1 Phonics Workshop

2 In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programmeIn 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.

3 Terminology Phoneme Graphemes Segmenting and blending Digraph TrigraphGraphemes Segmenting and blending Digraph Trigraph Split digraph Abbreviations

4 Phase 1 There are 7 aspects with 3 strands. A1 – EnvironmentalA2 – Instrumental sounds A3 – Body Percussion A4 – Rhythm and rhyme A5 – Alliteration A6 – Voice sounds A7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

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

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

7 Phase 4 This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases.

8 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

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

10 Segmenting Breaking down words for spelling. cat c a t

11 Segmenting Queen qu ee n

12 Building words from phonemes to read.Blending Building words from phonemes to read. c a t cat

13 Blending Qu ee n queen

14 What does a Phonics lesson look like?Revisit/review Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far. Teach Teach new phoneme air Practice Buried treasure Air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair, vair, sair, thair Apply Read captions: The goat had a long beard. The quack was right in his ear.

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