Phonics

Phonics in the Foundation Stage

•Vocabulary

•Listening

•Speaking

•Rhymes

Vocabulary

1.Speak to your child as often as possible.

2.Listen to their responses.

3.Add to what they have said.

Listening

1. Listening to environmental sounds.

2. Listening to music

3. Listening to stories.

Speaking

1. Speaking to 1 other person.

2. Speaking in a small group.

3. Speaking in a large group.

Rhymes

• Nursery rhymes

• Make up new verses

• Rhyming words

Initial Letter Sounds

• Looking at initial letter of your child’s name.

• Progress to friends and family.

• Initial letter sounds of objects.

Middle Sounds

• Look at words with the same middle sound.

• Encourage your child to look for letters in their name.

End of Words

• Look for sounds at the end of name.

• Listen for same sounds at the end of words. E.g. cat, hat, mat, bat.

Segmenting and Blending

Segmenting:

cat

Blending:

c a t

Phonics in Years 1 and 2

• Vowel – a, e, i, o, and u• Consonant – all other letters

• CVC words - dog

• CVCC words - walk

• CCVC words - chip

Year 1

• Tricky words

• Words that cannot be sounded out.

• E.G. like, my, the, said, they

Year 1

• Begin to build a bank of high frequency words.

• I, go, come, look, dog, away, she, mum, went, up, you, day, was etc.

Year 2

• Builds on all that Foundation Stage and Year 1 has done.

• Medium frequency words. E.g. swimming, children, birthday, morning and sometimes.

Syllables

• Read 2 syllable words• Say the word• Clap each syllable• Lunchbox – lunch/box• Sound talk the first syllable and blend • Then do the same with the second syllable.• Adult says both syllables. • Repeat and then ask the child to join in.

Phonics

• Look for spelling patterns – light, night, might

• Could, would, should

Phonics

• a – ai ay e.g. rain and day

• ai usually found in the middle of words.

• ay usually found at the end of words

• e – ea ee ey e.g. sea, sheep and key

• Encourage children to see common spelling patterns by looking at the words.

Suffix

• Singing

• Find root word – singing

• ing, ed, er, est, ful, ly and y

Spelling Rules

• If root word ends in an e – drop it!

e.g. hope – hoping• If root word ends in a y preceded by a consonant –

change it to an i!

e.g. baby – babies• If root word ends in a single consonant preceded by a

vowel and the suffix begins with a vowel – double the consonant!

e.g. shop + ing - shopping

Mnemonics

• These are great ways to help spellings!

• Could – O U lucky duck

• People – people eat orange peel like elephants

• Because – big elephants can always understand small elephants.

Even though the phonics programme finishes in Year 2, all these strategies are implemented

throughout the school.

Thank you