Year 1 Phonics Screening 11th June –15 th June 2018 elk trains vap jound strabe finger

What is Phonics Screening? The phonics screening is a quick and easy check to see where your child is with their phonological knowledge. It is statutory – All children in Year 1 must take part. Your child’s class teacher will be the adult leading the check.

What does the screening consist of? Your child’s class teacher will work 1:1 with your child to complete the check. There is no time limit. Children will be asked to read 40 words both real and nonsense words, through sounding and blending or by sight. The threshold mark will not be published until the week after the check has been administered. The results will be used to inform the teachers future planning. You will be informed of your child’s mark in their end of year report.

What does the check look like?

Reporting to Parents You will receive a Phonics Screening Check Pupils Report with your child’s annual end of year report. If your child has not reached the expected level, they will re-take the check in Year 2. They will receive support in Phonics throughout Year 2.

Useful Websites and Resources Letters and Sounds- www.letters-andsounds.com Phonics Play – www.phonicsplay.co.uk BBC Bitesize – www.bbc.co.uk › Home › Literacy www.familylearning.org.uk/phonics_games.ht ml - Choose DJ Cow and generate a wordsearch using specific sounds http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html Visit the Reception pages of the school website

Please don’t you or your children panic or worry!

Teaching Phonics Year 1

The importance of Phonics A good knowledge of Phonics helps children to read unknown words. It helps them to spell words they do not know.

Phonics as The Downley School We teach Phonics for 30 minutes everyday in Year 1. The children learn their Phonics in fast paced lessons as a whole class. The children’s phonics knowledge is reinforced during our 1:1 reading sessions. Interventions are provided for the children who need further support with previous phases. We use the Letters and Sounds programme.

Phase 2 Children learn their first 19 phonemes: Set 1: s a t p Set 2: i n m d Set 3: g o c k Set 4: ck (as in duck) e u r Set 5: h b l f ff (as in puff) ll (as in hill) ss (as in hiss) They use these phonemes to read and spell simple “consonant- vowel-consonant” (CVC) words: sat, tap, dig, duck, rug, puff, hill, hiss

Phase 3 They learn another 26 phonemes: j, v, w, x, y, z zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure and er They use these phonemes (and the ones from Phase 2) to read and spell words: chip, shop, thin, ring, pain, feet, night, boat, boot

Saying the Correct Sounds We encourage the children to articulate the sounds clearly and correctly. It is important they do not shout or mispronounce the sounds. To help your child say the correct sounds encourage them to listen to Jolly Phonics on YouTube.

Jolly Phonics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGpsVmWLRFA (Phase 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmRqONZn95 4 (Phase 3)

Phase 4 Phase 4 doesn’t introduce any new phonemes. It focuses on reading and spelling longer words with the phonemes they already know. These words have adjacent consonants at the beginning: spot, trip, clap, green, clown. Or at the end: tent, mend, damp, burnt.

Phase 5 The children learn new graphemes for reading: ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e and u-e The most important to remember is the split diagraphs: a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e and u-e

Split Diagraphs They are cheeky letters that wont stop talking and have to be split up. ie, ee, oe, ue, ae e.g. pie- pine toe- tone

Phase 5- Alternative pronunciations Children learn alternative pronunciations of graphemes (the same grapheme can represent more than one phoneme): fin/find, cat/cent, got/giant, cow/blow, tie/field, eat/bread, hat/what, yes/by/very, chin/school/chef, out/shoulder/could/you Encourage your child to check if they make sense in a sentence. e.g. I want to find a treasure chest.

How to help at home Read daily if possible Recap on the phonic sounds (especially those they find tricky) daily if possible Make learning phonics fun!

Finding Words/ Sentences http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-3- resources.html (Free) http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ (£12 for the year) Create your own using web searches.

Games (Recapping sounds) Flashcards- time Speed trial- sound mats Fastest finger

Flashcards (Phonicsplay) https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member- only/Flashcards.html

Games (Reading words) Hunts Bowling Beat your partner Pairs

Games (Reading words) train pain drain aim strain chain paint nail Noughts and crosses train pain drain aim strain chain paint nail Spain

Games (Reading words) Shoot and score Call My Bluff

Games (Reading words) Buried Treasure

Alien Words

Useful websites http://mrthorne.com/home/phonics/geraldine-the-giraffe/ http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/ https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_d ata/file/324044/STA147079e.pdf

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