1. Year 1 Phonics Parent Workshop
Mrs Coleing and Mrs Pickering

2. Aims
To familiarise you with some of the terminology used in our phonics sessions.
To talk to you about how the phonics check will be administered and what it looks like.
To provide you with some useful resources.

3. + Phonics at a glance! skills of segmentation and blending
knowledge of the alphabetic code
It is the vital initial step in teaching children to read but it is far from the whole picture. +
Shared reading
Group reading
Reading aloud

4. What does phonics consist of?
Identifying sounds in spoken words
Recognising the common spellings of each phoneme.
Blending phonemes into words for reading.
Segmenting words into phonemes for spelling.

5. Definitions
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word. A grapheme Letter(s) representing a phoneme. t ai igh

6. A phoneme can be represented/spelled in more than one way cat, kennel, chick The same grapheme may represent more than one phoneme me, met.

7. Segmenting:
Identifying the individual sounds in
a spoken word (e.g. h-i-m).
and writing down or manipulating
the letters for each sound to form
the word ‘him’.

8. Blending:
Recognising the letter-sounds in a
written word, for example c-u-p.
Merging or synthesising them in the order
in which they are written to pronounce
the word ‘cup’.

9. Digraph:
Two letters, which make one sound.
A consonant digraph contains 2 consonants:
sh ck th ll
A vowel digraph contains at least one vowel:
ai ee ar oy
Trigraph: Three letters, which make one sound -
igh (high) ear (hear) air (hair)

10. Split digraph:
A digraph in which the two letters are not adjacent – e.g. Make

11. Tricky words:
Words which cannot be sounded out correctly using the phonics sounds. The only way these words can be read and spelt correctly is by learning them and having plenty of practise.
I said to go the

12. Common Exception Words:
Are not words for which phonics 'doesn't work', but they may be exceptions to spelling rules, or words which use a particular combination of letters to represent sound patterns in a rare or unique way.

13. Oxford Owl Website
Learning at home

14. What does a Phonics lesson look like?
Revisit/review
Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far.
Teach
Teach new phoneme air
Practice
Buried treasure
Air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair, vair, sair, thair
Apply
Read captions:
The girl had long hair.
The boy said it’s not fair.

15. Phase 1 There are 7 aspects with 3 strands. A1 – Environmental
A2 – Instrumental sounds
A3 – Body Percussion
A4 – Rhythm and rhyme
A5 – Alliteration
A6 – Voice sounds
A7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

16. Phase 2 Set 1: s, a, t, p Set 2: i, n, m, d Set 3: g, o, c, k
Set 4: ck, e, u, r
Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

17. Phase 3 Set 6: j, v, w, x Set 7: y, z, zz, qu
Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng
Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er

18. Phase 4
This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases.

19. Phase 5
Children will be taught new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes.
Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au
Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

20. What’s the screening check all about?
Every Year 1 child in the country will be taking the phonics screening check in June (week commencing June 11th 2018).
The aim of the check is to ensure that all children are able to read by the end of Year 2.
This ‘midpoint check’ will ensure that we have a clear understanding of what the children need to learn in Year 2.

21. Example of words that have been in previous checks
Alien/nonsense words
Real words

22. Little and often is best! The children get lots of input in school.
How to help at home.
Little and often is best!
The children get lots of input in school.