Slides from Reception phonics workshop

1. 17th
and 18th
October
2018

2. In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds
programme. Letters and Sounds is a phonics
resource published by the Department for Education
and Skills which consists of six phases.
Jolly Phonics is an additional scheme that we follow
which incorporates actions and songs to enable the
children to retain and recall.

3. Key Vocabulary
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in
a word
A grapheme is the letter, or letters,
representing a phoneme
t ai igh

4. KEY VOCABULARY
 Blending is recognising the letter sounds in a
written word, for example c-u-p, and merging or
synthesising them in the order in which they are
written to pronounce the word ‘cup’
 Segmenting is identifying the individual sounds
in a spoken word (e.g. ‘him’ = h – i - m) and
writing down letters for each sound to form the
word.

5. DIGRAPHS AND TRI-GRAPHS
Digraph - Two letters, making one sound
A consonant digraph contains two
consonants
sh ck th ll
A vowel digraph contains at least one
vowel
ai ee ar oy
Tri-graph - Three letters making one sound
igh dge

6. PHASE 1
 There are 7 aspects with 3 strands.
 A1 – Environmental
 A2 – Instrumental sounds
 A3 – Body Percussion
 A4 – Rhythm and rhyme
 A5 – Alliteration
 A6 – Voice sounds
 A7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

7. PHASE 2
Set 1: s, a, t, p
Set 2: i, n, m, d
Set 3: g, o, c, k
Set 4: ck, e, u, r
Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

8. PHASE 3
Set 6: j, v, w, x
Set 7: y, z, zz, qu
Consonant digraphs: ch, sh,
th, ng
Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh,
oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air,
ure, er

9. PHASE 4
This phase consolidates
all the children have learnt
in the previous phases.

10. PHASE 5
Children will be taught new
graphemes and alternative
pronunciations for these graphemes.
Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie,
ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au
 Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e,
u_e

11. PHASE 6
The focus is on learning spelling
rules for suffixes.
-s -es -ing -ed
-er -est -y -en
-ful -ly -ment -ness

12. WHAT DOES A PHONICS LESSON LOOK
LIKE?
Revisit/review Flashcards to practice phonemes
learnt so far.
s,a,t,p,i,n,d,m
Teach Teach new phoneme
Practice Buried treasure
Apply Read captions:
dad and nan
a tin can
a sad man
a pin on a map

13. RESOURCES
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk

14. RESOURCES
https://www.youtube.com

15. YEAR 1 PHONICS
SCREENING
Here is an example of the type of words (real words and nonsense
words) which are used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening. Pupils will
have 40 words to read; 20 are real words and 20 are nonsense
words. This checks pupils’ phonic development.

16. SENDING BOOKS HOME
 We will be sending books home with no words to
start with.
 This encourages the children to talk about the
pictures in the story and invent their own
storyline.
 We will also be introducing Bug Club which is a
website which allows us to send electronic books
home for you to read with your children.