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Looking for poster with phonemes/graphemes combinations

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Arkadia · 01/10/2017 18:09

Last year mrz sent me a link to a nice poster with many (all?) grapheme-phonemes combinations. I have been looking all over, but I cannot find it. Can anyone help out?
What I mean is something like:
the -ee- sound can be spelt ee, ie, e, ey, e-e
the "ae" sound can be spelt a-e, ay, ai, ea
and so on ad infinitum...
Even Google has failed me (or more likely I have failed Google...)

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AnonymousTomato · 01/10/2017 18:14

Like this? Except it’s sparklebox which I wouldn’t advocate using

Looking for poster with phonemes/graphemes combinations
Feenie · 01/10/2017 18:18

alphabeticcodecharts.com

strawberryblondebint · 01/10/2017 18:19

Read write inc sell one as the p5 teacher here has one in his classroom. HTH

Caroian · 01/10/2017 18:20

Was it this one?

alphabeticcodecharts.com/DDD_sound_pic_mini_ACC.pdf

Otherwise have you tried searching for the specific phrase "alphabetic code", as that throws up quite a few more.

strawberryblondebint · 01/10/2017 18:22

This one??

Looking for poster with phonemes/graphemes combinations
Paperclipmover · 01/10/2017 18:45

alphabeticcodecharts.com

I got our charts from Debbie Hepplewhite's Phonic International website above. She does them free to download but I bought a pack of laminated ones for at home and to give away. Ours are A4 but a friend printed out large.

Arkadia · 01/10/2017 19:10

Thanks to all. A lot of great resources. Obviously it was I who failed Google, not viceversa.
In a couple of days we have parents night and want to suggest they get something like that for the classroom (and one for us!!) as, by their own admission, they don't know phonics a great deal.
PS
We are in Scotland, so phonics is not REALLY taught (despite what they say), but my daughter (P4/Y3) is struggling so trying a more unified approach. I
n theory the school is doing phonics, but even by untrained eye it is clear they don't really know it (and one of my DD's teachers - she is on a job share - told me she doesn't know it either...).

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Arkadia · 01/10/2017 19:13

Ok, it seems that it is only 2 resources ;)
In any case it looks to me that alphabetic code charts is what I/we need.
Thanks again!!

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Arkadia · 01/10/2017 19:17

Well, since we are at it, is there a list of non decodable words? I can think of "cupboard", but what are the others?

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Norestformrz · 01/10/2017 19:24

All words are decodable

Norestformrz · 01/10/2017 19:53

This is the one I usually recommend

Looking for poster with phonemes/graphemes combinations
Looking for poster with phonemes/graphemes combinations
Arkadia · 01/10/2017 20:06

Thanks, this is the one I had.

Well, are all words decodable? If they are a one off it doesn't make much sense to decode them. How would you split "cupboard"? Or who/whose/whom? They are not on the list ;)
If you mean that all words have known sounds, well, obviously.

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Norestformrz · 01/10/2017 20:19

we tend to skip the p when we pronounce cupboard but the spelling reflects origins.
Who, whose, and whom have the spelling wh for the sound /h/ and the spelling o for /oo/ as in to, do

Arkadia · 01/10/2017 20:48

But you don't say cu-board, but cu-bod (allow for the lack of phonetic alphabet).
For example break and breakfast are easily decodable, but cupboard is in a different league ;)

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Norestformrz · 02/10/2017 06:04

All words are subject to regional differences in the way they are pronounced. It doesn’t mean they aren’t decodable.

pippitysqueakity · 02/10/2017 06:24

Well, depending where you are in Scotland,(where we absolutely do teach phonics by the way), it is definitely cu-board, don't know anywhere here where the r is ignored...

Arkadia · 02/10/2017 07:48

Board and (cup)board are pronounced very differently, unlike board and, say, (card)board.

In my school they do mention phonics, but do they teach/understand phonics? Not really. To give you an example, we have been given a list of words for this term split into "phonics" and "tricky" words. What I do wonder is what's so tricky about the tricky words... They are just a list of words that even I could easily fit in a pattern, with the exception of... cupboard :D
Anyway, in Scotland, unlike England phonics is not considered THE way, so I don't have grounds to complain, except that my DD is useless at spelling.

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Norestformrz · 02/10/2017 18:12

When we decode we learn to “ normalise” to our own accent.

lolalotta · 02/10/2017 20:25

Following

Ferguson2 · 02/10/2017 21:23

The Oxford Phonics Spelling Dictionary may clarify some things - hopefully even for Scots!

An inexpensive and easy to use book, that can encourage children with reading, spelling and writing, and really help them to understand Phonics, is reviewed in the MN Book Reviews section. Just search ‘Phonics’ and my name.

Arkadia · 02/10/2017 21:47

Ferguson2, no idea where that section is or where/how to search for it, but your resource does look interesting. Had a look on Amazon and had a peek inside. I suspect myself, DD AND the school might benefit from that... I wish I knew a couple of years ago that it existed. I suspect it might have helped ME :D

Thanks.

PS
If you have it close at hand, how do they decode "chocolate" and "cupboard"?

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Norestformrz · 03/10/2017 02:04

It doesn’t. The book Ferguson recommended only offers a limited number of words for each GPC. It’s a basic book written by a Debbie Hepplewhite covering the same information Debbie provides free on the http://alphabeticcodecharts.com. It lists words starting with the same sound rather than the same letter but doesn’t tell you how to break down words for decoding because that depends on how you say the word.

Ch o k / Schwa/ l a t would be a common pronunciation

user789653241 · 03/10/2017 06:24

If you google "word:definition", lots of dictionary sites come up with how to break down and pronounce. And I assume it must be most common pronunciation. Just choose British, not American site.

RapidStreaming · 03/10/2017 06:31

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