1. Phonics Screening Information Evening
Hannah: Welcome
Aims: To find out about the Year 1 Phonics Screening and make suggests on how parents can best support their children.

2. Warm up!
Write the word on a whiteboard, mark on the sound buttons and read the words:
zowd
smatue
kighring
What do they say? Why could we read it? Able to break it down? In to what…?
Use of prior knowledge of how sounds and letters go together

3. z-ow-d s-m-a-t-ue k-igh-r-i-ng
Answers
z-ow-d
s-m-a-t-ue
k-igh-r-i-ng

4. PHONICS
Is a way of teaching children to read quickly and skilfully.
Recognise the sounds each individual letter makes.
Identify sounds that different combinations of letters make e.g sh or oo.
Blend these sounds together from left to right to make a word.
Children use this knowledge to decode new words that they hear or see.
We use ‘Letters and Sounds’: Principles and Practice of High Quality Phonics to teach Reception, Year 1 and Year 2

5. PHONEME The smallest unit of sound in a word.
There are 44 phonemes that we teach.
Julia

6. The 44 phonemes /b/ /d/ /f/ /g/ /h/ /j/ /k/ /l/ /m/ /n/ /ng/ /p/ /r/
/v/
/w/
/y/
/z/
/th/
/ch/
/sh/
/zh/
/a/
/e/
/i/
/o/
/u/
/ae/
/ee/
/ie/
/oe/
/ue/
/oo/
/ar/
/ur/
/au/
/er/
/ow/
/oi/
/air/
/ear/
/ure/
Julia
Show sound video

7. GRAPHEME Letters representing a phoneme e.g. c ai igh
Children need to practise recognising the grapheme and saying the phoneme that it represents.
Hannah
Demonstrate this phoneme is this grapheme.

8. Following single phonemes we learn …
Digraphs – 2 letters that make 1 sound
ch sh zz oa ai
Trigraphs – 3 letters that make 1 sound
igh air ear
Split digraph – A digraph in which the two letters are not adjacent
make cake dome
Hannah

9. Same sound different graphemes.
Some sounds can be represented by different graphemes.
o oe ow o_e oa
Hannah
GAME - Phoneme spotter

10. BLENDING SEGMENTING Recognising the letter sounds in a written word,
c-l-ow-n
and merging or ‘blending’ them in the order in which they are written to pronounce the word ‘clown’
SEGMENTING
Hear and say the individual phonemes within words.
‘Chopping Up’ the word to spell it out
clown = c-l-ow-n
Julia

11. Screening Check
A short, simple assessment to make sure that all pupils have learned phonic decoding to an appropriate standard by the age of 6.
All year 1 pupils in maintained schools, academies and free schools must complete the check.
The phonics check will help teachers identify the children who need extra help so they can receive the support they need to improve their reading skills. These children will then be able to retake the check in year 2.
Hannah
Parents write on their phoneme frames

12. Format of the Screening
40 Words.
20 real words
20 non or pseudo words.
Hannah

13. Real Words gang phone Phonetically decodable.
Presented on a plain card.
Children can add sound buttons.
phone
gang
Hannah

14. Pseudo Words vop snemp Phonetically decodable.
Presented with an accompanying alien character.
Children can add sound buttons.
Julia
vop
snemp

15. Organisation of the Screening
One to one with Miss Curtis
In the week beginning: 13th June th June
Flexible in timings. Children can have breaks, add phoneme buttons
Hannah

16. Results of the Screening
Previous past marks have been 32 out of 40.
This years pass mark will not be known until after the screening week.
Parents will receive a letter sharing the results once they have been collated and verified.
Hannah

17. What you can do to help. Play games Borrow resources Ask questions
Julia

18. Useful websites www.phonicsplay.co.uk
Julia