Year 1 Phonics Screening

What is phonics? Children are taught to read by breaking down words into separate sounds or ‘phonemes’. They are then taught how to blend these sounds together to read the whole word. Children have a 30 minutes phonics lesson each day and they are encouraged to use these strategies to read and write in other lessons. There are around 40 different sounds.

THIS IS NOT A READING TEST What will the children be expected to do? The check is very similar to tasks the children already complete during phonics lessons. Children will be asked to ‘sound out’ a word and blend the sounds together, e.g. d-o-g - dog The focus of the check is to see which sounds the children know and therefore the children will be asked to read made up ‘nonsense’ words. THIS IS NOT A READING TEST

Phonics Phases Phonics is split into six phases. By the end of Year 1, children are expected to be working within Phase Five. .

Phase 3 Phonics (Reception) High Frequency Words will for that now this down then look them too with see Tricky Words he they she all me my we are be her was are you Phase 3 Phonics (Reception) Andy’s Alien words Dar veng Zort jigh Sair quoam Kesar doit Graphemes (sounds) Set 6/7: J, V, x, y, z, zz, qu Ch (chips, chop, such) sh (shop, ship, posh) th (thin, then, thing) ng (ring,sing) ai (rain, pain, train) oo (zoo, boot, moon) ur (nurse, purse, curl) ee (tree, three, week) oo (u) (hook, hood, wool) ow (cow, bow, town) igh (night, fight, light) ar (car, start,market) oi (coin, foil, join) oa (goat, boat, soap) or (fork, born, cork) ear (hear, gear, year) air (fair, hair, pair) ure (sure, pure, secure) er (letter, dinner) High Frequency Words will for that now this down then look them too with see Phase 3 Phonics Tricky Words he they she all me my we are be her was are you High Frequency Words will for that now this down then look them too with see Phase 3 Phonics Tricky Words he they she all me my we are be her was are you High Frequency Words will for that now this down then look them too with see Phase 3 Phonics Tricky Words he they she all me my we are be her was are you High Frequency Words will for that now this down then look them too with see Phase 3 Phonics Tricky Words he they she all me my we are be her was are you High Frequency Words will for that now this down then look them too with see Phase 3 Phonics Tricky Words he they she all me my we are be her was are you Andy’s Alien words Dar veng Zort jigh Sair quoam Kesar doit Andy’s Alien words Dar veng Zort jigh Sair quoam Kesar doit Andy’s Alien words Dar veng Zort jigh Sair quoam Kesar doit Andy’s Alien words Dar veng Zort jigh Sair quoam Kesar doit Andy’s Alien words Dar veng Zort jigh Sair quoam Kesar doit Graphemes (sounds) ai (rain, pain, train) oo (zoo, boot, moon) ur (nurse, purse, curl) ee (tree, three, week) oo (u) (hook, hood, wool) ow (cow, bow, town) igh (night, fight, light) ar (car, start,market) oi (coin, foil, join) oa (goat, boat, soap) or (fork, born, cork) ear (hear, gear, year) air (fair, hair, pair) ure (sure, pure, secure) er (letter, dinner) Graphemes (sounds) ai (rain, pain, train) oo (zoo, boot, moon) ur (nurse, purse, curl) ee (tree, three, week) oo (u) (hook, hood, wool) ow (cow, bow, town) igh (night, fight, light) ar (car, start,market) oi (coin, foil, join) oa (goat, boat, soap) or (fork, born, cork) ear (hear, gear, year) air (fair, hair, pair) ure (sure, pure, secure) er (letter, dinner) Graphemes (sounds) ai (rain, pain, train) oo (zoo, boot, moon) ur (nurse, purse, curl) ee (tree, three, week) oo (u) (hook, hood, wool) ow (cow, bow, town) igh (night, fight, light) ar (car, start,market) oi (coin, foil, join) oa (goat, boat, soap) or (fork, born, cork) ear (hear, gear, year) air (fair, hair, pair) ure (sure, pure, secure) er (letter, dinner) Graphemes (sounds) ai (rain, pain, train) oo (zoo, boot, moon) ur (nurse, purse, curl) ee (tree, three, week) oo (u) (hook, hood, wool) ow (cow, bow, town) igh (night, fight, light) ar (car, start,market) oi (coin, foil, join) oa (goat, boat, soap) or (fork, born, cork) ear (hear, gear, year) air (fair, hair, pair) ure (sure, pure, secure) er (letter, dinner) Graphemes (sounds) ai (rain, pain, train) oo (zoo, boot, moon) ur (nurse, purse, curl) ee (tree, three, week) oo (u) (hook, hood, wool) ow (cow, bow, town) igh (night, fight, light) ar (car, start,market) oi (coin, foil, join) oa (goat, boat, soap) or (fork, born, cork) ear (hear, gear, year) air (fair, hair, pair) ure (sure, pure, secure) er (letter, dinner)

