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The children are revising the graphemes and phonemes of Phase 5 and are working through Phase 6 of the Letter and Sounds programme.
The children will have already learnt the most frequently occurring grapheme–phoneme correspondences (GPCs) in the English language. They will be able to read many familiar words automatically.
When they come across unfamiliar words they will in many cases be able to decode them quickly and quietly using their well-developed sounding and blending skills. With more complex unfamiliar words they will often be able to decode them by sounding them out.
At this stage children should be able to spell words phonemically although not always correctly. In phase 6 the main aim is for children to become more fluent readers and more accurate spellers.
Phonemes and spelling rules this year
These are the sounds that we shall be revising this year from Phase 5 and looking at alternative pronunciations. We will spell and read words containing these graphemes.
ai -ay eigh -ey / -igh -y / s –ss –se –ce / j ge gi gy / -ue u / oi oy /a a-e -ae -ea / -ie i-e / ce ci cy /-ge -dge /ew u-e eu / ow ou –ough / ee ey / oa ow o / sc –st / -le -el / oo or –our /ea e-e -ie / oe o-e -ough -eau /-al -il / aw au al war quar /
ur ire r / -s –si /-ge ch -tch –ture /ear eer -ere -ier / m mm –mb -mn / ear wor /w wh /-u -ie /sh ch /air -are -ear / k -ck c ch qu / -que u o –ou our / f -ff /ow /-ti -ci -ssi -sci / n -nn kn gn / or ore -our -oor oar /ar a al / ph –gh /g gu -gue gh / r -rr wr rh /aw au al -augh ough
Phase 6
Spelling rules and patterns:
- Past and present tense verbs
- Adding ‘ed’ to make past tense
- w special rules – o after w, (Sounds like an ‘o’ but spelt with an ‘a’
- wallet, watch, wash as examples
- w special – ur/or after w ( sounds like an ‘ur’ but spelt ‘or’
- work,
- v spelling rules (No words end in v)
Suffix rules:
- ‘ing’ suffix,
- er and est suffix
- ful suffix, ly suffix
- ment and ness suffix
- en suffix
- adding suffix y to nouns,
- Plurals – ‘s’ and ‘es’ suffix
- base words spelling strategy including adding other suffixes
- an -e that is part of a split digraph (e.g. hope, safe, use);
- a -y preceded by a consonant (e.g. happy, baby, carry);
- a single consonant letter preceded by a single vowel letter (e.g. hop, red, run).
- mnemonics spelling strategy
- analogy spelling strategy
- their/there/they’re
- they/them
- Compound words, finding and learning the difficult parts of words
- Strategies for spelling multisyllabic words. To learn my word I can listen to how many syllables there are so I can break it into smaller bits to remember (e.g. Sep-tem-ber, ba-by)
- Common prefixes and the effect of them on meaning
- Elisions, sometimes known as contractions, such as I’m, let’s and can’t are usually easy to spell, but children need to know where to put the apostrophe. They should be taught that it marks the place where letters are omitted.
Tricky words
They will also revise the phase 5 ‘tricky’ words – those that cannot be read or spelt using the sounds of the letters.
- Oh, their, people, Mr, Mrs, looked, called, asked, could.
Phase-5-high-frequency-word-mat
Ways you can support your child at home
- Continue to read with them on a regular basis.
Increasing the pace of reading is an important objective. Children should be encouraged to read aloud as well as silently for themselves.
To become successful readers, children must understand what they read. They need to learn a range of comprehension strategies and should be encouraged to reflect upon their own understanding and learning.
Children need to be taught to go beyond literal interpretation and recall, to explore the greater complexities of texts through
inference and deduction.
Over time they need to develop self-regulated comprehension strategies:
activating prior knowledge;
clarifying meanings – with a focus on vocabulary work;
generating questions, interrogating the text;
constructing mental images during reading;
summarising.
- Phonics games will help your child to practice sounding out and spelling words.
Follow the links below to the free phonics games. Your child will have lots of fun while developing their phonic knowledge and skills.
Phase 6 tab:
Phase 5 tab:
From the Kent Trust Website:
http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/kentict/content/games/sillyBull_suffix_v4.html
http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/kentict/content/games/airport_xray.html
http://images.scholastic.co.uk/assets/a/85/9d/lt-phonemes-int-6860.swf
Levels 2 & 3 are equivalent to Phase 6
http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/fishemup2_eng_launcher.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/
Hard and Really Hard levels