1. Welcome to our Phonics and Reading workshop Mrs Chadwick Autumn 2015

2. Parents/carers will: have an overview of phonics and how it is taught in school have a better understanding of how to support their child with phonics be familiar, in principle, with the school’s approach to teaching reading know simple things they can do to support their child with reading development Understand the phonics screening check Objectives of this workshop:

3. 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 20 minute phonics lesson each day and they are encouraged to use these strategies to read and write in other lessons. There are 44 different sounds.

5. Phonics At Bollinbrook Primary School, when children enter the EYFS and through Key Stage 1, they take part in high quality phonics sessions every day. These are fun sessions involving lots of speaking, listening and games, where the emphasis is on children’s active participation.

6. Not all children will learn at the same rate Your child should be supported whatever their rate of learning. We split our children into smaller groups for phonics as this supports individualised learning At Bollinbrook Primary School we use a systematic phonics programme called Letters and Sounds. Letters and Sounds is divided into six phases, with each phase building on the skills and knowledge of previous learning.

7. Phases 1-3 Phase 1 – concentrates on speaking and listening skills and getting them attuned to the sounds around them and preparing them for segmenting and blending. Phase 2 – letters and their sounds are introduced one at a time in a sequence. The children are then encouraged to use this knowledge to blend and segment words, i.e. Blend the sounds m-a-t to make the word ‘mat’. Phase 3 – more phonemes are taught including vowel digraphs, i.e. oo, ee, ai, and consonant cluster, i.e. ch, sh, th, ng, and tricky words are introduced.

8. Phases 4-6 Phase 4 –no new graphemes are introduced. The aim of this phase is to consolidate the children’s knowledge and to help them learn to read and spell words with adjacent consonants, i.e. milk, string, trap. Phase 5 – the children will learn more graphemes and phonemes, i.e. They will recognise ‘ai’ in rain but they will learn alternative spellings such as ‘a-e’ in cake and ‘ay’ as in day. Phase 6 - the aim of phase six is to encourage the children to become more fluent readers and more accurate spellers.

9. ‘ Reading’: one word, 2 meanings… Decoding: Is simply reading the words and sentences by using a bank of known words (sight vocabulary) or by applying sounding-out skills Comprehending: - understanding what the author has said and is saying; - getting meaning from the text - understanding enough to get meaning from what is not explicitly said (inference). ….one act, two processes.

10. red

11. Mr Smith saw red. “Sit down and be quiet!” he hissed, through clenched teeth. What else tells us how Mr Smith is feeling in this extract? “Understanding all the words” is not the same as “reading the text”.

12. Reading at Bollinbrook Primary School How is reading taught at Bollinbrook Primary School?

13. Teaching reading in school is done in 2 main ways: 1. Shared reading on a whole class level This involves the teacher directly teaching reading skills within the Literacy lesson using a shared text. Teaching at this level can also take place during class story times, where the teacher models story telling as well as giving an example of the language used in a text.

14. 2. Guided Reading This is where the teacher teaches a small group of no more than 6 children of a similar ability. Each child has the same text, and the teacher models and develops reading skills which relate to the children’s personal reading targets.

16. A quick recap!

17. Blending to read h-a-t hat r-i-ng ring

19. High Frequency Words Tricky words thenosaid Key words isthatsee Tricky words thenosaid Key words isthatsee

20. digraphs (2 letters that make one sound) Consonant digraphs Vowel digraphs shth chng eeoraioa ieoo(oo)ue areroiou

21. Every Year 1 child in the country will be taking the phonics screening check in the same week in June. The aim of the check is to ensure that all children are able to read by the end of year two. This ‘midpoint check’ will ensure that we have a clear understanding of what the children need to learn in year 2. Why are the children screened in Year 1?

22. 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.eg 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 What will the children be expected to do?

25. The screening will take place throughout a whole week in June. The check has been designed so that children of all abilities will be able to take part. When will the screening take place?

26. The children will complete the check one at a time in a quiet area of the school. The class teacher will conduct all of the screening checks with the children. The screening will only take 5-10mins with each child. Where will the screening take place?

27. Encourage your child to ‘sound out’ when reading or writing. Focusing particularly on spotting more unusual sound patterns. Digraph- 2 letters making one sound cow Trigraphs- 3 letters making one sound night Split digraphs- 2 vowels with a consonant inbetween. Use to be known as the magic e! spine - i_e How can you help?

28. Encourage your child to use their sound mat when reading and writing to find the sound they need. Children can practise their phonics by playing games online. The children particularly like ‘Buried Treasure’ If you are unsure of any of the sounds you can take a look on YouTube and search for Mr Thorne does Phonics http://www.phonicspla y.co.uk/BuriedTreasure 2.html

29. 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 Re-read to check it makes sense. Use pictures for clues. Ask questions about the book. And most importantly ENJOY READING!

30. Activity ideas Treasure / bin Lotto Word splat Read it / build it / write it Treasure ‘word’ hunts Snap