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Phonics Helping Your Child Learn: Ms Christabel Attard Complementary Teacher

This document provides information to help parents teach their children phonics. It outlines 5 basic phonics skills: letter formation, letter sounds, blending, identifying sounds in words, and tricky words. It explains the difference between letter sounds and names. It also describes phonological awareness activities like rhyming and syllable clapping. Finally, it discusses next steps like blending simple words and introducing tricky words that cannot be decoded with phonics. The overall goal is to help children learn to read using systematic phonics instruction.

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Phonics Helping Your Child Learn: Ms Christabel Attard Complementary Teacher

This document provides information to help parents teach their children phonics. It outlines 5 basic phonics skills: letter formation, letter sounds, blending, identifying sounds in words, and tricky words. It explains the difference between letter sounds and names. It also describes phonological awareness activities like rhyming and syllable clapping. Finally, it discusses next steps like blending simple words and introducing tricky words that cannot be decoded with phonics. The overall goal is to help children learn to read using systematic phonics instruction.

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Phonics

Helping your child learn

Ms Christabel Attard
Complementary Teacher
a
x
a
Maltese English

Letter name – a Letter name – a

Letter sound – a Letter sound – apple

If I say the sound /a/ it is


the wrong sound because
/a/ is for umbrella
x
Maltese English

Letter name – x Letter name – x

Letter sound – x Letter sound – box

If I say the sound /x/ it is


the wrong sound because
/x/ is written sh as in fish
5 Basic Skills

1. Letter formation

2. Learning the letter sounds

3. Blending

4. Identifying sounds in words

5. Tricky words
Letter Formation

It is important not to check the end result


only, but the process.
Letter sounds

It is important that we all use the


same language – at home and at
school.

Also remember that letter sounds are


different than letter names.
Phonological Awareness
 The understanding that spoken
language is made up of individual
and separate sounds.

Every sound is called a phoneme.


Sometimes a sound is represented
by more than one letter and is called
a grapheme.
The 44 phonemes
/b/ /d/ /f/ /g/ /h/ /j/ /k/ /l/ /m/ /n/ /ng/

/p/ /r/ /s/ /t/ /v/ /w/ /y/ /z/ /th/ /th/ /ch/

/sh/ /zh/ /a/ /e/ /i/ /o/ /u/ /ae/ /ee/ /ie/ /oe/

/ue/ /oo/ /ar/ /ur/ /au/ /er/ /ow/ /oi/ /air/ /ear/ /ure/
Letter Sounds

Group 1
A cat is on a mat.
Use phonics for reading purposes.
/c//a//t/ - cat
A cat is on a mat.
When writing it is important to use
letter names – cat.

Common mistakes
kat, fix
Phonological Awareness
Activities
1. Oral Rhyming (cat rat sat)
Read poetry and other rhyming books. (Humpty
Dumpty) When reading a familiar rhyme, stop before a
rhyming word and ask your child to say the word.

2. Syllable awareness in spoken words


Clap parts of words. Start with your child’s name.

3. Phonemic awareness (an essential element)


Individual sounds in spoken words is a part of
phonological awareness.
Next steps …

• Children then begin to blend for


reading.
• Starting with simple VC (vowel
consonant) words - at, it, is
• and then to CVC (consonant vowel
consonant) words - dog, cat, man
Blending

• Recognise and say the letter


sounds in a written word, for
example:
s-a-t
by merging or ‘blending’ them in
the order in which they are written
to pronounce the word ‘sat’.
s a t i p n
/ai / Words
Tricky words

Words that
cannot be
decoded using
phonics.
Look, say, cover, write and check
basic skills

help us identify strengths and


weaknesses

structure a tailored programme


References
jollylearning.co.uk

www.phonicsfun.co.uk

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