Know your stuff for teaching phonics in KS 1

PGCEPhonics workshop

Questions… What are your questions for this

session?

What do you want to leave knowing?

Quality First TeachingWhat children need to do

Daily systematic phonics teaching

Vocabulary instruction Guided reading Interactive 1–1 reading Shared reading and writing Linked reading and writing

experiences Diagnostic listening to

children read Miscue analysis

What practitioners need to know and do

Stages in reading development

Phonological skills Grapheme/phoneme

correspondences Semantic skills Visual word recognition Comprehension monitoring Diagnostic assessment Assessment for Learning

strategies

Revision What is a phoneme? How is it different from a grapheme? How many phonemes are there ? Why are some phonemes

represented by more than one letter? What do we call a phoneme

represented by two letters? Three letters? Four letters?

Articulating vowel and consonant phonemes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s

Phoneme cards In groups One of you acts as teacher and holds

up one phoneme at a time, the others practise pronouncing it correctly

The trick is to think of the sounds as they are said in words, rather than focussing on what you are seeing as a written letter

Swap so that others get a chance to play teacher

Blending and segmenting phonemes

Using a phoneme frame – example from Progression in Phonics (DFEE, 2000)

Phoneme frame Draw 4 cells on your whiteboard We are going to practise writing

words with 3 or 4 phonemes ONE phoneme to ONE cell – be

careful! It’s useful to work them out using

phoneme fingers first

Useful games for several phases Full Circle and Rhyming Word Generation:

Both games are suited to any phase of a systematic synthetic phonics programme: they support children’s blending, segmenting, reading and spelling

Phoneme Spotter: stories with words that share a phoneme, usually represented with a variety of graphemes. Children highlight where they can see the phoneme represented.

Putting together a phonics lesson (revision)

Revisit/Review e.g. practice previously learned phonemes and their graphemes

Teach – e.g. teaching blending and segmenting of adjacent consonants/ tricky words/ a new digraph etc.

Practise – e.g. practise using the new digraph/ tricky word etc.

Apply – e.g. use the new learning in reading simple sentences

Teaching alternative pronunciations for graphemes i, o,

c and g If you are introducing this at phase

5.. What would you Revisit and Review? What do you do in the Teach section

of your lesson? How would children Practise their

new learning? What would you give them so that

they can Apply it ?

I don’t have time to think abut all this detail!

http://www.devonldp.org/v.asp?rootid=17&depth=3&level1=17&level2=391&level3=1303&folderid=1303&level2id=391

An amazing resource which shows outline planning for all weeks of all phases of Letters and Sounds and could be adapted for other phonics programmes

Buried treasure

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/Phase3Menu.htm

Help, I don’t know any phonics games!

Letters and Sounds has games in, you just have to read a lot to find them

Try using the Playing with Sounds games posted with the phonics workshop for today

Try looking in our School Resources base in the library

Most systematic, synthetic phonics programme include games and the resources to play them

Take care with web-based resources of which there are tons: some are old NLS based and others are more parent than teacher oriented.