KS1 English Meeting 15th November 2017

Overview of this evening… Phonics – different phases of Letters and Sounds Reading Bug Club Writing Resources

Phonics Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics and the National Curriculum Daily 20 minute phonics sessions Setting across year groups

Phonics terminology Blending - Recognising the letter sounds in a written word and merging or synthesising them Segmenting - Identifying the individual sounds in a word and writing them down CVC words – a word made up of a consonant, vowel and then a consonant, e.g. cat CVCC/CCVC words – words containing adjacent consonants, e.g. lamp or frog Tricky words – a word which can not be blended and only learnt by sight

Phonics terminology Phoneme – the smallest unit of sound in a word Grapheme - A way of writing down a phoneme. Graphemes can be made up from 1 letter e.g. p, 2 letters e.g. sh, 3 letters e.g. igh or 4 letters e.g ough. Digraph - A grapheme containing two letters that makes just one sound, e.g. oa Trigraph - A grapheme containing three letters that makes just one sound, e.g. igh Split digraph - A digraph in which the two letters are not adjacent, e.g. a-e in ‘cake’

Letters and Sounds – Phase 2 Letters and their sounds (phonemes) Jolly Phonics actions/songs Blending Segmenting Tricky words – the, to, no, go, I Reading captions

Letters and Sounds – Phase 3 20 new graphemes (two letters), e.g ‘oa’ Letter names Blending CVC words Segmenting CVC words Tricky words – reading and spelling Two syllable words Sentences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s Correct pronunciation of Phase 2 and 3 phonemes and graphemes

Letters and Sounds – Phase 4 Consolidate knowledge of graphemes Read words with adjacent consonants (CVCC/CCVC) Spell words with adjacent consonants Tricky words – reading and spelling Reading/writing sentences

Letters and Sounds – Phase 5 New graphemes and alternative pronunciations of graphemes (e.g. ai, ay, a-e) Spell words using appropriate graphemes Tricky words – reading and spelling Read and spell two and three syllable words (e.g fantastic) Read and write sentences

Letters and Sounds – Phase 6 Year 2 curriculum Past and present tenses Suffixes – ed, ing, ful, less Prefixes – un, dis Compound words (e.g. football) Singular and plural

Reading - curriculum Curriculum split up into: Word reading – decoding the text, applying phonics, building up fluency and confidence Comprehension – discussing a wide range of genres, discussing word meanings, making inferences, making predictions, retelling and checking it makes sense. Comprehension just as important as word reading! Variety of genres – fiction, non-fiction and poetry End of year expectations Reading colours

Guided Reading Daily guided reading session usually 9:00-9:30 1 read with teacher/TA, 2nd read or follow up Children may read up onto next colour Rotation of independent activities Year 1 from October half term Year 2 from September

Bug Club New online reading resource Children will access e-books of the colour they are reading on at school Books with focuses – tricky words/sounds Comprehension questions Teachers monitor access and responses Logins will be sent home Information letter

Writing – curriculum Curriculum split into 4 areas: Spelling - spelling words using phonics, spelling tricky words, using prefixes and suffixes, spelling contracted words (I’ll, I’m) Handwriting - forming letters correctly, beginning to join Composition – writing for different purposes, saying out loud what they are going to write, re-reading their writing to check it makes sense Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation – capital letters, finger spaces, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, adjectives, past/present tense, conjunctions Curriculum - more focused on spelling, grammar and punctuation End of year expectations

Handwriting Scheme of work – PenPals Letters in 4 ‘families’: Curly caterpillars – c, a, d, o, s, g, q, e, f Zigzag monsters – z, v, w, x Long legged giraffes – l, I, t, u, j, y One armed robots – r, b, n, h, m, k, p Also covers number formation and capital letters for all families Year 1 start to join clusters of letters together Year 2 build on this and join most letters

Resources Resources on tables for you to have a look at Used in class to support phonics, reading and writing.

Any questions? Thank you for coming!