Phonics at Carnarvon

1. Phonics at Carnarvon The Phases How we teach Phonics How we assess Phonics Spelling books Any questions

2. We teach reading in different ways.. • Individual 1:1 reading • Guided group reading • Phonics sessions • In curriculum work • Text around the classroom • Reading to the children including enlarged texts Using different strategies... • Whole word • Phonetic application • Context

3. Phonics Consists of: • Identifying sounds in spoken words • Recognising the common spellings of each • Blending phonemes into words for reading. • Segmenting words into phonemes for spelling.

4. 5 Phases • Phase 1; listening to and making sounds • Phase 2; some initial alphabet sounds • Phase 3: the remaining alphabet sounds plus vowel diagraphs and triagraphs (44 altogether) • Phase 4: blending consonants • Phase 5; Knowing one sound can be represented in writing in more than one way – the vowel phoneme families

5. Pure sounds... http://phonicbooks.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/ how-to-say-the-sounds-of-letters-in-synthetic-phonics/

6. A phoneme is what you hear... This is the smallest unit of sound in a word. How many phonemes can you hear in cat step fish

7. A grapheme is what we see... • These are the letters that represent the phoneme. • The grapheme could be 1 letter, 2 letters or more! t ai igh

8. A word always has the same number of phonemes and graphemes but not necessarily the same number of letters night= 3phonemes/ 3 graphemes/ 5letters

9. How we teach... • 15 minutes daily • Grouped according to individual needs • Pacey session using different activities

10. How we assess... • Within the phonics session by observing • Looking for how children are applying what they have learnt in phonics into their writing and reading. • At the end of every half term formally • At the end of Year 1 as part of national assessment

11. Spelling books... • 5 personalised spellings in the spelling book each week • Working through the word lists in each phonics phase • Look, cover, spell, check