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Holy Trinity CE Primary School Serving the Tottenham Community Phonics in the EYFS March 2014

Holy Trinity CE Primary School Serving the Tottenham Community Phonics in the EYFS March 2014. What is Phonics?.

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Holy Trinity CE Primary School Serving the Tottenham Community Phonics in the EYFS March 2014

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  1. Holy Trinity CE Primary SchoolServing the Tottenham CommunityPhonics in the EYFSMarch 2014

  2. What is Phonics? There has been a huge shift in the past few years in how we teach reading in UK schools. This is having a big impact and helping many children learn to read and spell. Phonics is recommended as the first strategy that children should be taught in helping them learn to read and write. It runs alongside other teaching methods such as Guided Reading and Shared Reading to help children develop all the other vital reading skills and hopefully give them a real love of reading and writing.

  3. English Language The English language is made up of: 44 sounds, Represented by 26 letters, In about 140 combinations.

  4. Key principles Sounds are represented by letters. A sound can be represented by one letter or by a group of 2 or more letters. e.g. sh, igh, ea. The same sound can be spelt in more than one way. e.g. cat, kennel, sack The same spelling may represent more than one sound. Mean – deaf Crown – flown Field – tie

  5. The 44 Sounds

  6. Skills used in phonics Blending for reading Merging sounds together to read a word. In order to read an unfamiliar word, a child must link a sound to each letter or letter group in a word and then merge them together to say the word. c – a – t = cat sh – o – p = shop t– ai – l = tail

  7. Segmenting for spelling Hearing the sounds within a word. E.g. The word ‘fish’ has three sounds -f – i - sh In order to spell a word a child must segment a word into the individual sounds and choose a letter or letter combination to represent the sounds. For example a child may write: ‘The cat was blak. It had a wiet tayl and a pinc noas.’ It is important that children understand that blending and segmenting are reversible.

  8. Letters and Sounds ‘Letters and Sounds’ is a very straightforward document in which the programme for teaching children to read is set out in six phases.

  9. Phase 1 – Nursery Class This phase is to prepare children for formal phonics. - Exploring and experimenting with sounds and words. - Distinguishing between sounds in the environment and letter sounds. - Showing an awareness of rhyme and alliteration. - Discriminating speech sounds in words. • Beginning to orally blend and segment phonemes. http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/SoundStimuli.html

  10. Phase 2, 3 and 4 – Reception Class • Phase 2 – knowledge of common consonants and vowels, blending and segmenting CVC words (cat, dog, box, pig, den) Learning to read some tricky words. • Phase 3 – Knowledge of the letters for each of the 44 sounds, blending and segementing words. Learning to read and spell tricky words. • Phase 4 – Blending and segmenting previously learnt letters. Revision phase. http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PictureMatch.html http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html

  11. Phases 5 and 6 Phase 5 and phase 6 are taught throughout KS1. Children no longer have regular phonics lessons in KS2 unless they require it. All children learn at different rates so may be on different phases at different times. Some children in Nursery might be ready for phase 2 whilst some children in Reception might still be working in Phase 1 or might be ready to start Phase 5!

  12. High frequency and tricky words Not all words follow the rules! We also need to teach “tricky” words. These are not segmented but taught as whole words, recognised on sight. Eg: was, you, her, they, are, all, the, little, said, there, when, what, have, like

  13. Practise our sounds Careful pronunciation of sounds is very important to ensure we are good language models to children. Sounds should be pronounced softly and in a clipped, short manner. Otherwise: c-a-t becomes cur- a -tur

  14. VC and CVC Words • C = consonant, V = vowel • VC words are those consisting of a vowel and then a consonant, eg: at, in, up • CVC words follow the pattern consonant, vowel, consonant, eg: cat, dog, pet • Words such as tick orbellalso count as CVC words; although they contain four letters, they only have three sounds

  15. What can you do at home? Phase 1: Provide your child with lots of different opportunities to speak and listen with others: - Preparing meals - Tidying up - Putting shopping away - Getting ready to go out - Switch off the TV, radio and mobile phones! - Show you are interested in their conversation - Read stories and lots of them! - Use puppets and toys that stimulate talk.

  16. Phase 2, 3 and 4 • Display an alphabet poster or chart in your home. • Sing alphabet / phonics songs together. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saF3-f0XWAY • Play ‘I spy’. • - Magnetic letters on the fridge. • - A set of Flashcards of sounds for using in games. • Good quality story books and non-fiction books. Frequent reading is essential!

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