1. Year 1 Phonics Workshop

2. Aims of today’s session
To give a brief outline of what phonics is
To inform and explain the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
To give ideas on how you can help your child at home

3. Phonic terms your child will learn at school
Phonemes: The smallest units of sound that are found within a word e.g. c
Grapheme: The spelling of the sound e.g. th
Diagraph: Two letters that make one sound when read e.g. ai
Trigraphs: Three letters that make one sound e.g. igh
CVC: Stands for consonant, vowel, consonant (cat)
Segmenting is breaking up a word into its sounds (c-a-t)
Blending: Putting the sounds together to read a word (c-a-t is cat)
Tricky words: Words that cannot easily be decoded e.g. the, said and

4. Why phonics?
Needed for reading and writing
26 letters in the alphabet but there are 44 sounds (5 vowels)
A phoneme can be represented by one or more letters e.g. c, sh, igh
The same phoneme can be spelt in more than one way e.g. rain, may, lake
The same spelling may represent more than one phoneme e.g. ea in mean, deaf

5. Phase 1: phonological awareness (ongoing)
Phases 1-6
Phase 1: phonological awareness (ongoing)
Phase 2: s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss
Phase 3: j, v, w, x, y, z, qu, sh, ch, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er
Phase 4: Focus on applying the sounds. (No new sounds are taught here)
Phase 5: Alternative spellings of sounds such as ay, ie, ea etc
Phase 6: spelling (year 2)
By the end of Year 1 the national average is Phase 5.
The national average for Year 2 is Phase 6.

6. Phoneme Frames c a t f i sh n igh t c a k e
Great for learning sounds and how to apply them
Help with spellings c a t f i sh n
igh t c a k e

7. Phoneme frames activity
make duck fill
church strike

8. Nonsense words
fot blan
herks geck
veen quorg
flarm voisk
quigh zale

9. Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
• A national statutory assessment for all children in Year 1
• Takes place during W/B 12th June 2017
• Phonics check is designed to confirm whether children have learnt phonics decoding to an appropriate standard – it’s not a reading test
• Administered in a quiet room/area 1-1 with the class teacher

10. Phonics Screening Check
• The Phonics Screening Check comprises of a list of 40 words
• The list is a combination of both real words and pseudo- words – 20 of each
• Using pseudo- words allows this assessment to focus purely on decoding using phonics
• Pseudo- words shown with pictures of imaginary creatures next to them

11. Phonic assessment

12. Is there anything you can do at home?

13. When spelling, encourage your child to think about what “looks right”.
Have fun trying out different options…wipe clean whiteboards are good for trying out spellings.
tray trai
rain rayn
boil boyl
boy boi
throat throwt
snow snoa

14. - Professor Charles Desforges
Final thought
If parents engage with their children's education, the attainment of the child will increase by 15% no matter what the social background of the family.
- Professor Charles Desforges