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Phonics and Spelling
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Workshop Agenda
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Explaining ‘teacher speak’
Introducing a phoneme- a demonstration
Keywords
Digraphs
Phonics Check Year 1
Reading Scheme
Helping at Home
Questions
Phonics is
Skills of
segmentation
and blending
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Knowledge of
the alphabetic
code
The terminology!
Phoneme: a sound in a word
- consonant phonemes
- vowel phonemes
Grapheme: a letter or sequence of letters
that represent a phoneme
2 letters – digraph
3 letters – trigraph
4 letters - ???graph
Playing with Sounds pg 14 -15
Letters and Sounds
Phonic Phases 1-6
Phase 1- sound discrimination, oral blending and segmenting,
rhyme and alliteration
Phase 2- GPC (grapheme/ phoneme correspondence), tricky words
Phase 3- GPC (grapheme/ phoneme correspondence), tricky words
Phase 4- Recapping and tricky words (reading and some spelling)
Phase 5- New graphemes for reading, alternatives, tricky words
Phase 6- Spelling rules
A word on pronunciation
• Pronounce most consonants in a
continuous manner;
• /c/, /t/, /p/ should be whispered
• Reduce the extra ‘uh’ sound on /b/,
/d/, /g/ as much as possible.
• Have a go!
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeInd
ex.htm
Skills
Segmenting means hearing the
individual phonemes within
a word – for instance the word ‘crash’
consists of four phonemes:
‘c – r – a – sh’. In order to spell this
word, a child must segment it into its
component phonemes and choose a
grapheme to represent each phoneme.
‘Robot speak’.
Skills
Blending means merging the
individual phonemes together to
pronounce a word. In order to read an
unfamiliar word, a child must
recognise (‘sound out’) each
grapheme, not each letter (e.g. ‘th-i-n’
not ‘t-h-i-n’), and then merge the
phonemes together to make the word.
Playing with Sounds pg 16
Explaining
Digraphs
• a phoneme can be represented by
one or more letters sh, th, ee
• the same phoneme can be represented in
more than one way
rain, may, lake
• the same spelling may represent more
than one phoneme
mean, deaf
Vowel Phonemes
Most vowel phonemes have two or
more grapheme representations:
pain
day
station
gate
The Split Digraph
t
i
e
m
t
i
m
e
Learning Phonics in Chestnut
• Teaching phases 2, 3 & 4
• Phonics Bug
• Jolly Phonics
• British Council alphabet song
Learning Phonics in Willow
• Teaching 5 & 6
• Phonicsplay
• Letters and sounds games (quickwrite,
phoneme frame, sound buttons)
•Why learn tricky words?
•Keyword sets in Reception (lists and sound
buttons)
•Keywords in Years 1 and 2- spelling tests
•Children are assessed termly in school.
• Phonics check at end of Year 1
• Designed to assess the children’s ability to blend
words
• Comprises of 40 words- 20 pseudo words and 20
real words
• Children either meet expected standard or do not
• Sounds and tricky words in Reception
• Homework in Year 1 and 2
• Websites and the ipad revolution!
Hairy letters app for ipad
Mr Thorne Does Phonics app for ipad
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/alphablocks/
•Phonic Readers
• Coloured Reading Scheme
• Free Readers