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Learning to Read
Using
Synthetic PhonicsYour
School Logo
Here
Introducing…
• Joe Blogs• Names here.
Something to think about!
More than any other subject or skill, our children’s futures are all but determined by how well they learn to read.
Children of the Code 2005
Something to think about!
Statistically, more American children suffer long-term life-harm from the process of learning to read than from parental abuse, accidents, and all other childhood diseases and disorders combined.
Children of the Code 2005
In purely economic terms, reading related difficulties cost the U.S. more than the war on terrorism, crime, and drugs combined.
Children of the Code 2005
Something to think about!
What’s Happening?
• A good, hard look at literacy rates world wide.
• An acknowledgement that there needs to be improvement.
• A return to evidence based decision making in schools.
• A back to the “New Basics” way of teaching beginning reading.
Teaching Reading
• We recognise that the teaching of reading has attracted the interest of the media in recent times.
• Synthetic phonics is no fad. It is based on findings of evidence-based research about how children best learn to read.
• Every school in England and Wales now needs to teach reading with Synthetic Phonics.
What is synthetic phonics?
This is a method that teaches children how spoken words are composed of sounds called phonemes and, how the letters in words correspond to those phonemes.
Reading
The process of reading involves 'decoding' words into separate phonemes, so that words can be read.
We call this blending of sounds ‘MAKING”‘MAKING”
Writing and Spelling
The process of writing or spelling involves ‘encoding’. Listening for each phoneme in a word and representing it with a letter(s).
This segmenting of words is called ‘BREAKING’‘BREAKING’.
Is Synthetic Phonics a Fad?
No! It has been heavily researched.
Some studies tracked student achievement for as long as 7 years.
The Rose Review
Department for Education and Skills
Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading
Final Report, Jim Rose, March 2006
What were the Recommendations?
The review states:• English is a difficult language to learn to
read.• We have 44 sounds but only 26 letters to
make these sounds• Schools need to teach how to make these
sounds • They need to do this with synthetic phonics • We need to teach spelling alongside reading
Let’s recap, so we can do a bit of learning!
Synthetic Phonics – What’s it mean?
Teaching the sounds of the English language and how these sounds (phonemes) can be written as letters.
Fast - Efficient - Effective
A group of letters is introduced at a time.
s a t p i n m d
Fast?
That many letters? Why?
How many words can you make with these letters?
s a t p i n m d
So…how many could you make?So…how many could you make?
Wow! That’s a lot for a week at school!
Synthetic Phonics
After learning how to recognise and pronounce each of the phonemes, your child will learn to ‘sound out’ simple words and to blend the phonemes together to read these words.
Synthetic Phonics
At first we will concentrate on simple sound to letter correspondence.
This is when a phoneme is represented by a single letter as in the
word /m/ /a/ /t/.
Fast!
Synthetic Phonics
Then we will concentrate the more difficult code such as one phoneme represented by 2 letters.
sh ch qu ck ng
Efficient!
Synthetic Phonics
When that is mastered, your child will learn the more advanced code.
This is when a single
phoneme can be represented by many letters.
Effective!
Here is an example.
a - paperay – playey - hey
a-e – spadeeigh – eight
ei – as in veinai – as in plain
But there are some irregular, tricky words!
The camera word• We need to learn these my heart • Not only are they high frequency but
are also difficult to decode
How can you help? By pronouncing the phonemes in the correct
way. See: www.getreadingright.com/Pronouncephonemes.htm
By helping your child with “MAKE and BREAK’ activities at home.
By reading quality synthetic phonics home readers every night.
By filling in the Home Reading Journal every night
What your child will be learning this year
s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r
h b f ff l ll ssj v w x y z zz qu VCC/CCVC/CVCC
sh ch th ng
Term 1 & 2
Alongside 36 camera words
What your child will be learning this year
ee ea y ei igh y ie i_eo oa ow o_ea ai ay a_e
oo ew ue u_e
Term 3
Alongside 36 camera words