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Phonics: Understanding and Supporting Reading Skills

Discover what phonics is, why it is taught, and how it can be taught effectively. Learn how you can support your child's phonics learning at home through games, reading phonics books, and more.

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Phonics: Understanding and Supporting Reading Skills

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  1. This evening.... • What is phonics? • Why do we teach phonics? • How do we teach phonics? • How can you support at home?

  2. What is Phonics? Phonics is Skills of segmentation and blending Knowledgeof the alphabetic code +

  3. Some definitions: Aphoneme This is the smallest unit of sound in a word A phoneme you hear

  4. Blending Recognising the letter sounds in a written wordand merging them in the order in which they are written.

  5. Blending is Important for Reading cup cat pin

  6. More definitions: A grapheme These are letters that represent the phoneme You can see a grapheme. It can be one letter, two letters or more

  7. Segmenting Identifying the individual sounds (phonemes) in a spoken word (e.g. h-i-m) and writing down letters (graphemes) for each sound to form the word ‘him’

  8. Segmenting is important for spelling.Time for you to play a game!

  9. Why do we teach phonics? 26 letters in the alphabet 44 sounds (phonemes)

  10. Sounds can be represented by more than one letter sh ck th ai ee ear

  11. ai train day plane

  12. The same spelling may represent more than onesound bread steak peach

  13. ch sh th ng ai ee igh oa oo oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er

  14. Pure Sounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlTw0oiLNys

  15. Your child will have: • A phonics lesson every day • Support with their reading • Support with their writing

  16. How can you support at home? • Look at signs and labels. • Key Ring • Reading for pleasure and enjoyment • Reading phonic books

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