Phonics

Apart from pre-reading skills taught during your child's Nursery years; Phonics is one of the main strategies in Reception that we use to teach reading.

Throughout the year in phonics we teach children to first identify the phonemes; secondly blend phonemes to read and finally segment words into their phonemes to be able to write.

All phonics lessons last 15 to 20 minutes. Lessons are fast, fun and frequent. Each lesson is made up of four parts.

Revise - revision of the sounds already learnt.
Teach - teach the new sound of the day.
Practise - practise reading and/ or spelling the new phoneme/ grapheme.
Apply - play a game or write a new word/ sentence showing application of the new sound learnt.

Phonemes

Words are made up of basic small units of sound called phonemes. Phonics teaches children to be able to listen carefully and identify the phonemes that make up each word. This helps children learn to read and to spell words.

Articulation of phonemes.

The video shows the correct articulation for all phonemes taught.

Grapheme

A grapheme is the phoneme correspondence. This simply mean the way in which a phonemes is written.

For example, the phoneme 'c' can be written as the grapheme c, k or ck.

Letter Formation

Below is a link to the rhymes we use for letter formation when learning to write our sounds.

http://www.thebellbird.cambs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Letter-formation-chart.pdf

Phonics

Phonemes

Articulation of phonemes.

Grapheme

Letter Formation

Fun Phonics - Home Learning

Writing grapheme in a range of materials - foam, sand and glitter are a few examples.

Paint grapheme or CVC words.

Use playdough to make grapheme.