Letters and Sounds Parent Workshop

1. Letters and Sounds Parent Workshop

2. Letters and Sounds • Structured programme • Six phases • Fast pace, lots of consolidation • Blending for reading • Segmenting for writing • Tricky words

3. Phase 1 • Speaking and listening are vital skills children need to develop in order to live successful lives in society. • They are key skills for children developing their ability to read and write.

4. Phase 1- what does this look like in school? Sound games- hear and recognise the sounds- animal, everyday sounds. Following a beat. Listening and playing musical instruments. Exciting role play areas. Sound walk around school/local environment. Body percussion Explore sounds different objects make.

5. Phase 2 • Learning specific letters and sounds • Reading tricky words: I go no to the • Blending and segmenting vc and cvc words, and in captions and sentences

6. Phase 2- what does this look like in school? 20 minutes daily phonics lesson We use Jolly phonics to introduce new sounds. - Children learn actions and songs to help them remember the sounds. Sorting objects that begin with different sounds IWB games Sound bingo Sound hunt Phonics puzzles and games • Practising letter formation through; • Painting letters • Forming letters in the sand • Writing letters in the air • Paintbrush and water • Chalk Flashcards Letter fans Magnetic letters

7. Sounds covered in phase 2 • s a t p • i n m d • g o c k • Ck e u r • H b f,ff l,ll ss

8. How does it sound? A useful website • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwJx1NSineE&feature=related

9. Phase 3 • All other sounds are taught. • Alphabet names are important to describe the sounds made by more than one letter • More tricky words for reading • Writing I go no to the • Blending, segmenting, reading, writing words, captions and sentences

10. Phase 3- what does this look like in school? 20 minutes daily phonics lesson Tricky word bingo Sentence building Writing simple cvc and cvcc words using; -chalk -Whiteboards and pens -Different writing materials. IWB games Reading simple captions Phonics games- Buried treasure

11. Sounds covered in phase 3 Letters J,v,w,x Y,z,zzqu Graphemes ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er

12. Phase 4 • Adjacent consonants introduced • cvcc words – ten-t mil-k jum-p • ccvc words – d-rum p-lop s-poon • Ccvcc words – s-pan-k • Further tricky words introduced eg said, have, like, so. Along with decodable words such as: went, from, just.

13. Phase 4- what does this look like in school? 20 minutes daily phonics lesson IWB Games Reading/ Speaking Robot Talk word/ sentence cards Writing ccvc and cvcc words Pens/ paper Whiteboards Phoneme FramesPhonics games: Buried Treasure Countdown Bingo Loop Cards

14. Phonics Play: A useful website http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk

15. Phase 5 • Phase Five runs throughout most of Year One. • New Graphemes for reading. Eg: ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ue, ir, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, ey, a-e, e-e, i-e o-e u-e. • Alternative pronunciations of known graphemes. Eg: a as in hat, bacon, path, was. • Alternative spellings for each phoneme. Eg: picture and catch or listen and house.

16. Phase 5- what does this look like in school? 2o Minute Phonics lesson Phonics skills practised in guided reading and IWB Games writing lessons Phonics Games Spellings to learn at home Sentence Substitution Phoneme Spotter

17. Kent ICT Games: A useful website http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/kentict/content/games/literacy_menu.html

18. Phonics Screening Check • At the end of Year One all children take part in the national phonics screening check. • The check takes place in the Summer Term and parents will be informed of the date nearer the time. • The check requires children to be able to use all of the sounds learnt up to Phase 5. • The check uses real and pseudo words to assess children's ability to decode. • The results are fed back to parents in the end of year report.

19. Phase 6 • Children gaining independence. • Learning and practising spellings including long words. • Application of spelling in writing. • Adding suffixes. Eg: s and es, ed and ing, ful, er, est, ly, ment, ness, y. • Using a dictionary/ spell checker. • Using the past tense.

20. Phase 6 What does this look like in school? 20 minute focused Application of phonic skills phonics lesson. and of knowledge. Retell a story in the past/present tense Find compound words in a story book/ find a partner to make a Phonics Games: compound word Past tense plurals writing silly sentences ICT/IWB Games Act out the adverb Words Earache Spellings to learn at home/ spelling dictation Joined up writing beginning with digraphs and high frequency words.

21. A New Vocabulary! • Phonics – the learning of letters and sounds • Phoneme–the sound a letter makes • Grapheme– the written letter • Blending – running sounds together to make a word • Segmenting – breaking a word up into its component sounds • Tricky words – words that cannot be decoded using phonics • cvc – c = consonant (b/c/d/f), v = vowel (a/e/ee) • Digraph - a sound made with two letters eg. shaioi • Phonetically plausible – written phonetically that it can still be read although it is spelt incorrectly eg. torlwerkcabij

22. The most important thing to remember is to make phonics fun. If you ever need any new ideas please come and ask your child’s teacher.