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Phonics at St. Anthony’s School for Boys

Phonics at St. Anthony’s School for Boys. November 2016. Aims. To share how phonics is taught at St. Anthony’s. To develop your confidence in helping your children with phonics. To teach the basics of phonics and some useful phonic terms.

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Phonics at St. Anthony’s School for Boys

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  1. Phonics at St. Anthony’s School for Boys November 2016

  2. Aims • To share how phonics is taught at St. Anthony’s. • To develop your confidence in helping your children with phonics. • To teach the basics of phonics and some useful phonic terms. • To show examples of activities and resources we use to teach phonics in class.

  3. Synthetic Phonics • We use an approach called Synthetic Phonics. • The boys are taught to read letters or groups of letters by saying the sounds (phonemes) they represent. • They are taught that the letter __ sounds like __ when we say it. • They can then start to read words by blending (synthesising) the sounds together to make a word. • http://mrthorne.com/home/phonics/introduction/

  4. St Anthony’s Phonics Scheme • Every day the boys have a 20 minute session of phonics. • The boys learn 2 sounds a week with time for revision at the end of each term. • Each sound we teach is supported by a short alliterative sentence and an action. • Please encourage your son to learn the action to each sound.

  5. Phonics Words Phoneme: Sounds that can be heard in words. e.g. c - a – t Digraph:A phoneme compromising of two letters. e.g. ll, ff, ch, sh

  6. Enunciation • Each phoneme should be articulated clearly and precisely. • The boys are taught the pure sound. • Some are long, stretchy sounds for instance ‘n’ and ‘m’ and some are short, bouncy sounds like ‘t’ or ‘p’. • Do not add ‘uh’ on the end of the sounds. • http://mrthorne.com/home/phonics/introduction/

  7. Blending • Children need to be able to read the separate sounds in a word and then blend them together to say the whole word. b – e – d = bed t – i – n = tin

  8. Segmenting • They also need to be able to hear a word and say each sound that they hear. This is very important when it comes to writing. bed = b – e - d tin = t – i -n

  9. Blending and Segmenting Games These games can be played for both blending or segmenting practise. • The Robot Game • What’s in the Box? • Mrs Browning has a Bag

  10. Tricky / High Frequency Words • The boys learn some tricky / high frequency words each week. • Tricky words cannot be blended or segmented because they are irregular for instance, ‘the’ and ‘you’. It is important that the boys are able to recognise these words. • High frequency words are words which appear frequently in texts.

  11. How to help at home • Challenge your son to find objects that begin with a certain sound. • Play ‘I Spy’ with phonemes not letter names. • Play blending and segmenting games. • Extend rhyming strings. • Make up silly alliterative sentences. • Make words with sound cards.

  12. Phonics Videos and Games Online • Geraldine the Giraffe http://mrthorne.com/home/phonics/geraldine-the-giraffe/ • Starfall http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-a/load.htm?filter=abc • Letters and Sounds Phase 2 & 3 http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html

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