1. Year 1 Phonics Master Class
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Year 1 Phonics Master Class

2. www.gov.uk/phonics What is phonics?
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What is phonics?
Phonics is a way of teaching children to read quickly and skillfully. They are taught how to:
recognise the sounds that each individual letter makes;
identify the sounds that different combinations of letters make - such as ‘sh’ or ‘oo’; and
blend these sounds together from left to right to make a word.
Children can then use this knowledge to ‘de-code’ new words that they hear or see. This is the first important step in learning to read.
If the children do not pass the screening in Year 1, they will have a chance to re-take this in Year 2.

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Letters and Sounds…
National Phonics scheme published by the Department for Education
We do use resources from other companies and schemes to fit the learning needs of all children.

4. Letters and Sounds & the Phases…
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Letters and Sounds & the Phases…
Phase 1 - By the end of phase 1 children will have experienced a wealth of listening activities including songs, stories and rhymes. They will be able to distinguish between speech sounds and many will be able to blend and segment words orally. Some will also be able to recognise spoken words that rhyme and will be able to provide a string of rhyming words, but inability to do this does not prevent moving on to Phase Two as these speaking and listening activities continue.
Phase 2 - By the end of Phase Two children should:
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss
give the sound when shown any Phase Two letter, securing first the starter letters s, a, t, p, i, n;
find any Phase Two letter, from a display, when given the sound;
be able to orally blend and segment CVC words;
be able to blend and segment in order to read and spell (using magnetic letters)
CVC words such as: if, am, on, up and ‘nonsense words’ such as ip, ug and ock;
be able to read the five tricky words the, to, I, no, go.

5. Letters and Sounds & the Phases…
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Letters and Sounds & the Phases…
Phase 3 – At the beginning of the year most children will know some phase 3 middle vowel grapheme e.g. ai and ur, they will have used them to write CVC words e.g. wait and hurt.
Phase 4 – This is the next stage where we teach the children to use the phase 3 graphemes to build up longer words e.g. g-r-ee-n. We call this a CCVC word. The words keep getting longer and more complicated until we reach polysyllabic words such as ‘starlight’ and ‘pondweed’. This should take about a month.
Phase 5 – This is a much longer section and will take the rest of the year to complete. It includes learning new graphemes for each of the phase 3 phonemes that the children already know, for example, which spelling to use for snail, play, make, acorn and they and where these spelling patterns occur in words.

6. Terminology… Phoneme – a sound
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Terminology…
Phoneme – a sound
Grapheme – written representation of the sound
Initial Sounds – a single letter with a single sound
Digraph – two letters that make one sound
Trigraph – three letters that make one sound
Split Digraph – two letters that make one sound but are split from each other in written form.
Decode/blend – when reading to find all of the sounds in the word and then put it back together by blending them.
Segment – To say a word and break it down into the sounds you can hear to aid spelling and writing,
Tricky word – A word that cannot be blended and is high frequency to reading.
CVC, CCVC, CCVCC etc – Make up of words in terms of consonants and vowels.

7. ch sh th ng Phase 3 Digraphs … ai ee igh oa oo oo ar or ow ur oi er
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Phase 3 Digraphs … ch sh th ng
Consonant graphemes;
Vowel graphemes; ai ee
igh oa oo oo ar or ow ur oi er
ear
air
ure

8. ure ear air igh sair s air s ai r Phase 3 Trigraphs…
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Phase 3 Trigraphs…
ure
ear
air
igh
Three letter graphemes are the hardest for the children to spot in words. Take this nonsense word for example….
is the correct is not!
pronunciation,
sair s
air s ai r

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Grapheme Frame….

10. Phase 5 … ai ee igh oa oo or ow oi er ar ur oo au ou oy ir ear ay e-e
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Phase 5 …
Children learn different ways of reading and spelling each of the phase 3 sounds that they already know. ai ee
igh oa oo or ow oi er ar ur oo au ou oy ir
ear ay
e-e ie oe ue ea aw
air
a-e
i-e
o-e
u-e ie ow ew
ure wh ph ey y

11. sh i n e h u g e ph o n e f o p e g i n e
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Split digraphs…
a-e
e-e
i-e
o-e
u-e sh i n e h u g e ph o n e f o p e g i n e

12. p l ay t r ay s n ai l t r ai n c a k e g a t e
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Phase 5 Spelling Patterns…
We teach the children how to apply their new graphemes by talking about the ‘best bet’. p l ay t r ay s n ai l t r ai n c a k e g a t e

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Applying Phonics…

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Applying Phonics…

15. Nonsense words … What a load of nonsense!!
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Nonsense words …
What a load of nonsense!!
Actually it helps the children to decode unfamiliar words and become more fluent and able readers!!
A child who is a good reader, and good at applying their phonics will be able to use their knowledge of GPC’s to decode any words whether it is familiar or unfamiliar.
You can see this evidenced in their writing. Readers who learn to read from sight find it difficult to apply their phonics in writing.

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Nonsense words…
If the children do not get into the habit of pointing to the sounds, ‘ot’ can easily become ‘to’ as they will try and read by sight.

17. National Phonics Screening …
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National Phonics Screening …
Week beginning 12th June 2017
We screen the children in December, February and April.
Screening is administered on a 1:1 basis.
It is possible that as a school we could be moderated.
Pass rate 32 out of 40ish!!!

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Past Papers…
Have a look through the past paper booklets and feel free to ask any questions.

19. Phonics Intervention…
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Phonics Intervention…
These are small group or individual sessions for children needing extra confidence.
They involve:-
Practicing the graphemes - if your child is unsure of these could you please practice the packs of graphemes that are sent home.
Games
The chute game
Buried Treasure
Trugs. – We also have Trugs at home for you to help support your child.

20. How to support your child at home…
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How to support your child at home…
Daily reading – point to each grapheme
Identify the sounds that your child doesn’t know and display them everywhere!!
Focus on graphemes identified by teaching staff (Let’s Practise)
Help the children to prepare for ‘Super-Star Spellers’
Play games & draw pictures
Nearer the time, we will provide you with revision resources
Phonics Parents’ Meetings for select children

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Phonicsplay.co.uk

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More useful websites…
Or just Google ‘National Phonics Screening resources’.

23. Thank you!
Any questions?