Phonics
Phonics is a method of learning letter sounds, blending them together to read words and segmenting them to spell words.
It teaches the sound each letter or group of letters makes, rather than the letter name (which is also taught). This makes words easier to read and spell.
Our school follows the Read Write Inc. system which teaches the phonics in the following order:
Set 1 - Introduced in Reception
m a s d t I n p g o c k u b f e l h sh r j v y w th z ch qu x ng nk
Set 2 - Introduced in Reception
ay – May I play?
igh – Fly high
oo – Poo at the zoo
ar – Start the car
air – That’s not fair!
ou – Shout it out
ee – What can you see?
ow – Blow the snow
oo – look at the book
or – Shut the door
ir – Whirl and twirl
oy – Toy for a boy
Set 3 Introduced in Year 1
ea – Cup of tea
oi – Spoil the boy
a_e – Make a cake
i_e – Nice smile
o_e – Phone home
u_e – Huge brain
aw – Yawn at dawn
are –Care and share
ur – Nurse with a purse
er – A better letter
ow – Brown cow
ai – Snail in the rain
oa – Goat in a boat
ew – Chew the stew
ire – Fire, fire!
ear – hear with your ear
oe – woe my toe
ure – Sure it’s pure
ie – tie your bowtie
ey – monkey bogeys
Additional Sounds:
ue – come to the rescue
au – Paul the astronaut
e-e – go to Pete and Steve!
kn – knock knock who’s there?
ck – tick tock clock
wh – whisk whisk
ph – take a photo
ss ff ll zz
long vowel sounds - a e i o u
For an audio guide to help with pronunciation of the sounds, you can search ‘Ruth Miskin phonics sounds’ on YouTube or follow this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkXcabDUg7Q
Terms We Use With the Children
Fred Talk – Saying the sounds separately in a word before blending them together to read the word (Fred is a toy frog who can only talk in sounds e.g sh-o-p)
Special Friends – Letters that go together to make a new sound by forming digraphs (sh, ch, ai, oo) or trigraphs (igh)
Split digraphs – We say “Where’s my friend? He’s on the end!” to show, for example, that the digraph a-e is split but still works together making the word ‘cake’ or that i-e is making the word ‘like’
Bouncy sounds - b c k d g h j p qu t w x y ch a e i o u
Stretchy sounds - f l m n r s v z sh th ng nk ay ee igh ow
Buttons and Swipes – these are used to help to read and write words by showing the single sounds with a button and a special friend with a swipe. See below for an example of what this looks like.
In the Summer Term of Year 1, there is a National Phonics Screening Test. More information can be found here:
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/at-school/assessment-at-primary-school/phonics-screening-check/
Documents
Parent Phonics.pdf A copy of the above information
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