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How we teach phonics at Red Oaks Primary School

Phonics and reading presentation 2024
Many thanks for those that could attend the phonics workshop today (Sept24). We hope you found it useful. There will be additional training on the importance of 'play' in October. We hope this PPT is of use if you were unable to attend . We arehappy to run again at another time if there is enough interest or meet people after school. WeI understand many of you have work commitments so we have a collection of resources we will distribute for those unable to attend.

Visual Phonic Videos
Phase 2 Phase 3 and Phase 5

Phonics Glossary
blend	to draw individual sounds together to pronounce a word, e.g. s-n-a-p, blended together, reads snap
cluster	two (or three) letters making two (or three) sounds, e.g. the first three letters of 'straight' are a consonant cluster
digraph	two letters making one sound, e.g. sh, ch, th, ph.
Trigraph	three letters making one sound, e.g. air, igh, ure.
vowel digraphs	two vowels which, together, make one sound, e.g. ai, oo
split digraph	two letters, split, making one sound, e.g. a-e as in make or i-e in site
grapheme	a letter or a group of letters representing one sound, e.g. sh, ch, igh, ough (as in 'though')
grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPC)	the relationship between sounds and the letters which represent those sounds; also known as 'letter-sound correspondences'
mnemonic	a device for memorising and recalling something, such as a snake shaped like the letter 'S'
phoneme	the smallest single identifiable sound, e.g. the letters 'sh' represent just one sound, but 'sp' represents two (/s/ and /p/)
segment (vb)	to split up a word into its individual phonemes in order to spell it, e.g. the word 'cat' has three phonemes: /c/, /a/, /t/
VC, CVC, CCVC	the abbreviations for vowel-consonant, consonant-vowel-consonant, consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant, and used to describe the order of letters in words, e.g. am, Sam, slam