Phonics

Mrs Lloyd - Assistant Head FS / Key Stage 1 Miss Wardle - Assistant Head Key Stage 2 Literacy Coordinator

What do we want for our readers at Lime Tree? u  To promote and encourage a lifelong love of reading

u  To develop an interest in and love of books, encouraging children to become attentive listeners and independent and reflective readers

u  To be able to read a variety of different words using

their phonetic knowledge and feel confident to have a go

What is Phonics? I have a spell in chequer It came with my pea see

It plane Leigh Marx four my revue Miss takes eye ken not sea I’ve run this poem threw IT

I’m shore your plea zed too no: It’s let a perfect in its weigh

My check her tolled me sew.

Knowledge, Skills and Understanding of…

� Blending -Hearing phonemes (sounds) in words and being able to merge them together

� Segmenting – Splitting words into different ‘chunks’

� Alphabetic codes – Understanding which letters represent different sounds in reading and writing

Terminology � Phoneme – is the smallest unit of a sound

b u g t a p ch i p

� Grapheme – is the letter that represents the phoneme in written form i.e our alphabet

English Phonetic System

140 representations

44 phonemes

26 letters of the alphabet

Sound buttons and bars

A sound button is one letter representing the phoneme

and a sound bar is more than one letter

Types of Grapheme

Digraph – two letters which make one sound ch, sh, ph, th, ng, nk, ll, ck, ff, ss, ay, ai, ee Trigraph – three letters which make one sound – igh, tch Quadgraphs – four letters which make one sound - eigh

Tricky Words �  Tricky words are those words that are partially

decodable but sound different to how they look

e.g. he, she, said, the, of �  Not all the word is tricky just part of it.

Read aloud together - It’s never too early to start reading to your

little ones. For older children, take turns reading each page of a

favourite book.

Read to your child - Establish a routine

for reading. Whether before bed or at

snack time, reading can fit into almost

any part of your daily routine.

FYI - This does not need to be a battle

with a ‘staged’ book!

Talk about what you are reading - Asking questions before, during and after

the read helps your child make connections and increase reading

comprehension skills.

Show your child that you enjoy reading - Be a reading model. Children

often mimic parent behaviour. Let your child see you enjoying reading and

soon you may have an avid reader yourself. 

GETTING MOST OUT OF PICTURE BOOKS   Ø  Picture books represent a unique literary form that blends

stories with art.

Ø  In a picture book, the illustrations are as important as the text,

and both work together to tell the story.

Ø  When you share picture books with children, be sure to pay

attention to the illustrations—reading picture books means

exploring the art as well.  

BRING BOOKS TO LIFE Pictures enable children to explore

the world within their own

imagination and make

connections to characters and

events they see depicted in books.

When you help children connect

with characters and events, you

make the book more real to them.

A few lovely books … Would you Rather? Dear Zoo The Very Hungry Caterpillar A Squash and a Squeeze The Gruffalo I will not never ever eat a tomato Room on a Broom Where the Wild Things Are The Jolly Postman

•  2 books – 1 staged (basic skills progression) and 1 library book (for enjoyment) •  Write in the blue tracking folder books that you are taking •  Return to the big box or pop back on the shelf •  Write in own yellow reading journal/diaries to keep another record of your books

reading at home •  Change as often as needed – daily, weekly •  If you cannot change regularly (x1 weekly) then please let your class teacher

know- they will change on their class’ designated day

•  New Reading Passport to support reading at home in line with new year group reading expectations

•  Staged Books – the evidence and the views

Current Reading Book System

Useful Websites u  http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html u  Phonics, word and spelling games for all phases/ages. Interactive alphabets, links to

other useful games sites

u  www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/ u  Mix of very good interactive games and worksheets covering most phonic phases.

Recommend Sandcastle quiz for phase 3 and 5

u  www.ictgames.com/literacy.html u  A great selection of games that link well with games in Letters and Sounds.

www.phonicsplay.co.uk

u  A selection of interactive games for all phonic phases. Mostly simple games but a few to choose from.

u  Espresso – school have signed up and is a free resource to use at home- there is also an APP

u  Login – student6779 password - limetree