Phonics
Children are taught various strategies to help them learn to read, including phonics (sounds), whole word recognition and picture clues. In reception and Key stage 1 we use the `Twinkl’ programme as a basis. Some words however are more difficult to decode. The children learn these `tricky’ words alongside their phonic activities and we often given them actions to make them easier to remember. Learning these words is essential for fluency in reading and spelling and so they are sent home for practise.
Involvement from home is encouraged right from the start where parents are invited to see how Phonics is taught and how they can help their child by asking questions about the text.
Twinkl phonics
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INformation for Parents
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These are great websites for parents to use at home: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7sW4j8p7k9D_qRRMUsGqyw
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Phonic Knowledge and Skills |
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Level 1 |
Activities are divided into seven aspects, including environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body sounds, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and finally oral blending and segmenting. |
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Level 2 |
Learning 19 letters of the alphabet and one sound for each. Blending sounds together to make words. Segmenting words into their separate sounds. Beginning to read simple captions. |
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Level 3 |
The remaining 7 letters of the alphabet, one sound for each. Graphemes such as ch, oo, th representing the remaining phonemes not covered by single letters. Reading captions, sentences and questions. On completion of this phase children will have learnt the "simple code", i.e. one grapheme for one phoneme for each phoneme in the English language. |
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Level 4 |
No new grapheme-phoneme correspondences are taught in this phase. Children learn to blend and segment longer words with adjacent consonants, e.g. swim, jump, and clap. |
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Level 5 |
Now we move on to the "complex code". Children learn more graphemes for the phonemes which they already know, plus different ways of pronouncing the graphemes they already know. |
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Level 6 |
Working on spelling, including prefixes and suffixes, doubling and dropping letters etc. |