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St Wilfrid's CofE Primary School

Phonics

At St Wilfrid’s we teach children to read and spell during daily phonics lessons using the program ‘Letters and Sounds’. The sounds are taught in an order that allows children to start reading whole words as soon as possible.

During phonics lesson the children learn:

A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word.
A grapheme is the letter or letters that represent the phoneme.
How to blend (synthesise) these sounds together to make words.
How to segment a word and apply their phonetical knowledge when spelling.

Click on the links below to watch Miss Parr's videos of the different phonemes in each phase and how they are pronounced.

Phase 2 - https://youtu.be/2W2B9TnnSlo

Phase 3 - https://youtu.be/R_hgRGnUSVw

Phase 5 - https://youtu.be/vR0YvFQlF_k

The ‘Letters and Sounds’ program is split into 6 phases. Each phase has a list of ‘tricky words’. These words are exceptions to the rules so the children have to be able to sight read them.

Phase 1	Listening to and for sounds. Rhythm and rhyme Alliteration
Phase 2	Sounds taught: s, a, t, p, I,n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r ,h, b ,f ,ff ,l ,ll , ss Tricky words: the, to, go, no.
Phase 3	Sounds taught: j, v, w ,x ,y, z, zz, qu ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er Tricky words: no, go, I, the, to, he, she, we, me, be, was, my, you, they, her, all , are.
Phase 4	Recap all previous sounds. little, one, they, all, are , do, when , out, what, my, her Read and write words with initial and/or final blends: st, nd, mp, nt, nk, ft, sk, lt, lp, tr, dr, gr, cr, br, fr, bl, fl, gl, pl, cl,sl, sp, st, tw, sm, nch, shr, str, thr Teach reading and spelling tricky words: said, so, he, we , me, be, have, like, some, come, was, you, were.
Phase 5	Learn new phoneme zh Teach new graphemes for reading ay, ou , ie, ea , oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e Teach reading words oh, their, people, Mr, Mrs, looked, called, asked, water, where, who, again, thought, through, work, mouse, many, laughed, because, different, any, eyes, friends, once, please. Teach spelling words said, so, have, like, some, were, there, oh, their, people, Mr, Mrs, looked, called, asked. Teach alternative spellings for ch, j, m, n, r, s, z, u, i, ear, ar, air, or, ur, oo, ai, ee, igh, oa, y/oo, oo, sh
Phase 6	Understand and apply suffixes – ed, ing, ful, est, er, ment, ness, en, s, es Understand the rules for adding ing, ed, er, est, ful, ly, y Investigate how adding suffixes and prefixes changes words Introduce the past tense

By the end of reception, we would expect the children to have a secure understanding of all sounds up to and including phase 3.

By the end of Year 1, we would expect children to have a secure understanding of all sounds up to and including phase 5.

By the end of Year 2, we would expect children to have a secure knowledge of the sounds in all phase and be able to apply their knowledge effectively in their reading and their writing.

Each phonics lesson follows the same four-step format:

Revisit and review- This allows the children to go over previous learning.
Teach- The children learn a new sound or spelling rule.
Practise- This gives the children the opportunity to write words with the sound or spelling rule in.
Apply- This is when the children apply their learning by writing sentences.

Click on the link below to see Miss Parr delivering a Year 1 phonics lesson, this should help with the understanding of the 4 step format.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjydCy5ZUV0

We would expect the children to be able to spell many/most common exception words for their year group. These are listed below.

Year 1 common exception words

the	of	his	go	our	push
a	says	has	school	once	pull
to	are	I	where	ask	full
today	is	no	love	friend

Year 2 common exception words

door	wild	every	father	improve	many
floor	climb	great	class	sure	clothes
poor	most	break	grass	sugar	busy
because	only	steak	pass	eye	people
find	both	pretty	plant	even	water
mind	old	beautiful	bath	should	again
kind	cold	after	path	would	half
behind	gold	fast	hour	who	money
child	hold	last	move	whole	parents
children	told	past	prove	any	Christmas
everybody

Year 1 Phonics Parents Meeting 2019

Phonics in Year 1.pptx

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