Phonics & Reading in
the Foundation Stage
Tuesday 16th September 2014
Welcome!
Agenda:
• Introduction
• ‘Letters and Sounds’ and Jolly
Phonics
• Beginning the reading experience
• Reading at school
• Reading at home
• Arrangements for reading books
‘Letters and Sounds’
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A government document.
Specific sequence of letters.
Phases 1-6 (Nursery-Year2).
Games, including a variety of focused
speaking and listening activities.
• Key words – blending and segmenting.
Jolly Phonics
• Tool that helps us to teach the
children letter sounds in a fun
interactive way, taking into account
all learners.
The Phonics Phases
• Phase 1 – Tuning in. listening to and
noticing the differences in sounds.
(Nursery)
• Phases 2-6 – hearing, saying, reading and
writing sounds in words to read and write
and write sentences and more! Learn 44
phonemes and the names of each letter
(Reception-Year2)
A Phase 1 game!
• Teddy is Lost in the Jungle
Blending
Recognising the letter sounds in a
written word, for example
c-u-p
and merging or ‘blending’ them in the
order in which they are written to
say the word ‘cup’
A Blending game
The Buried Treasure game
Segmenting
• ‘Chopping Up’ the word to spell it out.
• The opposite of blending.
• Identifying the individual sounds in a
spoken word (e.g. h-i-m , ch-i-ck) and
writing down letters for each sound
to form the word ‘him’ and ‘chick’
A Segmenting game
• http://www.ictgames.com/foamPhone
mes/index.html
Where it gets tricky!
The Tricky/ Camera words
the
go
I
to
no
into
Beginning the reading
experience
AIM: to enable children to become
confident, independent and
enthusiastic readers.
The Ingredients for a
good reader!
Reading
(Phonics & sight words)
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Understanding
(Comprehension)
Beginning the reading
experience
• The importance of picture books.
• Developing an interest in books –
enjoying sharing and listening to
stories and visiting the library.
Reading at School
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Why we use ‘Big books’
1 to 1 reading.
Phonics sessions and booklets
Guided reading
Cross-curricular links
Reading at home
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Enjoy it!
Reading in the environment.
Speaking & listening.
Discuss the story and looking at the
pictures – they tell the story too!
• Read alongside your child.
• Allow your child to choose a subject
matter they are interested in
(fiction/ non-fiction/ magazines).
Arrangements for
changing reading books
• Your child will be heard reading as
often as possible in school.
• Your child will need to bring their
book and book bag back every day.
• Please make a note of how well your
child read with you at home.
• Key word bookmarks.
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The Reading Diary & Phonics book.
Thank you for coming tonight!
Please feel free to look at our
resources!