Year 1 Phonics Information Meeting Monday 4th February 2019

Meeting objectives A clear understanding of how phonics supports reading and writing. Find out about the phonics screening check. How we teach phonics at Elworth. Supporting your child with phonics at home.

The Alphabetic Code English is an alphabetic language. There are 26 letters of the alphabet. There are approximately 44 phonemes ( speech sounds) There are over 140 graphemes ( letters and letter combinations ) that represent the phonemes. Literacy counts Ltd

How do we teach phonics? Phoneme- grapheme correspondences found in many words. Clear articulation of the phonemes is required by adults and children ( pure sounds).

What we need to understand? Sound/ phonemes are represented by letters/ graphemes. A phoneme can be represented by one or more letters. The same phoneme can be represented in more than one way. The same grapheme may represent more than one phoneme. We use Read, write Inc. to teach your child synthetic phonics.

Set 2 sounds Each speed sound has a simple picture, phrase and action. The children will learn to read and write words containing the new sound using Fred talk. b–l-ow s-l-ow s-n-ow

Set 3 The children will learn alternative graphemes for the same sound.

Terminology Grapheme- letter/ letters that represent a sound Digraph – 2 letters one sound c ow Trigraph – 3 letters one sound l igh t Split digraph – 2 vowels with a consonant between ( magic e) sh ine

Tricky Words Tricky words for reading Tricky words for spelling; children need to be able to read first. Tricky for now words – phonically decodable words containing graphemes not yet encountered by the children. ( literacy counts Ltd)

Year 1 common exception words

What is the Phonics Screening Check? Children in Year 1 throughout the country will be taking part in the phonics screening check during the week beginning 10th June 2019. Children in Year 2 will also take the check if they did not achieve the required result in Year 1 or they have not taken the test before. The phonics screening check is designed to confirm whether individual children have learnt sufficient phonic, decoding and blending skills to an appropriate standard.

What happens during the check? The check contains 40 words. 20 real words/ 20 nonsense words Nonsense words have an alien image next to them

How the check is carried out? Each child will sit 1:1 and read each word aloud to a teacher ( Mrs Buckley) The check takes approximately 10 minutes although all children are different and will complete the check at their own pace. Look at Phonics screening check 2015 together

Phonics Screening Check Results The check is scored against a national standard (32/40 pass rate for previous five years)- the pass rate is not available until all marks are sent nationally to be benchmarked. In 2018, 84% of our year 1 children achieved the pass rate (national average 82%.) If the standard is met the year 1 children will continue with Read, Write, Inc. until they have completed the programme and then phase 6 phonics (letters and sounds.) They will then move on to Spelling shed in year 2. Children who do not achieve the pass rate will continue on the Read, Write, Inc. phonics programme and will receive additional booster/ interventions. They will retake the phonics screening check in Year 2.

Reporting to Parents The results of the phonics screening test will be reported to parents by the end of the summer term.

Reading standards By the beginning of Y2, pupils should be able to read all common graphemes. They should be able to read all unfamiliar words containing these graphemes accurately without undue hesitation... Pupils’ reading of common exception words should be secure. 2014 English PoS

Reading Standard in Year 2

And in Year 2...Writing Standard

Reading in Year 1 Discuss the other strategies for reading. Phonics is very important but not the only strategy.

How will school support your child? Daily 20 minute speed sound lesson Differentiated groups On going assessments every half term/ sounds and tricky words Practice tests with Mrs Buckley Phonics resource pack to be sent home after Easter Year Group spelling lists with words to read/ write Booster groups during the Spring Term

How can you help at home? Phonics Play www.phonicsplay.co.uk ICT games www.ictgames.com/literacy.html •BBC www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/ •Communication 4 all – useful charts www.communication4all.co.uk/http/PhonicsWeb.htm Education City www.educationcity.com