Year 1 English Curriculum Evening Phonics Miss Lateef Wednesday 16th November 2016

Objectives for this evening… To have an understanding of what Phonics is and how we teach it. To understand the End of Year Expectations for Year 1. To become familiar with some activities you can support your child with at home.

What is Phonics? Phonics is a way of teaching children to read quickly and skilfully. Children are taught how to: - recognise the sounds that each individual letter makes; - identify the sounds that different combinations of letters make – such as ‘sh’ or ‘oo’; and - blend these sounds together from left to right to make a word - children can then use this knowledge to decode new words that they hear or see. This is the first important step in learning to read. (Letters and Sounds)

Phonic Phases Phase 2 Single letter phonemes • Tricky words – the, to, no, go, I Phase 3 Remaining single letter phonemes • Basic code digraphs - th sh ch ng qu ai ee igh oa oo ar ur or oi ow air ear ure er Tricky words – he, she, we, are, me, be, was, my, you, they, all, her Phase 4 Initial and final consonant blends using Phase 2 and 3 graphemes e.g sl tr nt tw • Tricky words – said, have, like, out, so, do, some, what, come, were, there, when, little, one Phase 5 Alternative code digraphs e.g. • ai - ay / a_e • ee - / ea / e_e • igh – i_e • Tricky words - Mr, Mrs, looked, people, Oh, their, called, asked, could.

Expectations Currently: • Reviewing Phases learnt in Reception, focusing on applying phonic knowledge in reading and writing • Working on Phase 5 - alternative code digraphs By the end of the year most children will: • Recognise Phase 3 and 5 digraphs, and trigraphs when reading • Use increasing phonic knowledge in their writing • Read tricky words from phases 2 – 5 • Spell tricky words from phases 2 - 4

Segmenting and Blending Recognising the letter sounds in a written word, for example c-a-t, and blending them in the order which they are written, to read the word ‘c-a-t’.

Segmenting and Blending c ● a ● t ●

Segmenting and Blending ● ch _____ a ●

Segmenting and Blending p ● sh _____ ee ●●

Tips for Parents Ruth Miskin (Read, Write Inc.) Top Tips for Parents. Useful website with videos to help you support your child with phonics and reading. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ruth+miskins+t op+tips+for+parents

Phonics Teaching We teach Phonics as part of the English Curriculum as a standalone subject three times a week. Children are expected to apply the phonics that they have been taught to spell new words. We do not correct other misspelt words and encourage these words to be spelt phonetically where we adopt a ‘have a go’ attitude! We correct words that the children have been taught to spell (‘tricky words’).

Tricky Words Common or ‘high frequency’ words Not decodable within the phonic phase being taught Learn to read ‘tricky’ words before they learn to spell them correctly in their writing Identify the ‘tricky’ part of the word no said out

Terminology Phoneme Grapheme Digraph Trigraph Segmenting Blending

Reading Longer words Chunking – break down into syllables satisfy  sat|is|fy forget  for|get Snowballing - build up by adding each sound strong  st|str|strong throb  thr|throb|throbbing

Real and alien (pseudo) words The national Phonic Screening Check will take place next year to assess children’s application of the phonic knowledge and skills they have learnt in Reception and in Year 1. The assessment will contain a variety of unseen real and alien (pseudo) words. erg mav poth cloist

‘Tricky Words’ Bingo

The brown dog was barking all night. Digraph Hunt The brown dog was barking all night.

The brown dog was barking all night. Digraph Hunt The brown dog was barking all night.

Phonics Hangman

Sentence and picture matching The boys are walking to school. Mark got wet in the rain.

Phoneme Frame

Activity Now we are going to play a phonics game together! http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html

Now it’s your turn… On each table you will find an activity which supports what we have discussed this evening. Please feel free to move around the activities, completing them at your own pace and level!