Phonics in Year 1 Julie Phillippo Bracknell Forest Family Learning Team

You will learn: How to use phonics to blend and segment a word What children will be learning in year 1 phonics lessons What you can do at home to support their learning in fun ways

Phonics – a few things you should know…

Phonics is about linking the sounds of spoken language to written letters (graphemes) A phoneme is a unit of sound Spoken English is divided into about 42 phonemes. Phonics schemes are based on these 42 phonemes.

Segmenting the sounds In order to spell, children must learn to hear the sounds within words. I want to write about a I must hear the word in my head and split it up into individual sounds.

In order to read, children need to learn to blend the sounds together they see on the page. d - r - e - ss CD Rom phase 2 blending for reading clip Pure sounds – no shcwa Use the arm

Letters and Sounds – Reception Set 1: s atp Set 2:i nmd Set 3:g ock Set 4:ck eur Set 5:h bf,ffl,llss Set 6:j vwx(ks) Set 7:y z,zzqu(kw) Phases 2- 3

Some sounds are represented by more than 1 grapheme ship sh. i. p

Digraphs Some sounds are represented by two letters. These are called digraphs. e.g. sh, ch, ng, oo And some need 3 letters: igh, ear, ure Trigraphs

Digraphs and Trigraphs ch - chipar - farm sh -shopor – for th – thin/thenur - hurt ure - sureow - cow ai – rainee - feet ng - singoi - coin igh - nightair - fair oo – book, spooner - corner Phase 3

Phoneme frame Segment the word. Write one phoneme in each square.

fish wing f-i-sh w-i-ng

Letters and Sounds A phonics scheme divided into 5 phases. Phases 2-4 covered in reception (though children will still need to recap what they learnt in reception and build upon it.) Phase 5 covered in year 1 Phase 6 covered in year 2

Phase 4 (taught towards the end of reception) Blend and segment adjacent consonants frog f–r–o–g eg clock, train, fresh

Phase 5 – year 1 Alternative spellings for some of the phonemes they have already met in earlier phases. Challenge: write a list of as many words as possible that have an ‘ai’ sound in them; as in They don’t have to be spelt with ai

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Alternative spellings for the ai sound a angel a-e cake -ae sundae -eigh eight -ey grey ea break -ay tray

Split Digraph a-ee-ei-eo-eu-e came made make these Pete Steve like time pine bone pole home June huge rude take game race even scene extreme ripe shine nice alone those stone rule tube use

Year 1 Phonics Screening Test An assessment of the child’s ability to decode words using phonics. The aim is to pick up any children who are struggling with phonics, so that they can be given extra support. All schools must set the test in a specified week in June. (End of year 1) It takes 4-8 minutes. Children are asked to read a list of 40 words – some are real words and some are non-words.

Games and activities to play at home Play with magnetic lower case letters – write a simple sentence or a word for your child to find on the fridge! Use post-it notes or a white board to write on Have fun with writing words in shaving foam on the bath tiles Hide some letters around the garden or house – can your child collect the right letters to make a 3 or 4 letter word? (stop, spot, frog, green, track, spin, flag, wind, lamp, nest, sink, hunt, bank, toast, chimp, thank, spoon)

For children who like trains or cars – blutac some letters onto toy vehicles; can they ‘park’ them so that they spell a word? Cut up a word from your child’s spelling list – can they put it back together again? Play Full Circle Use magnetic letters to make a word. Change one letter each time to make a new word until you get back to the original e.g. park-part-tart- dart-dark-park-full circle!

Online Games and Activities pictures/longvow/index.shtmlhttp:// pictures/longvow/index.shtml Some lovely games to practise long-vowel sounds, CVC words and adjacent consonants. Activities to print out as well as online games. home/reading-site/fun-ideas/age http:// home/reading-site/fun-ideas/age Age appropriate activities – not just phonics.

_LS.htmlhttp:// _LS.html If you have a printer, you can print off bingo cards with words on them. Then play with the online bingo game. Good for practising blending. asure2.htmlhttp:// asure2.html Read the words and sort them into real and nonsense words. Based on a pirate theme.

ers-and-sounds/ Activites and games to print out linked to the different phases of the Letters and Sounds scheme.