4. Background
English
• Difficult language to learn
• Historically comes from various civilisations and
languages
• Made up of 44 sounds (phonemes)
As a comparison:
• Spanish - 24 sounds
• Italian – 27 sounds
• Finnish – 21 sounds
5. Technical Language
• Alphabet (vowels and consonants)
• Phonemes
• Graphemes
• Digraphs
• Trigraphs
• Vowel
• Consonant
• Blending (covered later in How We Teach)
• Segmenting (covered later in How We Teach)
6. Technical Language
Alphabet - 26 letters
Vowels
• a
• e
• i
• o
• u
Consonants
• b
• c
• d
• f
• g
• h
• j
• k
• l
• m
• n
• p
• q
• r
• s
• t
• v
• w
• x
• y
• z
10. Technical Language
Graphemes
• Written sounds
• Far more than the 44 phonemes
• Split into 4 types
• Single graphemes
• Digraphs (split digraphs)
• Trigraphs
• Quadgraphs
17. Phonics in P1
• An explanation of how phonics is taught
in P1 and how you can support your
child at home.
18. Phase 1
Phase One of Letters and Sounds concentrates on developing
children's speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for the
phonic work which starts in Phase 2. The emphasis during Phase 1 is to
get children attuned to the sounds around them and ready to begin
developing oral blending and segmenting skills.
Phase 1 contains three strands: Tuning in to sounds (auditory
discrimination), Listening and remembering sounds (auditory memory
and sequencing) and Talking about sounds (developing vocabulary and
language comprehension).
Useful website for phase 1 games:
http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-1-games.html
19. Phase 2
In Phase 2, letters and their phonemes are introduced one at a time. A
set of letters is taught each week, in the following sequence:
Set 1: s, a, t, p
Set 2: i, n, m, d
Set 3: g, o, c, k
Set 4: ck, e, u, r
Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss
Hear it and say it, see it and say it, say it and write it
21. Blending and Segmenting
The children will begin to learn to blend and
segment to begin reading and spelling. This will
begin with simple words.
Words using set 1
at sat pat tap sap
Words using set 1 and 2
(+i) (+n) (+m) (+d)
it an am dad
is in man sad
sit nip mat dim
sat pan map din
pit pin Pam did
pip tan Tim Sid
sip nap Sam and
tip tin dip
22. Tricky Words
Alongside this children are introduced to tricky words.
These are the words that are irregular words. That
means that phonics cannot be applied to the reading
and spelling of these words.
The tricky words introduced in phase 2 are:
to the no go I
26. Phase 3
By the time they reach Phase 3, children will already
be able to blend and segment words containing the
19 letters taught in Phase 2.
Over the twelve weeks which Phase 3 is expected to
last, twenty-five new graphemes are introduced (one
at a time).
Set 6: j, v, w, x
Set 7: y, z, zz, qu
Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng
Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi,
ear, air, ure, er
27. Phase 3
• Tricky words:
• we me be was no go
• my you they her all are
29. P2 Phonics Vocabulary
Phoneme – A unit of sound
Digraph – A phoneme made up of two letters
Trigraph – A phoneme made up of three letters
Quadgraph – A phoneme made up of four letters
Grapheme – The written phoneme
Blending – Strategy used to read (sound it out and
say the word)
Segmenting – Strategy used to spell (say the word
and sound it out)
30. A P2 Phonics Lesson
Phonics – ‘ai’
train rain chain grain
drain paint Spain
wait fail waist
Other graphemes
ay a_e
clay
made
tray
spade
display
mane
day
tame
31. A P2 Phonics Lesson
Phonics – ‘ai’
train rain chain grain
drain paint Spain
wait fail waist
Other graphemes
ay a_e
clay
made
tray
spade
display
mane
day
tame
32. A P2 Phonics Lesson
Phonics – ‘ai’
Other graphemes
ay a_e
clay
made
tray
spade
display
mane
day
tame
33. A P2 Phonics Lesson
Phonics – ‘ai’
chain
Other graphemes
ay a_e
clay
made
tray
spade
display
mane
day
tame
waist
34. A P2 Phonics Lesson
Graphemes we already know
ar ch er
sh ck th
35. A P2 Phonics Lesson
High Frequency and Tricky Words
said when that called was
she we me my went
her
38. Technical Language
Word Types
• Verb – action word
• Noun – person, place or object
• Adjective – describing word
• Adverb – describes a verb
39. Suffixes
Suffix
• ed (jump – jumped)
• ing (skip – skipping)
• er (tall – taller)
• est (small – smallest)
• s/es (chair – chairs)
• ly (slow – slowly)
• y (rock – rocky)
• ness (happy – happiness)
• ment (enjoy – enjoyment)
• ful (play – playful)
• less (pain – painless)
• en (flat – flatten)
Word Type
• verbs
• verbs
• adjectives
• adjectives
• nouns
• adjective to an adverb
• noun to a adjective
• adjective to a noun
• verb to a noun
• verb to an adjective
• noun to an adjective
• noun to a verb
40. Tenses and Plurals
Regular verbs
• play - playing/played
Irregular verbs
• run - running/ran
• go - going/went
Regular verbs
• shoe - shoes
Irregular verbs
• child - children
• sheep - sheep
41. Polysyllabic Words
Polysyllabic - more than one syllable
• fishfinger
• cupboard
• clingfilm
• Springboard
• nightmare
• enormous
• homeless
• fantastic
42. Apostrophes
Possession
• That pen is Mr Dave’s pen.
• That iPad is your Dad’s iPad.
• Please get in your Mum’s shiny car.
Omission/Contraction
• do not – don’t
• we are – we’re
• should not – shouldn’t