1. Year 1
Phonics
Screening

2. 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 30 minutes phonics lesson each day and they are encouraged to use these strategies to read and write in other lessons.
There are around 40 different sounds.

3. THIS IS NOT A READING TEST
What will the children
be expected to do?
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, e.g. 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

4. Phonics Phases Phonics is split into six phases.
By the end of Year 1, children are expected to be working within Phase Five. .

5. Phase 3 Phonics (Reception)
High Frequency Words
will for
that now
this down
then look
them too
with
see
Tricky Words
he they
she all
me my
we are
be her
was are
you
Phase 3 Phonics (Reception)
Andy’s Alien words
Dar veng
Zort jigh
Sair quoam
Kesar doit
Graphemes (sounds)
Set 6/7: J, V, x, y, z, zz, qu
Ch (chips, chop, such) sh (shop, ship, posh) th (thin, then, thing)
ng (ring,sing)
ai (rain, pain, train) oo (zoo, boot, moon) ur (nurse, purse, curl)
ee (tree, three, week) oo (u) (hook, hood, wool) ow (cow, bow, town)
igh (night, fight, light) ar (car, start,market) oi (coin, foil, join)
oa (goat, boat, soap) or (fork, born, cork) ear (hear, gear, year)
air (fair, hair, pair) ure (sure, pure, secure) er (letter, dinner)
High Frequency Words
will for
that now
this down
then look
them too
with
see
Phase 3 Phonics
Tricky Words
he they
she all
me my
we are
be her
was are
you
High Frequency Words
will for
that now
this down
then look
them too
with
see
Phase 3 Phonics
Tricky Words
he they
she all
me my
we are
be her
was are
you
High Frequency Words
will for
that now
this down
then look
them too
with
see
Phase 3 Phonics
Tricky Words
he they
she all
me my
we are
be her
was are
you
High Frequency Words
will for
that now
this down
then look
them too
with
see
Phase 3 Phonics
Tricky Words
he they
she all
me my
we are
be her
was are
you
High Frequency Words
will for
that now
this down
then look
them too
with
see
Phase 3 Phonics
Tricky Words
he they
she all
me my
we are
be her
was are
you
Andy’s Alien words
Dar veng
Zort jigh
Sair quoam
Kesar doit
Andy’s Alien words
Dar veng
Zort jigh
Sair quoam
Kesar doit
Andy’s Alien words
Dar veng
Zort jigh
Sair quoam
Kesar doit
Andy’s Alien words
Dar veng
Zort jigh
Sair quoam
Kesar doit
Andy’s Alien words
Dar veng
Zort jigh
Sair quoam
Kesar doit
Graphemes (sounds)
ai (rain, pain, train) oo (zoo, boot, moon) ur (nurse, purse, curl)
ee (tree, three, week) oo (u) (hook, hood, wool) ow (cow, bow, town)
igh (night, fight, light) ar (car, start,market) oi (coin, foil, join)
oa (goat, boat, soap) or (fork, born, cork) ear (hear, gear, year)
air (fair, hair, pair) ure (sure, pure, secure) er (letter, dinner)
Graphemes (sounds)
ai (rain, pain, train) oo (zoo, boot, moon) ur (nurse, purse, curl)
ee (tree, three, week) oo (u) (hook, hood, wool) ow (cow, bow, town)
igh (night, fight, light) ar (car, start,market) oi (coin, foil, join)
oa (goat, boat, soap) or (fork, born, cork) ear (hear, gear, year)
air (fair, hair, pair) ure (sure, pure, secure) er (letter, dinner)
Graphemes (sounds)
ai (rain, pain, train) oo (zoo, boot, moon) ur (nurse, purse, curl)
ee (tree, three, week) oo (u) (hook, hood, wool) ow (cow, bow, town)
igh (night, fight, light) ar (car, start,market) oi (coin, foil, join)
oa (goat, boat, soap) or (fork, born, cork) ear (hear, gear, year)
air (fair, hair, pair) ure (sure, pure, secure) er (letter, dinner)
Graphemes (sounds)
ai (rain, pain, train) oo (zoo, boot, moon) ur (nurse, purse, curl)
ee (tree, three, week) oo (u) (hook, hood, wool) ow (cow, bow, town)
igh (night, fight, light) ar (car, start,market) oi (coin, foil, join)
oa (goat, boat, soap) or (fork, born, cork) ear (hear, gear, year)
air (fair, hair, pair) ure (sure, pure, secure) er (letter, dinner)
Graphemes (sounds)
ai (rain, pain, train) oo (zoo, boot, moon) ur (nurse, purse, curl)
ee (tree, three, week) oo (u) (hook, hood, wool) ow (cow, bow, town)
igh (night, fight, light) ar (car, start,market) oi (coin, foil, join)
oa (goat, boat, soap) or (fork, born, cork) ear (hear, gear, year)
air (fair, hair, pair) ure (sure, pure, secure) er (letter, dinner)

