appropriate, with children sitting with a teacher who they know. Reading one-to-one with a teacher is a familiar activity for Year 1 pupils. It will takes no more than a few minutes.

  11. Phonics Screening • Some examples of nonsense words used: tox, bim, ulf, thimb • Some examples of real words used: slide, phone, day

  12. Phonics in Key Stage 2 • Most children are ready at the end of Key Stage 1 to move onto spelling and grammar based activities. • Those that need their phonics knowledge boosted work within small groups with a teaching assistant or teacher using a programme called Rapid Phonics.

  13. Rapid Phonics • Rapid Phonics are fast-paced sessions and quick and easy assessments that reinforce the basics of phonics in a way that children really enjoy. • The books are carefully levelled to meet the children’s needs and have age appropriate books to support the children’s learning.

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