Teaching and Learning of Phonics

Phonics is all about using:

SKILLS for reading and spelling + KNOWLEDGE of the alphabet.

We use the Letters and Sounds Scheme to support the teaching of Phonics

Everyday the children have a 20 minutes Phonic session.

Session Structure:

• Revisit
• Phoneme teach (new)
• Apply (activities)
• Tricky word

We have 4 days of new sounds and 1 day revisit/apply.

We assess the children each Half Term to address any sounds that need recapping.

In May we have a Phonics Screening Check which is an assessment to confirm whether pupils have learnt their letter sounds and whether they can use them to decode and read a range of words of increasing phonic complexity.

Phonic Terms

• Phonemes: The smallest units of sound that are found within a word
• Grapheme: The spelling of the sound e.g. Th
• Diagraph: Two letters that make one sound when read
• Trigraphs: Three letters that make one sound
• CVC: Stands for consonant, vowel, consonant.
• Segmenting: Breaking up a word into its sounds.
• Blending : Putting the sounds together to read a word
• Tricky words: Words that cannot easily be decoded