Presented by Mrs R Daniel CLLD Lead PHONICS Key Stage 1

Phonics in Key Stage 1 2

Phonics is: 3 Knowledge of the alphabetic code  26 letters  44 phonemes  144 combinations Skills of blending and segmenting

Terminology Phoneme = the smallest unit of sound in a word Grapheme = the written representation of a sound (phoneme) 4

Phases in Phonics Nursery: Phase 1- “Tuning into Sounds” Reception: Phase phonemes are taught Phase phonemes are taught Phase 4 – Blend & segment words with adjacent consonants e.g.(step, fast, twist, strand) 5

Year 1 Phase 5 Further graphemes for reading ay (day) a-e (cake) Alternative pronunciations for graphemes c (cat, cent) Alternative spellings for phonemes /igh/ pie by nice Reading and spelling of two-syllable and three- syllable words (e.g. dolphin, computer) 6

Quick game: How many different ways can you write the long ‘ai’ vowel sound? 7

The answer: 9 ai (pain) ay (day) a-e (make) ea (great) a (baby) ei (vein) eigh (eight) aigh (straight) ey (they) 8

Please read this sentence: “A rough-coated, doughed-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a lough, he coughed and hiccoughed.” 9

“ough” rough………………..……. uff dough………………..……. oa thoughtful…………..……… aw ploughman……………..….. ow through……………..….…. oo Scarborough………………. uh lough……………………… o coughed…………………… off hiccoughed………………... up 10

Year 1 Phonic Screening Check 11

Your turn! How many sounds? speedbroom crayonfoil shark crawl slightstraight 12

Your turn! How many sounds? speed4broom 4 crayon5foil 3 shark 3 crawl 4 slight4straight 5 13

Year 2 Phase 6 into Support for Spellings Read with increasing fluency Teaching spelling  Introducing and teaching the past tense  Investigating and learning how to add suffixes  Application of spelling in writing  Knowledge of the spelling system (e.g. ai and oi / ay and oy) 14

How can I help at home? 15

Useful websites 16

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