Examples of words from Phase 3 rain tinfoil beard market Phase 3 begins to introduce the children to diagraphs and trigraphs

Examples of Alien words from Phase 3 veng tort jigh zark

Phase 4 Phonics (Reception/Year1) High Frequency Words went it’s From children just help Tricky Words said were have there like little so one do when some out come what Phase 4 Phonics (Reception/Year1) Alien words gax chee plood hish yurk grint koob waiber theest fowd thordon dreet Revisit graphemes (sounds) from Phase 3 and to make longer words cheese crunch toast float thank punch drank burnt starlight spend slipper creep handstand speech glitter brush melting seventh printer sport trench thunder Chester scrunch grass

Examples of words from Phase 4 Phase 4 teaches children how to read and write longer words (polysyllabic words) using phase 3 graphemes and diagraphs. burnt shampoo grinch helpdesk

Examples of alien words from Phase 4 yark grint

Phase 5 Phonics (Year 1/Year2) Graphemes (sounds) Alternative sounds High Frequency Words don’t your old day i’m made by came time make house here about saw Phase 5 Phonics (Year 1/Year2) Tricky Words oh asked their could people very Mr Mrs looked called Andy’s Alien words Bamp spunch Fowsping Kelf Skarb Pronk Shreb glorpid spu Graphemes (sounds) Alternative sounds ay (play, spray) ir (bird, skirt) ew (chew, grew) e_e (Steve, theme) ou (sound, cloud) ue (glue, tissue) oe (tomatoes, goes) i_e (slide, prize) ie (tie, cried) aw (paw, yawn) au (launch, August) o_e (phone, note) ea (steam, bead) wh (which, whisper) ey (money, trolley) u_e (June, flute) oy (toy, royal) ph (dolphin, alphabet) a_e (snake, race) ow (snow, bowl) Phase 5 teaches children the alternative sounds from phase 3. As well as split diagraphs. Graphemes (sounds) Alternative sounds ay (play, spray) ir (bird, skirt) ew (chew, grew) e_e (Steve, theme) ou (sound, cloud) ue (glue, tissue) oe (tomatoes, goes) i_e (slide, prize) ie (tie, cried) aw (paw, yawn) au (launch, August) o_e (phone, note) ea (steam, bead) wh (which, whisper) ey (money, trolley) u_e (June, flute) oy (toy, royal) ph (dolphin, alphabet) a_e (snake, race) ow (snow, bowl)

Examples of words from Phase 5 light Phase 5- alternative Fried Phase 5- split diagraph Slide Phase 5- alternative happy, beach, donkey, field Phase 3 tree Phase 5- split diagraph these

Examples of alien words from Phase 5 glorpide meacher

Here is an example of what the test will look like...

How can you help? When reading with children, encourage them to put the sounds buttons under a word to highlight the sounds that make the word. Encourage the children when they are writing to use their phonics to spell a word rather than spelling it out for them. Encourage the children to put the sound buttons under the words to find the digraphs/trigraphs/split-digraphs. Read regularly at home.

How can you help? REMEMBER: Phonics is not the only thing needed to become a fluent reader. Please continue to read with your child each night and encourage them to sound out and re-read to check it makes sense. You can go online and get examples of previous tests if you would like to practice at home. http://www.satspapers.org.uk/Page.aspx?TId=21 (scroll down and there is lots of past papers)

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