Transition to Year 1

Aims Transition Reading Phonics screening Spelling Handwriting Home Learning Questions

The children would like to say a few words…

Transition

A smooth transition 6 weeks transition Learning through play Focus group English, Maths and topic work Phonics 1 week assessment then into groups

Learning through play Creative area Writing area Maths challenge Role-play Book Corner Small world Fingers and thumbs Investigation area

Reading

Daily phonics sessions Flashcards Teaching of new phonemes Reading the sounds in words Writing the grapheme Writing words with the grapheme Writing words in sentences

Definitions CVC words are made up of single letter sounds. c-a-t d-o-g m-a-t b-e-d Blending and segmenting – splitting the words into their sounds and blending to read the unfamiliar word. n- igh-t t-r-ai-n sh-ee-p Phoneme – the sound Grapheme – the written representation of the sound

Phonics Screening

Year 1 Phonics Screening

Spellings

Spellings Once every two weeks on Friday your child will bring home a list of words – predominantly High frequency words or their focus sound in phonics. They will be tested in school in a random order and in the context of a sentence and then correct spellings will be highlighted on their list so that you can see how many were correct. A lot of the HFW cannot always be sounded out when spelling and therefore need to be recognised and learnt by sight.

Handwriting

Letter formation Our aim is that the children are correctly forming all letters by the end of Autumn term ready to begin joining in Spring term.

Home Learning

Home Reading

Ice Cream Challenge!

Learning logs

Library

How can you help? Reading regularly at home – Ice Cream Challenge. Reading to your child to inspire a love of books. Letter formation practice/correction. Spellings – read and spell high frequency words. Learning Logs.

Please feel free to catch us at the end of this session.