Introduction to Phonics Learning

1. READY FOR
PHONICS
WEDNESDAY 11TH OCTOBER 2023
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2. WHAT IS PHONICS?
Phonics is a method of teaching
children to read and pronounce
words by learning the phonetic
value of letters, letter groups and
syllables.
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3. WHY DO WE TEACH
PHONICS?
We teach phonics to support the
learning of reading and spelling –
if a child has a secure
understanding of phonics they
have the skills to decode when
reading and build words for
spelling.
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4. DEVELOPING LEARNING
ACROSS A WEEK?
• 20+ minutes phonics lesson every
day
Revisit/ Teach/ Practise/ Apply/ Assess
• Daily application in writing
• Daily application across the
curriculum
• Application in reading
• Application in writing and spelling
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5. PHONIC TERMINOLOGY
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a
word. There are approximately 44 phonemes in
English. Phonemes can be put together to make
words.
A grapheme is a way of writing down a
phoneme. Graphemes can be 1, 2, 3 or 4 letters
long.
E.G. p sh igh ough
GPC is short for Grapheme Phoneme
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6. SEGMENTING
Segmenting is identifying the
individual phonemes in a spoken
word.
(e.g. him = h-i-m) and writing down
letters for each sound to form the
word.
Linked closely to spelling.
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7. BLENDING
Blending is identifying the phonemes in
a written word e.g. c-u-p and merging
them in the order in which they are
written to pronounce the word -cup.
Linked closely to reading.
It is important the children say the word
after it has been segmented when
reading in order to maintain
comprehension.
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8. DIGRAPH
Two graphemes making one
phoneme.
A consonant digraph contains two
consonants.
sh ck th ll
A vowel digraph contains at least one
vowel.
ai ee ar er
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9. TRIGRAPH
A trigraph is 3 graphemes making one
phoneme.
igh
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10. SPLIT DIGRAPH
A split digraph is a digraph in which
the two letters making the phoneme
are not adjacent.
E.G. Make
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11. PHASES
There are 6 phases in the English
phonic progression.
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12. PHASE 1
Phase One phonics concentrates on
developing children's speaking and
listening skills and lays the foundations
for the phonic work which starts in
Phase 2. The emphasis during Phase 1 is
to get children attuned to the sounds
around them and ready to begin
developing oral blending and segmenting
skills. Hummingbirds-Time to Talk, Bug Club
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13. PHASE 2
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14. PHASE 3
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15. PHASE 3 GRAPHEMES
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16. PHASE 4
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17. PHASE 5
This phase is almost unique to the
English language.
In phase 5 the children are taught to
recognise and use alternative ways
of pronouncing the graphemes and
spelling the phonemes already
taught.
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18. PHASE 5 OUTCOMES
The children will:
• Use alternative ways of pronouncing the graphemes already
taught.
E.G. ow in now and ow in window
• Use alternative ways of spelling the same phoneme.
E.G. rain day make baby they great
• Recognise an increasing number of high frequency words
automatically.
• Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the prime approach in
reading and spelling when the words are unfamiliar and not
completely decodable.
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19. SAME GRAPHEME
DIFFERENT PHONEME!
mean
bread
great
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20. SAME PHONEME
DIFFERENT GRAPHEMES
may
bake
train
lady
they
great
This is phase 5!!
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21. PHONIC SCREENING
CHECK
• This is a national assessment which takes place across ALL
Year 1 classes.
• The screening check measures the children’s attainment in
phonics and their ability to segment and blend words.
• The check includes real and psuedo words.
• The assessment will take place early June 2024.
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22. PHASE 6
Phase 6 focuses on turning pupils into fluent
readers and accurate spellers by teaching
them fundamental grammatical skills, such as
verb tenses, suffixes, additional spelling rules
and helpful spelling techniques. There are no
new tricky words to teach children as they
study phase 6 phonics. Instead, pupils should
use the skills that they are being taught to
make a plausible attempt at accurately spelling
any age-appropriate word necessary.
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23. ACCREDITED
PHONICS SCHEME
As of September 2023 we have had to follow an
accredited Phonics Scheme.
We have chosen to follow ‘Bug Club’ as we already had
the main resources online.
Children have their lesson and this is reinforced
through their homework and across the school day.
Books and games that match the GPCs taught are set.
https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/planning#bugclu
b_phonics
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24. QUESTIONS
Thank you for coming this
afternoon.
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