Phonics Workshop Our Approach to Reading at Priory Rise

1. Phonics WorkshopOur Approach to Reading at Priory Rise

2. Overview • Sounds-Write programme • Sight recognition – for some words which cannot be written phonetically e.g. the, are, was • Exposure to a wide range of texts – understanding of story and how different texts work – guided reading, literacy lessons • Developing a love of literature and reading

3. Key Principles of Phonics Approach • All sounds are represented by symbols that we call letters • Some sounds are represented by one letter e.g. <j>, <n>, <w>, some by two letters such as <ck>, <ch> <ay>, some by three letters such as <ere>, <air> • Sounds may be represented (spelled) in more that one way e.g ‘ae’ as in ‘Rachel’, ‘playing’, ‘they’ and ‘ie’ and as in ‘I’ and ‘buy’ • Teaching whole words, not teaching sounds in isolation –teaching the children using complete words gives them meaning and a context in which to place their learning. Asking children to learn the sound ‘c’ in isolation is meaningless to them • Children are taught to read and write the words at the same time

4. Key Skills • Segmenting – The children learn to segment the individual sounds to write and spell words eg ‘sat’ is split into it’s three sounds ‘s’.... ‘a’.... ‘t’ • Blending – The children learn to blend individual sounds to read words eg. ‘v’ ‘e’ ‘t’ is blended into the word ‘vet’ • Phoneme manipulation – The children manipulate the individual sounds within words so one sound can be replaced by another e.g. mat – sat – sit – it - am

5. Progression • Initial code – the children are taught the skills to segment, blend and manipulate sounds in words • Extended code – the children learn that sounds can be spelled in more than one way e.g. the sound ‘ae’ can be spelled <a>, <ai>, <ea>, <a-e>, <eigh>, etc • Polysyllabic words (2 - 6 syllable words) – the children learn to blend and segment polysyllabic words • Suffixes, prefixes – The children learn to spell words containing the suffix eg. mixture <-ture> and the prefix e.g. antibiotic <anti>

6. Resources • Whiteboards and pens • Magnetic letters and boards • Phonic reading scheme • Post its • Flip flaps • Phonic bones

7. Using the Internet Espresso has lots of games that you can access at home Phoneme flop is a fun game http://www.ictgames.com/phonemeFlop_v4.html

8. A Typical Lesson • Word-building • Symbol Search • Sound Swap • Reading and Spelling Words

9. Word Building Lesson