Aims • To share information about how phonics is taught at Cotham Gardens. • To discuss the basics of phonics and some useful phonics terms. • To share ways in which you can support your child with phonics. • To talk more broadly about learning to read.
Bo Book ba k bags gs • Reading record, book, tricky word book. • Bring book bag to school every day. • Voluntary contribution to re-invest in books. • Thank you to PTAF for their on-going support with our reading programme.
Phonics cs is a a wa way of teachi hing childr dren n to read d quickly kly and sk d skilfully ly. Learning phonics will help your child to decode words for reading and spell for writing. Children are taught to recognise the sounds that individual letters make; the sounds that different combinations of letters make; and blending these sounds together from left to right to read whole words.
Every child in reception and KS1 receives a daily phonics lesson. We use all the adults in the year groups to teach in small groups. Your child will work will work with a range of adults over the year. Phonics helps children with writing as well as reading. As they move through KS1 and into year 3 the focus shifts onto spelling and grammar.
Th The da daily ph phonics s lesson • Fast paced. • Lots of games, songs and rhymes. • We follow the ‘Letters and Sounds’ planning document but also use some resources and strategies from the ‘Read Write Inc’ programme. • There are 6 phonics phases which the children work through at their own pace. • We group the children so that they are working with children at a similar stage.
Phonic terms your child will learn at school Pho honeme me A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word. It is generally accepted that most varieties of spoken English use about 44 phonemes. Graphemes es A grapheme is a symbol of a phoneme. It is a letter or group of letters representing a sound. We don’t use this term with the children at Colston’s .
Phonic terms your child will learn at school Seg egme menti nting ng an and ble lendin ing Segmenting consists of breaking words down into phonemes to spell. Blending consists of building words from phonemes to read. Both skills are important.
Phonic terms your child will learn at school Digrap raph This is when two letters come together to make a phoneme. For example, /oa / makes the sound in ‘boat’ and is also known as a vow owel l digraph. aph. There are also co cons nson onant nt d digra raphs phs, for example, /sh/ and /ch/. Trigra graph ph This is when three letters come together to make one phoneme, for example /igh/. Split it digrap aph A digraph in which the two letters are not adjacent – e.g. make e
Phase 1: Getting ready for phonics 1. Tuning ning into to so sounds ds 2. List stening ning and rememb mbering ring so sounds ds 3. Talking ing abou out t so sounds ds Music and movement Rhythm and rhyme Sound effects Speaking and listening skills
Phase 2: Learning phonemes to read and write simple words s a t p i n m d g o c k ck (as in duck) e u r h b l f ff (as in puff) ll (as in hill) ss (as in hiss) Th They ey wi will ll use e thes ese e phoneme emes s to rea ead an and spel ell l simple “consonant -vowel vowel- consonant” (CVC) wo words: : sat, tap, duck, rug, puff, hill, hiss All ll thes ese e wo words ds co contain ain 3 p 3 phonem emes es.
Phase 3: Learning the long vowel phonemes • j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu • ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er • They will use these phonemes (and the ones from Phase 2) to read and spell words such as: chip, shop, thin, ring, pain, feet, night, boat, boot, look, farm, fork, town, coin, dear, fair, sure
Phase 4: Introducing consonant clusters: reading and spelling words with four or more phonemes • No new phonemes. • Focus on reading and spelling longer words with the phonemes they already know. • These words have conso sonant ant clu lusters sters at the beginning: sp spot, t, trip ip, , cla lap, , gree een, n, clo lown, wn, st street eet …or at the end: ten ent, t, men end, d, da damp, , bu burnt …or at the beginning and end! trust, ust, sp spen end, d, twi wist st
Phase 5 • Mor ore ne new phon onemes mes • ay, ou ou, i ie, ea, oy oy, i ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe oe, au, a-e, , e-e, i-e, , o-e, u-e Learn n alter erna native tive pron onunc nciatio tions ns of of gr graphem hemes es (the e same writt tten en graphem heme e ca can r n represen esent mor ore than one n one ph phon oneme/s e/sou ound nd): ): Fin/ n/find nd, , h hot/cold, d, cat/cent nt, got ot/gian iant, , b but/put, t, cow ow/blow ow, , tie ie/f /fie ield ld, , ea eat/br brea ead, d, f farmer er/h /her er, , hat/wh what, , yes/by/ver /very, ch chin/ n/sch choo ool/ l/ch chef, ef, ou out/shou ould lder/ er/cou ould ld/y /you ou. .
Phase 6 • Phase 6 focuses on spellings and learning rules for spelling alternatives. • Children learn about past tense; rules for adding suffixes and prefixes; irregular verbs • ‘tion’ and ‘sion’ words • They will also begin to focus much more on spelling strategies.
Saying the sounds • Try not to use letter names. • Pronounce the sounds clearly and precisely. • Some sounds are ‘stretchy’ and some sounds are ‘bouncy’. Eg say ‘ mmmmm ’ not ‘ muh ’ Link to sound pronunication guide.
Tricky Words There are many words that cannot be blended or segmented because they are irregular. the wa was sa said id you some me
Tricky word book Children need to be able to: read all the tricky words by sight and nd learn to spell them accurately too.
Split digraphs tie ie time toe oe tone cue ue cube pie pine
Year 1 phonics screening test • All year 1 children have to take the test in June. • 1:1 test – the actual test is not at all terrifying, in fact the children enjoy the challenge. • Combination of real and nonsense words. • The pass mark is usually 32/40. • Children that don’t pass have to retake in year 2.
Year 1 Phonics Test
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How can I help at home? • Look out for your child’s perso rsonalised nalised pho honeme eme targets rgets. • Th These wi will be be upd pdated ed at least twi wice pe per term. • Please se supp pport your child d to re recogn gnise se these e sounds ds by sigh ght, , and d also to sp spot them wi within wo words ds.
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How can I help at home? • Read d wi with your child d at least three times a we week k and pr d preferably ably every da day. • We We wi will check k the book k bags gs every da day and ch d change ge the book k if there is a a comment in th the readi ding record. d. • Co Come and re d read d in sc school!
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Please remember… Phonics is just a tool to help children learn to read quickly and efficiently. The aim is to equip children with the skills to access books and develop a love of reading.
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