6. Examples of words from Phase 3
rain tinfoil
beard market
Phase 3 begins to introduce the children to diagraphs and trigraphs

7. Examples of Alien words from Phase 3
veng tort
jigh zark

8. Phase 4 Phonics (Reception/Year1)
High Frequency Words
went
it’s
From
children
just
help
Tricky Words
said were
have there
like little
so one
do when
some out
come what
Phase 4 Phonics
(Reception/Year1)
Alien words
gax chee plood
hish yurk grint
koob waiber theest
fowd thordon dreet
Revisit graphemes (sounds) from Phase 3 and to make longer words
cheese crunch toast float thank
punch drank burnt starlight spend
slipper creep handstand speech glitter
brush melting seventh printer sport
trench thunder Chester scrunch grass

9. Examples of words from Phase 4
Phase 4 teaches children how to read and write longer words (polysyllabic words) using phase 3 graphemes and diagraphs.
burnt shampoo
grinch helpdesk

10. Examples of alien words from Phase 4
yark
grint

11. Phase 5 Phonics (Year 1/Year2) Graphemes (sounds) Alternative sounds
High Frequency Words
don’t your
old day
i’m made
by came
time make
house here
about saw
Phase 5 Phonics (Year 1/Year2)
Tricky Words
oh asked
their could
people very Mr
Mrs
looked
called
Andy’s Alien words
Bamp spunch
Fowsping Kelf
Skarb Pronk
Shreb glorpid
spu
Graphemes (sounds) Alternative sounds
ay (play, spray) ir (bird, skirt) ew (chew, grew) e_e (Steve, theme)
ou (sound, cloud) ue (glue, tissue) oe (tomatoes, goes) i_e (slide, prize)
ie (tie, cried) aw (paw, yawn) au (launch, August) o_e (phone, note)
ea (steam, bead) wh (which, whisper) ey (money, trolley) u_e (June, flute)
oy (toy, royal) ph (dolphin, alphabet) a_e (snake, race) ow (snow, bowl)
Phase 5 teaches children the alternative sounds from phase 3. As well as split diagraphs.
Graphemes (sounds) Alternative sounds
ay (play, spray) ir (bird, skirt) ew (chew, grew) e_e (Steve, theme)
ou (sound, cloud) ue (glue, tissue) oe (tomatoes, goes) i_e (slide, prize)
ie (tie, cried) aw (paw, yawn) au (launch, August) o_e (phone, note)
ea (steam, bead) wh (which, whisper) ey (money, trolley) u_e (June, flute)
oy (toy, royal) ph (dolphin, alphabet) a_e (snake, race) ow (snow, bowl)

12. Examples of words from Phase 5
light
Phase 5- alternative
Fried
Phase 5- split diagraph
Slide
Phase 5- alternative
happy, beach, donkey, field
Phase 3
tree
Phase 5- split diagraph
these

13. Examples of alien words from Phase 5
glorpide
meacher

14. Here is an example of what the test will look like...

15. How can you help?
When reading with children, encourage them to put the sounds buttons under a word to highlight the sounds that make the word.
Encourage the children when they are writing to use their phonics to spell a word rather than spelling it out for them.
Encourage the children to put the sound buttons under the words to find the digraphs/trigraphs/split-digraphs.
Read regularly at home.

16. How can you help?
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 and re-read to check it makes sense.
You can go online and get examples of previous tests if you would like to practice at home.
(scroll down and there is lots of past papers)

17. Any Questions?