Phonics

Chawson First School

October 2012

Aims

to become familiar with the phonics teaching at school

Some ideas on how you can support your child at home

Foundation Stage Profile

The Foundation Stage Profile (FSP) is split up into 7 prime areas:

• Communication and Language(CL)• Physical Development (PD)• Personal, Social and Emotional (PSE)• Literacy (L)• Mathematics (M)• Understanding of the World (UOW)• Expressive arts and design(EAD)

Letters and Sounds

There are 6 phases which span Reception to end of Year 2.

By then most children will be confident readers and writers.

There will be daily whole class activities in Reception alongside small group work

Before the children joined us

Phase 1-paves the way for systematic phonics

Activities that are planned help children listen and distinguish between sounds and hear the sounds in words.

Important words that your children will be usingphoneme - ‘sound’

grapheme – the way you write the sound

digraph- A combination of two graphemes (letters) representing one phoneme (sound) e.g. sh/ch

trigraph- a combination of three letters representing one phoneme e.g. igh/ear

segment – split the word into its sounds to spell it

blend – say all the sounds in a word quickly to read the word

Sound talk

All oral !No letters !

Many of the children will have used sound talk in Pre school and it is still

very important.Often the children will use robot arms

too.

d/o/g sh/e/ll t/or/ch

‘I spy a p-e-g – peg’

‘I spy a c-u-p – cup’

‘Where’s your other s-o-ck – sock?’

You could ... play I spy...

In Year R children will learn which letter/letters make a sound.

Jolly phonics is used to give actions.

They will bring home a sheet each time they learn a new phoneme and grapheme.

At the end of Year R children will have learnt one way of writing each sound.

Important to learn that letters have names as well

as sounds!

Remember to use the correct sound...

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/Question/Index/3

(scroll down to the ‘say the sounds’ section)

or

Ideas to help at home

magnetic letters

whiteboards

write (use ‘small’ letters) with your child

read with your child

Tricky words

Words that have bits that you can not sound out!

I no the said was have

You could help your child learn to read them by making up a

matching pairs game or playing tricky word bingo!

Modelled writing

•Modelled writing each day•A guided writing session each week• Cursive handwriting- starting each letter from the line•Handwriting sessions

Let’s write a sentence together!

How do we assess?

The Government have changed the assessment and reporting procedures for Early Years this year.

- We are using the document ‘DEVELOPMENT MATTERS’.

-We will monitor progress against these age bands:30-50mths 40-60mths and then the ELG within this document.

- During the year we will monitor, through; Child initiated play, focused group activities and whole class teaching.

- In learning journeys you will be able to your child’s progress.

Using phonics to read

Reading books with no wordsNew phonic home readersUse Oxford Reading Tree alongside

new phonic home readersReading record cardsChange books twice a week

• finding time to talk together• listening for sounds• singing and making music• hearing rhyming words • reading books • learning nursery rhymes and sharing poems together

Continue to support by

Websites that you might find useful

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/http://www.starfall.com http://www.sebastianswan.org.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickeyhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures

For ‘sound’ mats

http://www.twinkl.co.ukhttp://displays.tpet.co.uk

Last thoughts...

Have fun!

Ask staff if you have any questions at any time.