Year 1 Phonics Screening Check Parent Workshop Miss Karpel and Mrs Tribble 2016

Parent Workshop To familiarise you with some of the terminology used in our phonics sessions. To talk to you about how the phonics check will be administered and what it looks like. To provide you with some useful websites.

Phonics at a glance! It is the vital initial step in teaching children to read but it is far from the whole picture. Shared reading Group reading Reading aloud skills of segmentation and blending + knowledge of the alphabetic code

What does phonics consist of? Identifying sounds in spoken words Recognising the common spellings of each phoneme. Blending phonemes into words for reading. Segmenting words into phonemes for spelling.

Definitions A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word. A grapheme Letter(s) representing a phoneme. t ai igh

A phoneme can be represented/spelled in more than one way cat, kennel, chick The same grapheme may represent more than one phoneme me, met.

Blending: Recognising the letter-sounds in a written word, for example c-u-p. Merging or synthesising them in the order in which they are written to pronounce the word ‘cup’.

Segmenting: Identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word (eg h-i-m). and writing down or manipulating the letters for each sound to form the word ‘him’.

Digraph: Two letters, which make one sound. A consonant digraph contains 2 consonants: shckthll A vowel digraph contains at least one vowel: ai ee ar oy Trigraph: Three letters, which make one sound - igh (high) ear (hear) air (hair)

Split digraph: A digraph in which the two letters are not adjacent – e.g. Make

What’s the screening check all about? Every Year 1 child in the country will be taking the phonics screening check in June. The aim of the check is to ensure that all children are able to read by the end of Year 2. This ‘midpoint check’ will ensure that we have a clear understanding of what the children need to learn in Year 2.

Example of words that have been in previous checks Real words Alien/nonsense words

Suggestion of games/activities? Little and often is best! Words&Pictures-BBC Schools years Phonics Play-Begin at Phase 3 and work your way up Parents-Oxford Phonics Check Support