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PHONICS FOR PARENTS
Miss Lee & Miss Newton
November 2015
Being able to read is the most important skill
children will learn during their early
schooling and has far- reaching implications
for life long confidence and well- being.
(‘Letters and Sounds’ Principles and Practice
of High Quality Phonics)
WHAT IS PHONICS?
Phonics is the link between letters and the
sounds they make. Using a highly structured
programme working through 6 progressive
phases, children are taught:
 The full range of common letter/ sound
correspondences.
 To hear separate sounds within words.
 To blend sounds together.
Although there are 26 letters in the English
alphabet, there are more than 40 speech
sounds.
USEFUL TERMINOLOGY
o
o
o
Phoneme
Smallest unit of sound in
a word
o
(Phone/sound as good way
to remember)
o
Sound out CVC words on fingers
Show sound buttons e.g. chip
CVCs – more than just 3 letter
words e.g. sheep
Words to practise counting
sounds: bright, speed, slight,
broom, crayon
Sound stamp and jump some
words together
Grapheme
Written representation of
o
a phoneme
o
(graph/picture as good
way to remember)
Write graphemes e.g. s, sh, ai
GPC = grapheme phoneme
correspondence
Blending
Putting sounds together
to hear/read word
o
Skill for reading
Segmenting
Breaking words down to
say sounds in word in
order to spell
o
Skill for spelling
USEFUL TERMINOLOGY
o
Digraph
2 letters that make one
sound
Trigraph
3 letters that make one
sound
Split digraph
2 letters that make one
sound but are not next
to each other
o
Which are digraphs? br, sh, th, cl,
ng
Br, cl, nk etc no longer ‘blends’ but
‘adjacent consonants’
o
E.g. igh, air, ear
o
You may know this as ‘magic e’
which is okay to use with your
child as long as they understand
why; however, in school they will
be taught ‘split digraph’.
Show example using cards of how
the digraphs split but still say the
same sound ee, ie, oe, ue (a_e
doesn’t work in same way but is
taught last and children
understand concept of others!)
o
PHASE 1
7 ASPECTS
Aspect 1: General sound discrimination –
environmental sounds
 Aspect 2: General sound discrimination –
instrumental sounds
 Aspect 3: General sound discrimination –
body percussion
 Aspect 4: Rhythm and rhyme
 Aspect 5: Alliteration
 Aspect 6: Voice sounds
 Aspect 7: Oral blending and segmenting

PHASE 2


24 new sounds
s
a
t
p
i
n
m
d
g
o
c
k
ck
e
u
r
h
b
f
ff
l
ll
ss
5 tricky words
the
to
I
no
go
PHASE 3

26 new sounds
j
v
w
x
y
z/zz
qu
ch
sh
th/th
ng
ai
ee
igh
oa
oo/oo
ar
or
ur
ow
oi
ear
air
ure
er
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s&safe=active
PHASE 3

12 tricky words
he
she
we
me
be
was
my
you
her
they
all
are
PHASE 4
No new sounds.
 Extension of Phase 3.
 Introduces adjacent consonants e.g. br, spl.

broom
splash
PHASE 4

14 tricky words
some
one
said
what
do
were
have
out
like
so
when
there
little
come
It iz tiem too gow hoam sed v
kator pilla. But ie doat wont
2 gow howm sed th butt or
flie. Iy wot to staiy heyr.
It is time to go home said the
kator pilla. But I dont want
to go home said the butter
fligh. I want to stay here.
PHASE 5

17 new sounds
ay
ou
ie
ir
ea
aw
wh
ph
ew
ue
oe
au
i-e
o-e
e-e
u-e
a-e
HOW CAN YOU HELP AT HOME?
Encourage children to sound out words in the
environment e.g. road signs
 Read with your child daily
 Read to your child daily
 Complete phonics homework
 Spelling homework – linked to phonics
 Play word games e.g. children’s scrabble, boggle,
phonics dominoes
 Early Learning Centre and Fun Learning have
lots of phonic based games

PHONICS IN THE ENVIRONMENT
SOME INTERACTIVE GAMES
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
 http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html
 www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/alphablockswatch
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Thank you for coming!
Your child will be given a Phonics for
Parent Booklet tomorrow/ today.