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Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP)

Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP). An Introduction. What is reading?. Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon the page: it is a quest for meaning and one that requires the reader to be an active participant. English for Ages 5-16 (The Cox Report, 1989).

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Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP)

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  1. Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) An Introduction Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  2. What is reading? Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon the page: it is a quest for meaning and one that requires the reader to be an active participant. English for Ages 5-16 (The Cox Report, 1989) Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  3. Phonics: the most straightforward part of English • It is self-contained (discrete). • It is clearly structured (systematic) • It is supported by a scheme – providing the content, progression, assessment tools and ideas. • There is a wealth of resources to help. • It is skills based. Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  4. Phonics: what makes it seem difficult. • The new technical vocabulary. • It is a skill you as a reader do not use consciously. • The current focus and emphasis on phonics. • The use of a scheme. Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  5. What matters for the children • Their phonic input matches their needs. • The skills they learn in the discrete phonics sessions are applied when they read and write. • There is not a linear approach to learning to read – those children still tackling decoding can also demonstrate more advanced reading skills. • Any focus on phonics is balanced by the rest of the English / literacy curriculum. Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  6. Some Key Statements to Understand • There are around 44 phonemes in the English language. • Letters are symbols (graphemes), which represent the sounds (phonemes) in words. A phoneme can be represented by a grapheme made up of one or more letters: c/a/t, k/ee/p, h/igh, th/r/ough. • A phoneme can be spelt in more than one way. So one sound can have different representations: day, great, make, paper. • Some graphemes represent more than one phoneme. So one spelling but more than one sound: bread, bead, steak. • You need to teach the skill of blending the phonemes together in a word in order to be able to decode it. • c-a-t cat. • You need to teach the skill of segmenting each phoneme in a word in order to be able to spell it. • cat c-a-t. Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  7. + Good language comprehension, poor word recognition Good word recognition, good language comprehension Word recognition + - Poor word recognition, poor language comprehension Good word recognition, poor language comprehension - Language comprehension Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  8. Some key terms to know • Phoneme: smallest unit of sound • Grapheme: symbol which represents the phoneme • GPCs: grapheme-phoneme correspondences • Digraph • Trigraph • Adjacent consonants /consonant cluster • Blending for reading • Segmenting for spelling Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  9. Indicating phonemes: sound buttons ca t Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  10. Indicating the phonemes: phoneme frame Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  11. Indicating phonemes: sound buttons dog Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  12. Indicating phonemes: sound buttons st r u t Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  13. Indicating phonemes: sound buttons cha t Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  14. Indicating phonemes: sound buttons church Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  15. Indicating phonemes: sound buttons s c r u n ch Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  16. Indicating phonemes h igh Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  17. Making the long ‘a’ phoneme Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  18. Making the long ‘a’ phoneme Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  19. Some key terms to know • Phoneme: smallest unit of sound • Grapheme: symbol which represents the phoneme • GPCs: grapheme-phoneme correspondences • Digraph • Trigraph • Adjacent consonants /consonant cluster • Blending for reading • Segmenting for spelling Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  20. Key phonic knowledge • A phoneme can be represented by one or more letters • The same phoneme can be represented in more than one way. • The same spelling may represent more than one phoneme. • A grapheme is the representation of the phoneme – so may be more than one letter. Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

  21. Reading for pleasure and for life http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/resources/videos/3858_reading_for_life_not_for_tests Justine Earl Canterbury Christ Church University

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