St Barnabas and St Paul’s CE
Primary School
Reading and Phonics workshop
How to help at home
How we teach reading
in reception
• The first step is through speaking
and listening skills – can children hear
sounds, say sounds and make sounds.
• Can they rhyme and robot talk?
• Can they tell a story by looking at the
pictures?
• 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.
Characters
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/characters.shtml#
• We then teach children letter sounds
and how to put sounds together
(blending) to read words.
• We use a phonics scheme called
letters and sounds.
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Phonics Overview
‘Letters & Sounds’ is the government programme for teaching
phonics and high frequency words
It is split into 6 phases with the different phases being covered in
different years in Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1.
 Phase 1– Nursery / Reception
 Phase 2– Reception
 Phase 3– Reception
 Phase 4– Reception / Year 1
 Phase 5– Year 1
 Phase 6– Year 2
• PHONICS
• Correct pronunciation
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s
• Little and often is the key. Does
not have to be formal.
• Link it to your child’s interests.
PHONEME
- what you hear
• The smallest unit of sound in a word.
• There are 44 phonemes that we
teach.
The 44 phonemes
/s/ /a/
/ss/
/t/
/p/
/i/
/n/
/m/
/d/
/g/
/o/
/c/
/k/
/ck/
/e/
/u/
/r/
/h/
/b/
/f/
/ff/
/l/
/ll/
/j/
/v/
/w/
/x/
/y/
/z/
/qu/ /ch/ /sh/ /th/
/th/
/ng/ /ai/
/oo/ /oo/ /ar/ /or/ /ur/ /ow/ /oi/
/ee/ /igh/ /oa/
/ear/ /air/ /ure/ /er/
/zh/
GRAPHEME
• Letters representing a phoneme
- what you see
e.g.
c
ai
igh
Children need to practise
recognising the grapheme and
saying the phoneme that it
represents.
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’
SEGMENTING
• ‘Chopping Up’ the word to spell it out
• The opposite of blending
• Sound talk the word
Segment and Blend these
words…
•drep
•blom
•gris
Nonsense games like this help to build up
skills – and are fun!
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 dge
Segmenting Activity
• Have a go at sound talking to say how
many phonemes in each word.
• dog
• boat
• dress
• sprint
• string
Here are the answers
• dog =
d–o–g
= 3 phonemes
• boat =
b – oa – t
= 3 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
TRICKY WORDS
• Words that are not phonically decodeable
• e.g. was, the, I
• Some are ‘tricky’ to start with but will
become decodeable once we have learned
the harder phonemes
• e.g. out, there,
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 your child’s teacher if you want to
know more.
What next?
• Your child will get a reading book to
take home today.
• Please read with your child.
• Sign the reading record to show you
have read with your child.
• Return to school each Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
Useful websites
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www.phonicsplay.co.uk
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents
www.ictgames.com/literacy.html
www.parentsintouch.co.uk
• Jolly phonics song videos
• Phase 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGpsVmWLRFA
• Phase 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjKq8s8154s&feature=rel
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Useful apps ect…
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Cbeebies playtime app – alphablocks
Cbeebies rhyme rocket/ alphablocks
Letter names – Kids ABC letters
Interactive stories – lots of
different stories made by TabTale