Year 1 Phonics Workshop

Aims of today’s session To give a brief outline of what phonics is To inform and explain the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check To give ideas on how you can help your child at home

Phonic terms your child will learn at school Phonemes: The smallest units of sound that are found within a word e.g. c Grapheme: The spelling of the sound e.g. th Diagraph: Two letters that make one sound when read e.g. ai Trigraphs: Three letters that make one sound e.g. igh CVC: Stands for consonant, vowel, consonant (cat) Segmenting is breaking up a word into its sounds (c-a-t) Blending: Putting the sounds together to read a word (c-a-t is cat) Tricky words: Words that cannot easily be decoded e.g. the, said and

Why phonics? Needed for reading and writing 26 letters in the alphabet but there are 44 sounds (5 vowels) A phoneme can be represented by one or more letters e.g. c, sh, igh The same phoneme can be spelt in more than one way e.g. rain, may, lake The same spelling may represent more than one phoneme e.g. ea in mean, deaf

Phases 1-6 Phase 1: phonological awareness (ongoing) Phase 2: s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss Phase 3: j, v, w, x, y, z, qu, sh, ch, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er Phase 4: Focus on applying the sounds. (No new sounds are taught here) Phase 5: Alternative spellings of sounds such as ay, ie, ea etc Phase 6: spelling (year 2) By the end of Year 1 the national average is Phase 5. The national average for Year 2 is Phase 6.

Phoneme Frames Great for learning sounds and how to apply them Help with spellings cat fish night cake

Phoneme frames activity brute duck fill blackstrike

Nonsense words fotblan herksgeck veenquorg flarmvoisk quighzale

Year 1 Phonics Screening Check A national statutory assessment for all children in Year 1 Takes place during W/B 13 th June 2016 Phonics check is designed to confirm whether children have learnt phonics decoding to an appropriate standard – it’s not a reading test Administered in a quiet room/area 1-1 with the class teacher

Phonics Screening Check The Phonics Screening Check comprises of a list of 40 words The list is a combination of both real words and pseudo- words – 20 of each Using pseudo- words allows this assessment to focus purely on decoding using phonics Pseudo- words shown with pictures of imaginary creatures next to them

Phonic assessment

Is there anything you can do at home? yes

When spelling, encourage your child to think about what “looks right”. Have fun trying out different options…wipe clean whiteboards are good for trying out spellings. tray trai rain rayn boil boyl boy boi throat throwt snow snoa

Final thought If parents engage with their children's education, the attainment of the child will increase by 15% no matter what the social background of the family. - Professor Charles Desforges