Sutton Bonington Phonics evening

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Sutton Bonington Phonics evening
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What is phonics?

• Phonics is the system of relationships between
  letters and sounds in a language.
• When your child learns that the letter B has the
  sound of /b/ or learns that "tion" sounds like
  /shun/, they are learning phonics.
• There are 44 individual phonemes or sounds in the
  English language.
• A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a
  word.
• In Jolly Phonics, the scheme we use in school to
  teach phonics, each sound is assigned an action
  to help children remember each of them more
  easily.

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The 44 phonemes
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The sounds that are introduced in Class R.
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The sounds that are introduced in Class 1.
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The sounds that are introduced in Class 2.
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GRAPHEME

• Letters representing a phoneme
• e.g.
• c ai igh

Children need to practise recognising the
grapheme and saying the phoneme that it
represents.
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• BLENDING
• Recognising the letter sounds in a written word,
  for example
• c-u-p
• and merging or blending them in the order
  in which they are written to pronounce the word
  cup

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• SEGMENTING
• Chopping Up the word to spell it out
• The opposite of blending

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Once children are good with single phonemes

• DIGRAPHS 2 letters that make 1 sound
• ll ss zz oa ai
• TRIGRAPHS 3 letters that make 1 sound
• igh air

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• We use a variety of methods to teach children
  both phonemes and graphemes.
• We try to make the phonics sessions fun and
  multi-sensory, and play a variety of games to
  help the children learn.

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Sound Actions
The vowel sounds
Other sounds
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Blending activity

• This pirate game motivates children to blend and
  read words. The words are made up from letters
  the children have been learning that week.
• Children are asked to say the sounds and then
  blend them in order to read the word.
• They must then decide if it is a proper word
  (treasure) or a meaningless (trash) word.
• We also play a variation on this game where
  children dig up large coins with words on and
  sort into a treasure chest in the sand tray.

Nonsense games like this help to build up skills
and are fun!
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Segmenting Activity

• We are going to use your whiteboards to play the
  sound buttons game. You need to work out how
  many phonemes there are in each word.
• First lets use this website to play a game.
• Now can you tackle these words without any help.
• shelf
• dress
• sprint
• string

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Did you get it right?

• shelf sh e l f 4 phonemes
• dress d - r - e ss 4 phonemes
• sprint s p r i n t 6 phonemes
• string s t r i ng 5 phonemes

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Full Circle

• Start by writing the word light at the top of
  your whiteboard.
• The aim of the game is to keep changing letters
  to make lots of words until you get to light
  again when you call out Full Circle.

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Did you make it all the way round?

• Check out your answers light, right, root, room,
  roam, road, raid, paid, pain, main, mail, sail,
  sigh, sight, light.
• You know these graphemes ai, igh, oo, oa, l, t,
  r, m, d, p, n, s.

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Mr. Moseley

• Phoneme Spotter Strategy
• Once upon a time I saw an astronaut at a space
  centre. He was looking very smart in his space
  suit that was all shiny and silver. He was
  waiting for the launch which was meant to be
  happening in a few hours time. I asked him why
  the rocket hadnt launched into space yet and he
  told me that there had been a fault on board. He
  didnt know what had caused it but apparently a
  Hawk had laid its eggs inside one of the booster
  rockets. It didnt surprise me because in August,
  hawks like to lay their eggs.

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Mr. Moseley

• Phoneme Spotter Strategy
• Once upon a time I saw an astronaut at a space
  centre. He was looking very smart in his space
  suit that was all shiny and silver. He was
  waiting for the launch which was meant to be
  happening in a few hours time. I asked him why
  the rocket hadnt launched into space yet and he
  told me that there had been a fault on board. He
  didnt know what had caused it but apparently a
  Hawk had laid its eggs inside one of the booster
  rockets. It didnt surprise me because in August,
  hawks like to lay their eggs.

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TRICKY WORDS

• Words that are not phonically decodable
• e.g. was, the, I
• Some are tricky to start with but will become
  decodable once we have learned the harder
  phonemes
• e.g. out, there,
• At the start of the year we will send out a list
  of these high frequency words. The average child
  will be expected to be able to read and write
  them by the end of the year.

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• We assess each childs knowledge of all of these
  sounds.
• We then group all the children from Class R to 3
  according to their sound knowledge.
• Daily 25 minute sessions to support their
  learning.
• Weekly spellings linked to the sounds they are
  learning that week, (not Reception children
  unless they are very able).
• 2 types of test.

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Handwriting

• We would also like to take this opportunity to
  show you the handwriting style we are teaching
  your children.
• All children from reception are taught to to form
  their letters in the following way.

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Pencil Hold

• Tripod grip
• Froggy legs
• movement

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Example of handwriting
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Jolly Grammar

• We would also like to briefly show the Jolly
  Phonics scheme you how our multi-sensory approach
  to phonics also transfers to our teaching of
  grammar.
• Jolly Grammar continues to teach children about
  phonics but also teaches children about the
  grammatical structures of the English language.

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• Verbs
• Nouns
• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• Connectives

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How to help at home
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• Most important thing From a very early age
• Talking and Listening.
• Reading with and to your child
• Playing listening games
• Singing songs and rhymes
• Simple movement games

All these things will help to build up
connections in the brain, an enjoyment of
language and confidence to try things out.
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• We all need to try and use the same language at
  home and at school.
• Correct pronunciation
• Correct vocabulary
• Practising little and often is the key. Does not
  have to be formal.
• Link it to your childs interests.

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Now you have the knowledge.

• Play lots of sound and listening games with your
  child.
• Read as much as possible to and with your child.
• Encourage and praise get them to have a good
  guess.
• Ask us if you want to know more.

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Useful websites

• www.parentsintouch.co.uk
• www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents
• www.jollylearning.co.uk/
• www.focusonphonics.co.uk/
• www.syntheticphonics.com