Birdwell School

Phonics and Spelling

Workshop

WALT:
Share how phonics is taught in Key Stage 1 outline
terminology and structure
Share examples of activities and resources we use to
teach phonics
Share websites which parents can use to support
their children
Give you an opportunity to ask questions

Phonics is all about using

skills for
reading and
spelling

knowledge
of the
alphabet

Learning phonics will help your child

to become a good reader and writer.

Every child in KS1 and lower KS2

has a 20 minute daily phonics or
spelling session at their level.
Children are brilliant at moving to
their phonics groups and working
really hard for the short burst of
phonics and spelling time.

Daily Phonics

Every day the children have 20 minute

sessions of phonics.
It is a fast paced approach.
Lessons encompass a range of games,
writing on whiteboards and exploration of
patterns and rules.
There are 6 phonics phases which the
children work through at their own pace.

Phonic terms your child will

learn at school

Phoneme
Grapheme
Blending
Segmenting
Digraph
Split digraph
Trigraph
Phoneme frame
Sound button
Tricky words

Glossary:
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
Split diagraph: Two letters that make one long vowel
sound but that are split by a consonant e.g. hope
Trigraphs: Three letters that make one sound
Segmenting is breaking up a word into its sounds.
Blending : Putting the sounds together to read a word
Tricky words: Words that cannot easily be decoded.

Phonics Screening check Year 1

A new statutory assessment for all children in
Year 1
It is designed to confirm whether individual children
have learned phonic decoding to an appropriate
standard.

40 words that children read 1:1 with a teacher

A combination of real words and psuedo-words or
alien words.

If children do not meet the

required pass mark for the check,
then additional phonic support will
be put in place, if needed.

In Years 1 and 2

Typical lesson
4 part lesson - usually up to 20 minutes.
1.Revisit/Review practise previously learned letters or graphemes
2.Teach Teach new graphemes. Teach one or two new tricky
words.
3.Practise Practise blending and reading words with new GPC.
Practise segmenting for spelling words with new GPC.
4.Apply Read or write a caption or sentence using one or more
tricky words and words containing the grapheme.

Phase 5
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
Learn alternative pronunciations of graphemes
(the same grapheme can represent more than one
phoneme):
Fin/find, hot/cold, cat/cent, got/giant,
but/put, cow/blow, tie/field, eat/bread,
farmer/her, hat/what, yes/by/very,
chin/school/chef, out/shoulder/could/you.
.

Learning all the variations!

Learning that the same phoneme can be
represented in more than one way:

burn
first
term
heard
work

Learning all the variations!

Learning that the same grapheme
can represent more than one
phoneme:
meat bread
he

bed

bear hear
cow low

Teaching the split digraph

tie

time

toe

tone

cue

cube

pie

pine

The children love reading

alien words!
fawsting

A Real Treat!
Tom was very happy. It was the weekend and he was off to the
beach with his mum and dad, his puppy and baby Pete.
Help me pack the green bag, said Mum. We need sun cream and
lots to eat.
Tom got into his seat in the back of the car and the puppy got on
his knee. Pete held his toy sheep. Off they went. Beep! Beep!
At the end of the street there was a big truck. It had lost a wheel.
Oh, no, said Tom. Well be here for a week!
Dad went to speak to the driver to see if he could help. They put
the wheel back on. Then Dad said, I must hurry, we need to get to
the beach.
At last they got to the sea. Tom and Pete had an ice cream. Mum
and Dad had a cup of tea. The puppy went to sleep under a tree.

Phase 6
Phase 6 focuses on spellings and
learning rules for spelling alternatives.
Children look at syllables, base words,
analogy and mnemonics.
Children might learn about past tense,
rules for adding ing and irregular
verbs
tion and sion words
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Is there anything I can

do at home?

How can I help at home?

When spelling, encourage your child to think

about what looks right.

Have fun trying out different optionswipe clean

whiteboards are good for trying out spellings.

tray
rain
boil
boy
throat
snow

trai
rayn
boyl
boi
throwt
snoa

Fun ideas
There are lots of ideas in your
pack to help you be as creative as
you can to help your child to learn
their sounds/tricky words.

Splat!

Bingo

Splat!

ow
ss

ea
wh

sh

ng
zz

th

igh
er

Sound Bingo!

ie
ea
wh
oy
aw

ay
er
e-e
ph
ue

At home
Use sound mats to support quick recall
Have fun making alien words put sounds together
to make real and not real words
Play phonic games there are lots of useful websites
Have lots of good quality reading books available
use the Library with your child
Read everyday with your child if possible as well as
hearing them read, share stories before bedtime
and let them catch you reading too!
www.phonicsplay.com is a really useful website