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							Letters and Sounds
 A parents guide to the teaching of
             Phonics
              What is phonics?
   Phonics teaching involves teaching children the
    sounds of letters (not just the names) and how
    to segment and blend them together to make
    words, e.g. c-a-t can be blended to make cat.

   Video 1
            Phonics consists of:
   Identifying sounds in spoken words, e.g. sat, pin,
    pat.
   Recognising the common spelling of each
    phoneme: e.g. sh, ay, a-e
   Blending words into phonemes for reading, e.g.
    ship
   Segmenting words into phonemes for spelling:
    sh-i-p
              Useful definitions
   Phoneme-smallest unit of sound in a word.
   Grapheme-written representation of the sound.
   Digraph-two letters making one sound, e.g. ee
   Trigraph-three letters making one sound, e.g. igh
   Split digraph-where 2 letters are not adjacent,
    e.g. a-e
            Letters and Sounds
   At Ladygrove we teach phonics using a
    government scheme called Letters and Sounds.
    It is a systematic programme for teaching
    phonics, reading and writing skills.

   It starts in the Foundation Stage and progresses
    through Key Stage 1 and 2.
            Who and how often?
   It is a requirement that children in Reception are
    taught 20 minutes of letters and sounds per day.

   At Ladygrove years 1-4 are currently also
    spending at least 20 minutes a day on letters and
    sounds.
                      Phases
   Phonics and reading skills are taught in six
    distinct phases.

   These phases are set out in the letters and
    sounds document.

   Phases 1-6
                        Phases
   Phase 1: Children learn rhymes, keep rhythms and start
    to relate letter sounds to words. e.g. b for bag.
   Phase 2 Children learn initial letter sounds and build 3
    letter words
   Phase 3 Children learn all 44 phonemes and blend
    sounds to read words
   Phase 4 Children blend consonants together to read
    difficult words e.g. blue, grab.
   Phase 5 Children learn how to spell letter sounds in
    more than one way e.g. rain, day, make.
   Phase 6 Children learn how to spell word specific
    spellings. E.g. turned, beautiful, shopping
Letters and Sounds at Ladygrove
   Recall: Revisit & review previous sound and
    word building
   Teach: a new phonic skill
   Practise: the new skill
   Apply in different situations. E.g. reading in a
    sentence, writing the word in a sentence, using
    skills in other words.
       How you can help at home
   Pronunciation
   Reading-little and often
   Encourage sounding out
   Praise
   Tricky words
              Useful websites
   www.sparklebox.co.uk
   www.twinkl.co.uk
   www.phonicsplay.co.uk

   Video-http://www.teachfind.com/national-
    strategies/letter-and-sounds-%E2%80%93-
    articulation-phonemes-vowels-and-consonants