Reception and Year One Phonics Meeting

Todays workshop To share how phonics is taught at Datchet To develop parent confidence in helping their children with phonics and reading To teach the basics of phonics and useful phonics terms To show examples of activities and resources we use to teach phonics To explain the phonics screening test To share websites parent's can use

What is Phonics? Children have 20mins daily discrete phonics lessons; Children are taught to read by breaking down words into separate sounds or ‘phonemes’. They are then taught how to blend these sounds together to read the whole word; There are around 40 different sounds and 140 ways to combine letters to make these sounds

Phoneme/sound- the sound the letter makes e.g a Grapheme/letter – the shape of the letter and its shape e.g. a Digraph – two phonemes that make one sound – e.g ai (rain ) Trigraph – three phonemes that make one sound – e.g igh (night) Split digraph – in written form a digraph split in the middle by a single phoneme e.g a-e make Cvc/cvcc – consonant, vowel, constant Segmenting – how words are broken up into individual sounds e.g. dog d-o-g Blending – how sounds are put together to make a word eg. d-o-g dog Fred fingers – using fingers to highlight individual phonemes in words

How do we teach phonics We look at the sound We say the rhymes ie ar ar start the car We look at words which contain the sound and read them We look at words that we can spell with the sound We play games containing the sounds that we have learnt

When reading a word in phonics we use sound buttons rain

How would you sound out this word using sound buttons? Farmyard Chimpanzee

When writing a word in phonics we use phoneme frames When writing a word in phonics we use phoneme frames. This helps us to learn how to segment the different sounds c oa ch

How would you segment this word? Summer s u mm er

Examples of games we play Whats in the box? – children have to match a picture to a word Stand up if you have a word with the sound/digraph …. Full Circle – children have to change one sound in each word until they are back to the original word Ship, chip, chin, thin, than, can and so on…. Count down – how many words can they read before the timer runs out.

This is how we teach a sound

Phonics Assessment Year 1

What is the phonics assessment? Every Year 1 child in the country will be taking a statutory phonics screening check in the same week. The check is very similar to tasks the children already complete during phonics lessons. The focus of the check is to provide evidence of children’s decoding and blending skills, not to test their vocabulary.

What will the children do? Each check will take 4 to 9 minutes to complete; They will be asked to ‘sound out’ a word and blend the sounds together. e.g. t-r-ai-n, train The check will consist of 40 words and non-words; Children will be told if the word is a real or nonsense/alien word, with a corresponding alien image.

Examples of words

How will it be administered? Mrs Midgley and Ms Powell will conduct all of the screening checks with the children; The children will complete the check one to one in a quiet area of the school; We are not permitted to indicate to the children at the time whether they have correctly sounded out and / or blended the word.

What happens next? If your child’s score falls below the national standard they can re-take the Phonics Screening Check in year 2.

When will it happen? The screening will take in June 2016 It has been designed so that children of all abilities will be able to take part.

How can you help? Encourage them to use their sounds and actions to find the sound they need. Children can practise their phonics by playing games online. Phonics play is particularly good * Buried Treasure * Poopdeck Pirates * Picnic on Pluto

How can you help? REMEMBER: Phonics is not the only way you become a good reader. Continue to read with your child each night and encourage them to: Sound out, re-read to check it makes sense, and use pictures for clues. Ask questions about the book; And most importantly ENJOY READING!

Useful Websites Ruth Miskin http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/home/reading-site/expert-help/ruth-miskins-video-page Phonics Play UN: datchet1 PW: datchet2

Questions?