Course objectives

• recognise the basic sounds in the English

language

• demonstrate the different sounds in the

English language (through songs)

• understand onset and rime to produce words

• explore different activities to teach blending

and segmenting
Let’s Test Our
Knowledge
on
CONSONANT
• A consonant is a
speech sound that is
not a vowel.
• It also refers to letters
of the alphabet that
represent
those sounds.
 VOWEL
• In the phonetic definition, a vowel is a
sound.
 DIGRAPH
• A digraph is two letters that make one
sound.
• The digraph can be made up of vowels
or consonants.
 DIPTHONG
• a sound formed by the combination of two
vowels in a single syllable
 What is Word Decoding?
Word decoding is the ability to apply the
knowledge of letter-sound relationship
(phonics), including the knowledge of
letter patterns (eg: cvc, cvcc, ccvc) in order
to correctly pronounce written words.

The 2 techniques are:

Blending and Segmenting of sounds
 Blending
The ability to combine separate sounds
to make up a word.

/m/ /æ/ /n/ man

 Segmenting
The ability to hear a word and identify the
individual sounds that make up a word.

- listen to the word…

- segment the sounds…

man /m/ / æ / /n/

 Blending
*Onset-Rime

The "onset" is the initial phonological

unit of any word (e.g. c in cat) and the
term "rime" refers to the string of letters
that follow, usually a vowel and final
consonants (e.g. at in cat).
Tips:
Word families are commonly used in teaching
phonics through onset-rime technique. It
encourages children to spell better as they already
know how to spell and sound words within the
same family.

Examples:
ab - lab, cab, snab, crab ake - cake, make, Jake

Word families
For example if they know how to spell bake then
they can remember the chunk (ake) to spell rake.
Only replace the first letter.
Word Family
Warmer
Blending Lesson
Number Game

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Review Blends
Review Blends
Review Blends
Review Blends
Word Meaning
Sentence Reading

The cat sat on a hat.

Onset Rime
Onset Rime
Arm Blending
Blending Slide
Let us see how it works!
Building Word Families

ay
pray
tray
ai spray
pain
train
paint
o-e
bone
cone
home
Slider Cards
Word Wheels
Button Words
Playing with word families
 Identify the word family in this rhyme.

Jake baked a red cake

For his friend Blake
Who lived by the lake.
He tripped over a snake
Who was rubber and fake
So now he has to make
A new cake for Blake.
 ‘ake’
By Mrs. Alphabet

Jake baked a red cake

For his friend Blake
Who lived by the lake.
He tripped over a snake
Who was rubber and fake
So now he has to make
A new cake for Blake.
 Blending
*Body Coda
When we combine the onset with the vowel, we
get the body of a syllable. Everything after the
body is the
. coda.

Examples:
Word Body Coda
sit si t
sweet swee t
book boo k
Body Coda

ne t

pa n
 Phoneme Segmentation
The ability to hear a word and identify the individual sounds that make up a word.
 Elkonin Boxes

How to use Elkonin Boxes?

1. Pronounce a the target word slowly, stretching it out by sound.
(e.g.: /ʃ/ /i:/ /p/)
2. Ask the child to repeat the word.
3. Have the child count the number of phonemes in the word.
4. For example, sheep has three phonemes and will use three boxes.
/ʃ/, /i:/, /p/
5. Direct the child to slide a token in each cell of the Elkonin box .
Worksheet 6
 Word Shapes

*Construct 4 & 5
 Sight Words

http://www.sightwordsgame.com/sightwordgames/bingo/
SuperSpeed 100
Jolly Phonics