Broadoak Primary School Year One Phonics Meeting 2016 ‘Working together to achieve our best’

Aims of the meeting To explore the key components of the six phase teaching programme – ‘Letters and Sounds’ Explain the organisation of phonic sessions in Year One and observe a session in action Provide resource ideas for work with children at home Provide information about the statutory phonic screener that takes place in June each year

Organisation ‘Letters and Sounds’ Taught daily FUN, multi-sensory approach Children work at a phase appropriate to them following teacher assessments Work in groups across Year One classes Have daily phonic sessions at 11.30am

Phonic Challenge Phonics Terminology It is not important to know all the jargon but it is important to try to use the same words your child is being taught at school. Can you match the phonic related words to their definitions? Phonic Challenge

How did you do?

Phonic Steps At first, we introduce the idea that a phoneme is represented by a single letter as in the word /c/ /a/ /t/. (Phase 2) When that’s mastered your child will learn that sometimes one phoneme is represented by two letters (digraph); as in the word /ch/ /o/ /p/ ; where /ch/ is only one phoneme (sound). (Phase 3) Then after that, even though at first it may sound confusing, your child will learn that sometimes a phoneme can be represented many different ways. Like the sound /ay/ in play. (Phase 5)

Phonics Finally your child will learn that sometimes a single (or more) letter may represent more than one phoneme; for example, the ‘o’ in /most/ and the ‘o’ in /hot/ or the ‘ow’ in /wow/ and the ‘ow’ in /tow/.(Phase 5) This can be confusing but with the structure and regularity of letters and sounds almost all children will pick this up.

National Phonic Expectations

Phonic Sessions Introduction - The teacher will explain to the children what they will be learning today and get them enthusiastic and motivated for the session Revisit and review - The children will play a quickfire game to practise something they have learned before and help build their confidence. Teach - The children will be taught a new phoneme/grapheme or a new skill - this will be taught in a fun multisensory way and may well involve: songs, actions, pictures, puppets, writing giant letters in the air. Practise - The children play fast, fun games to practise the new thing they have just learned. Apply - The children will have a quick go at reading or writing sentences that involve the new thing they have just learned. Each of these sections lasts a few minutes at most.

Phase 1 Phase One of Letters and Sounds concentrates on developing children's speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for the phonic work which starts in Phase 2. The emphasis during Phase 1 is to get children attuned to the sounds around them and ready to begin developing oral blending and segmenting skills. Phase 1 is divided into seven aspects. Each aspect contains three strands: Tuning in to sounds (auditory discrimination), Listening and remembering sounds (auditory memory and sequencing) and Talking about sounds (developing vocabulary and language comprehension). Useful website for phase 1 games: http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-1-games.html

Phase 2 Usually six weeks – Jolly phonics To learn the sounds / phonemes below… To blend vc / cvc words To segment vc / cvc words

Phase 3 Up to twelve weeks – (expectation that 80% will leave Reception having completed phase three) Children often need to consolidate this in year one, particularly for spelling To learn the sounds / phonemes from this phase (Mostly represented by more than one letter) Blending and segmenting two syllable words / captions Letter names

Phase 4 Consolidates knowledge of previously introduced GPC’s Introduces adjacent consonants No new GPC’s 4-6 weeks Longer words – cvcc / ccvc

surf beach bucket shell mermaid Sound Buttons Put on the sound buttons to help you read the words… surf beach bucket shell mermaid Now you try…

Phoneme Frames

Phase 5 Introduces new sounds Can you match the sound cards?

Phoneme Spotter ay ai a-e Find all the words that contain the ai / ay / a-e sound. What patterns can you see? Can we create any rules? ay ai a-e

Treasure or Trash? www.phonicsplay.co.uk

Phase 5 Teaches alternative pronunciations for rapid recall which increases fluency.

Alternate phonemes Your child will eventually learn that this phoneme can be written; /ay/ as in the word play /ai/ as in the word rain /a-e/ as in the word spade /ea/ as in the word break /ey/ as in the word hey /eigh/ as in the word eight /a/ as in the word later /ei/ as in the word vein

Phase 6 - Support for Spelling To enable pupils to become fluent and effective writers, competent spellers, needing to spend less time and energy in thinking about spellings and can develop skills of composition, sentence structure and word choice.

Phase 6 Be introduced to the past tense. Investigate how to add prefixes and suffixes An example of this would adding “un” to words at the front and “ed” at the end. Be taught how to spell longer words by breaking this up into syllables (al – to – geth – er) Learn and practise spellings.

Phase 6 1. Syllables - To learn my word I can listen to how many syllables there are so I can break it into smaller bits to remember (e.g. Sep- tem-ber, ba-by) 2. Base words - To learn my word I can find its base word (e.g. Smiling – base smile +ing, e.g. Look + ing) 3. Analogy - To learn my word I can use words that I already know to help me (e.g. could: would, should) 4. Mnemonics - To learn my word I can make up a sentence to help me remember it (e.g. could – O U Lucky Duck; people – people eat orange peel like elephants, because – big elephants can always understand small elephants)

Phonics Screener Statutory phonic screener Takes place in June 2017 Results will be reported to parents

Websites www.phonicsplay.co.uk www.topmarks.co.uk/parents/ten-tips-on-hearing-your-child-read www.oxfordowl.co.uk www.jollylearning.co.uk/parent-teacher-guide www.lancsngfl.co.uk www.phonicshelp.co.uk www.teachfind.co.uk www.beckstone.cumbria.sch.uk www.galacticphonics.co.uk

Reading Daily reading – 10 mins Continue to love reading! Key Word strips / phonic strips Recommended reading lists in collaboration with Urmston Book Shop

Open door policy If at any time you have any questions, worries or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me.