PHONICS SEGMENTS (PART 2)

Phonics Segments (Part 2) consists of four short audio-visual segments that facilitate teachers to draw pupils’ attention to specific phonics sounds. Details of the segments are as follows:

Segment Titles / Format / Phonics Sounds
Bitter Butter / Show / Initial Consonant: b
Vowels: æ, ∂
Pam the Cat / Poem / Vowel: æ
Mr Zee the Beekeeper / Animated Story / Initial Consonant: b
Long Vowel: ee
Jingle Bells / Music Video / Initial Consonant: j

Each segment begins with a demonstration of the specific phonics sounds followed by the main story. At the end of each segment, words that demonstrate the focussed sounds are read out individually. Pupils are encouraged to repeat these words following the examples.

Texts:

Bitter Butter
Betty Botter bought some butter.
But, she said, this butter is bitter.
If I put it in my batter,
It will make my batter bitter
But a bit of better butter
Will make my batter better.
So she bought a bit of better butter,
Better than her bitter butter
And she put it in her batter
And it made her batter better
So ‘twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter. / Pam the Cat
Pam has a cat.
That cat is Sam.
Pam has a hat.
Sam sat on the hat.
Pam has a fan.
Sam had a nap on the fan.
Pam got mad at Sam.
“Bad Sam. Keep off my hat and fan.
You can nap on my lap.”

Mr Zee the Beekeeper

Mr Zee is a beekeeper.
He keeps bees in beehives.
The bees fly free
And buzz under a tree.
They buzz around the flowers
And dance in the breeze.
The busy bees make plenty of
Sweet honey for Mr Zee. / Jingle Bells
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh what fun, see Jack and Jill
Juggling all the way, hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh what fun, see Jack and Jill
Juggling all the way.

If you would like to find out more about how to teach phonics in classrooms, please refer to the programmes, Phonics Programme for Teachers Part 1 & 2 and the interactive CD-Roms, Phonics Multimedia Resource Pack produced by the Educational Television Section.