Phonics in Reception

Phonics in Reception

Phonics Workshop How Phonics Work

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Read, Write Inc. Resources • Letter formation model. • Flash cards. • Decodable word/flash cards. • Tricky word flash cards. • Complex Speed Sound Chart.

Phonics Workshop Glossary • CVC: Stands for consonant, vowel, consonant. • Decode: Analyse the word and look at the sounds. • Segmenting: is breaking up a word into its sounds. • Blending : Putting the sounds together to read a word • Phonemes: The smallest units of sound that are found within a word. • Grapheme: The spelling of the sound e.g. Th • Digraph: Two letters that make one sound when read • Consonant: contains two consonants next to each other, but they make a single sound. • e.g. sh, ck, th, ll • Vowel: contains at least one vowel but the two letters still make a single sound • e.g. aieearoy • Split: a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e • These letters don’t get on very well and need another letter to separate them. • Trigraphs: Three letters that make one sound • Tricky words/High Freqeuncy words: Words that cannot easily be decoded.

Decoding Strategies used at school • Sound chop, • Sound march, • Robot dance, • Sound talk, • Placing Sound buttons underneath the words,

Phase 1:Getting ready for phonics 1. Tuning into sounds 2. Listening and remembering sounds 3. Talking about sounds Music and movement Rhythm and rhyme Sound effects Speaking and listening skills

Phase 2:Learning phonemes to read and write simple words • Children will learn their first 19 phonemes: Set 1: s a t p Set 2: i n m d Set 3: g o c k Set 4:ck (as in duck) e u r Set 5: h b l f ff (as in puff) ll (as in hill) ss (as in hiss) • They will use these phonemes to read and spell simple “consonant-vowel-consonant” (CVC) words: sat, tap, dig, duck, rug, puff, hill, hiss All these words contain 3 phonemes.

Phonics Workshop Let’s have fun c a t ___ . . .

Green Words (de-codable) Use a strategy and have a go!

Phase 3:Learning the long vowel phonemes • Children will enter phase 3 once they know the first 19 phonemes and can blend and segment to read and spell CVC words. • They will learn another 26 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: chip, shop, thin, ring, pain, feet, night, boat, boot, look, farm, fork, burn, town, coin, dear, fair, sure

Phonics Workshop Let’s have fun The diagraph buzz __ ____ . . A consonant digraph contains two consonants shckthll A vowel digraph contains at least one vowel aieear oy

Phonics Workshop Let’s have fun The triagraph light ____ ___ . . ighear

Phonics Workshop Let’s have fun The split diagraph i_e a_e o_e u_e e_e tide . .

Tricky Words There are many words that cannot be blended or segmented because they are irregular. the was said you some

Red Words

Phonics Workshop • Games: • Go on a sound hunt – find objects in the house with the weekly sounds they are learning. • Practice reading the sounds in a mirror – look at the shape of the mouth. • Write words with the sounds. • Bingo • Draw or paint the letter or objects with the sound. • Letter formation with playdough, in cornflour or foamy soap • Sound treasure hunts • Look for the sounds in words in books. • Alien word games • Create rhyming strings (sentences containing words with the same sounds in) • Pair the picture to the sound. • Make a scrap sound book for these sounds. • Practice your cursive writing on a whiteboard or use a stylus on a tablet

Phonics Workshop Useful Websites: http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/ http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.htmlhttp://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ http://www.familylearning.org.uk/phonics_games.html http://ictgames.com/writingRepeater/index.html http://www.alphablocks.tv/

Phonics in Reception