Welcome to the

Phonics Workshop

Miss Chhina

Phonics Screening Check

The phonics screening check is a short assessment to confirm whether

individual children have learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate

standard.

It will identify the children who need extra help, so they are given

support to improve their reading skills.

In June, Year 1 children and any child in Year 2 who failed or did

not sit the year 1 phonics screening check, has a phonics screening

check.

What is Read, Write Inc?

Developed by Ruth Miskin.

A dynamic whole-school literacy programme rooted in

synthetic phonics.

Offers a transformational approach to teaching literacy

which raises results and behaviour standards across the

whole school.

RWI Phonics

• Aimed at 4 – 7 year old children learning to read and

write (Year R – 2).

• Catch up for 7 – 8 year olds (Year 2).

• It is proven to develop:

1. fluent, enthusiastic readers,

2. deep comprehension of texts

3. confident speakers

4. keen writers.

Fred Talk As soon as the children know a group of sounds they are introduced to a

character called Fred.

Fred knows that there are 44 sounds in our language. He knows that sounds

must be very pure and distinct so children can sound blend.

Fred Talk Segmenting c-a-t ch-i-p l-igh-t

Children Say Blending cat chip light

Avoid cuh-a-tuh chuh-i-puh luh-igh-tuh

A phoneme is the smallest

unit of sound in a word.

c-u-p c-a-t d-o-g

Phoneme

RWI Phonics In the Read, Write Inc programme, all the 44 sounds have been

divided into 3 sets:

Speed Sounds

Set 1 Set 2 Set 3

m a s d

t i n p g

o c k u b f

e l h sh

r j v y

w th z ch

q x ng

nk

ay ee igh

ow oo oo

ar or air

ir ou oy

a-e ea i-e

o-e u-e

aw are

ur er ow

ai oa ew

ire ear

ure tious

tion

Real and Pseudo Words

Real and Pseudo Words

Set 1 Sounds:

Booklets later:

Speed Sounds Set 1

m, a, s, d, t, i, n, p, g, o, c, k, u, b, ck,

f, e, l, h, sh, r, j, y, v, w, th, z, ch, qu, x.

5 new sounds are taught every week, 1 new sound each day.

Children learn how to make words using the sounds they have learnt the

previous week. e.g.

Week 1: m,a,s,d,t

Word Time: Make words using above sounds e.g. sad, sam, mad, mat, as,

at.

C consonant phoneme

V vowel phoneme (a, e, i, o or u)

C consonant phoneme

CVC Words

Consonant:

b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x y z

Vowel:

a e i o u

CVC Words

sad

cat

pin

not

dim

CVC Words

Reading Booklets:

Speed Sounds Set 2

Children are taught digraphs.

Sometimes 2 letters come together to make 1 sound.

ay, ee, oo, ow, or, ou, oy, ir, ar.

Children are taught trigraphs too.

Sometimes 3 letters come together to make 1 sound.

air, igh.

Two letters, which make one sound:

A consonant digraph contains two consonants

sh ck th ll ss ff zz ch

A vowel digraph contains at least one vowel

ai ee ar oy or oa ou ir

Digraph

Share 2 examples

Set 2 Sounds:

Three letters, which make one sound

ear are ure

Trigraph

Booklet

A digraph in which the two letters are not adjacent:

a-e make

i-e bike

o-e smoke

u-e huge

Split Digraph

Share 2 examples

Set 3 Sounds:

Count the phonemes How many phonemes can you count in the following words?

Word Sounds Number of

Sounds

mask m-a-s-k 4

car c-ar 2

jumper j-u-m-p-er 5

starlight s-t-ar-l-igh-t 6

teacher t-ea-ch-er 4

window w-i-n-d-ow 5

Real and Pseudo Words

Real and Pseudo Words

Useful Websites

www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/alphablocks/

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/literacy/

www.ictgames.co.uk

www.phonicsplay.co.uk

www.northwood.org.uk/phonics

http://www.teachfind.com/national-strategies/letters-and-

sounds-principles-and-practice-high-quality-phonics

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/

www.phonicsplay.co.uk

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics

www.mrthorne.com