Welcome to our phonics evening!

1. Welcome to our phonics evening!

2. Celebrate Reading! • Share your own enjoyment of reading - whatever you like to read! • Highlight reading whenever you do it. • Comparing events in stories with your own shared experiences. • Point out words, signs and logos when you go shopping, when you're out driving, when you're watching TV or cooking. • Visit the library or bookshop to explore and choose different types of books.

3. Read Everything!

4. Oxford Reading Tree

5. Other texts

6. Phonics • Letters and Sounds – Rose review • Focus on letter sounds • Keep the sounds short dog pit

7. c a t p ee d p sh i ch ur ch

8. Technical words! • Phoneme - The smallest unit of speech – a single sound in a word. • Grapheme -The written symbol that represents a sound. • Digraph - two letters that make one sound • Trigraph - three letters that make one sound • Encoding – (segmenting) Encoding involves listening for the sounds and deciding which letters represent those phonemes. • Decoding - The process of decoding a word has two stages. Firstly the individual grapheme-phoneme correspondence is recognised and then the phonemes are blended into the word as it is read.

9. High Frequency Words • We need to learn to recognise these words without sounding them out. we the and it but I

10. Tricky Words • These words cannot be sounded out. we was she go said people

11. Before you read a book: • Talk about the title, author and illustrator. • Read the blurb. • Look through the pictures together. • Discuss what you think the story might be about. • Will it be a story or an information book? • Have you ever read a book like this before? • Do you recognise any of the characters?

12. While reading with your child: • Point to the words as you read them. • Give them time to think but then help them when they get stuck. • Talk about the illustrations on each page. • Ask some questions to encourage them to think about what they are reading.

13. Some useful questions • What is happening on this page? • What do you think might happen next? • How do you think they are feeling? • Which is your favourite bit? • Can you find Floppy's name on this page? • Can you find something in the picture that starts with a 's'? • Has that ever happened to you?