1. Year One Phonics Stay and Play
January 2019

2. What is Phonics? Children are taught to:
Recognise the sounds that each individual letter makes
Identify the sounds that different combinations of letters make such as ‘sh’ or ‘oo’
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 such as ‘sh i p’

3. Terminology Phoneme – this is a discreet unit of sound (a, f, p)
Digraph – where two letters make one sound (er, sh, ee)
Trigraph – where three letters make one sound (igh, ear)
Grapheme – the written form of the sound
Robot or Fred Talk – this is when words are broken down into each discreet sound.
Phoneme Fingers – This is when the phonemes are counted and the matching number of fingers are held up.
Sound buttons or Sausages and Beans – this is when dots and dashes are marked under a word to show knowledge of the sounds.

4. How is Phonics taught? Letters and Sounds Programme 20 minutes daily
Whole class / small group / 1:1 intervention
Class Teacher / Learning Support Assistant

5. How is Phonics taught?
The short lessons are fast paced, interactive and consist of four parts.
Revisit – the sounds from previous learning.
Teach – a new sound
Practise – games incorporating these sounds
Apply – read or write a caption using one or more of known high frequency words and words containing the new sounds.

6. How many phases are there in Phonics?
Phase One – listening to and distinguishing sounds in their environment
Phase Two – learning 23 sounds, beginning to segment and blend
Phase Three – learning 25 sounds, developing phonetically plausible attempts
Phase Four – consolidation of above sounds
Phase Five – learning 19 sounds with alternative graphemes and split digraphs
Phonics Screening Check June 2019

9. ai

10. pain

11. aim

12. wait

13. Phase 5

14. a_e

15. cake

16. snake

17. Phonics learning at home
Bug Club
Phonics Play
Education City
ICT Games
BBC Bitesize
Board Games
Snap
Pairs
Treasure Hunt
Splat
Playdough
Bubbles
Shaving foam
Sand
Paint

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