Phonics Across the School

Today in Māhutonga Matariki we started our morning rotations. From Tuesday through Friday, each base group visits each of the four teachers in the morning to practice key literacy skills. Spelling with Nic, Typing with Jenny, Te Reo Māori with John and Handwriting/Phonics with Nik.

Today we had an introduction to phonics session. Some of us were very familiar with phonics. Some of us had no clue what it was!

We discussed what phonemes and graphemes are. We practiced listening & dictation, adding phoneme lines to words and segmenting/blending words with the 'robot.'

We are aiming for consistency in our phonics teaching and learning! As senior students, we want to be able to visit Autahi and Tautoru to help with their learning in phonics and reading. Embedding common phonics language across the school will help us towards achieving this goal.

Phonics in Autahi

Buddy reading in Autahi

We already help a lot with reading. Equipped with phonics in our toolkit we'll be even more effective.

Please ask us about phonics at home!