1. Phonics Workshop for Year 1 Parents Thursday 7th March 2019

2. Programme Welcome and Overview of session.
The June 2019 Year 1 phonics screening
The 6 Phases of teaching phonics.
Games and resources to use at home, including useful websites.
Questions.

3. Learning to Read and Write
Before Letters and Sounds
Speaking and listening skills are vital for later success in reading and writing.
The greater the vocabulary a child has, the easier they should learn to read and write.
Teaching Phonics
The teaching of phonics involves teaching children about the relationship between letters and the sounds they make.
Phonics teaches children to use their knowledge of letters and sounds to read and write words.

4. The Year 1 phonics screening
The national Year 1 phonics screening check was introduced in 2012
The phonics screening is designed to check children's knowledge of phonics at the end of Year 1
Accurate reading at the age of 6 is a good predictor of future reading success
There are 40 words to be read which take between 2-5 mins. It is made up of 20 real words and 20 nonsense words

5. The 6 Phases

6. Phase 1-3 (EYFS)
Phase 1 (Nursery) Showing an awareness of rhyme and alliteration, exploring and experimenting with sounds and words, beginning to orally blend and segment phonemes.
Phase 2 (For 6 weeks in Reception) Learning the first 19 letters of the alphabet and one sound (phoneme) for each, blending sounds for reading and segmenting for spelling simple words, e.g. cat, dog, understanding that we can write sounds (phonemes), reading simple captions.
Phase 3 (For 12 weeks in Reception) Learning 7 more letters of the alphabet and their written form (grapheme), reading and spelling a wide range of simple cvc words, reading and spelling some words with 2 letter graphemes, e.g. chip, moon, night, reading simple captions and sentences.

7. Blending
Recognising the letter sounds in a written word, e.g. c-u-p, and ‘blending’ them in the order in which they are written to pronounce the word cup.
Nonsense words are also incorporated from phase 3 so that children have early exposure and a strong knowledge of sounds to use.

8. Phase 3 - Letter Progression
Graphemes:
ear, air, ure, er, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo
Pairs of letters (Consonant digraphs):
ch, sh, th, ng.
Letter Progression:
Set 6 - j, v, w, x
Set 7 - y, z, zz, qu

9. Phase 4 ( Reception for 4-6 weeks)
Continue to practice skills taught in Phase 3 and start to blend and segment more complex words, e.g.
went stand shrink

10. Once children are good with single phonemes…
DIGRAPHS – 2 letters that make 1 sound
ll ss zz oa ai
TRIGRAPHS – 3 letters that make 1 sound
igh dge

11. Phase 5 (throughout Year 1)
Teaching children more ways of pronouncing graphemes already taught, e.g. a can make a different sound as in cat, bath, plate.

12. Phase 6 (throughout Year 2)
Children learn about different ways of spelling words that sound the same, e.g. see/sea, bed/head.
Adding new bits to the beginning of words (prefixes) and to the end of words (suffixes).
Becoming more fluent in using all of the skills and knowledge learned in phases 2 to 5.

13. The phonics check
The class teacher will administer the check with each child.
Children will be encouraged to use their sounds to segment the words and use strategies taught during lessons e.g., phonic fingers, sound buttons, rainbow fingers.
van chop cube

14. 20 nonsense words
The 20 nonsense words will have an alien next to each word to remind the children it is not a real word
They can still use the sounds taught throughout the 6 phases to successfully read them
Children who can read
nonsense words will
soon be able to read
any new words.

15. Teaching Letter Sounds (Phonemes)
Correct pronunciation is vital.
We all need to use the same language at home and at school.
Little and often is the key.
Try to make activities fun. If your child is enjoying activities they will learn more.

16. General strategies used in school
Daily phonics sessions where adults teach or consolidate the sounds within each phase.
Strategies modelled by the adults include; sound buttons, phonics fingers and rainbow fingers.
Games, activities and books are used as an opportunity for the children to apply the skills/strategies taught.
Interim assessments are used to closely monitor progress within the classes.

17. What do your children need?
To build up confidence and experience.
To use the homework materials sent weekly.
Watch out for this new phonics
homework coming out soon.
Frequent reading opportunities
To identify real and nonsense words

18. Now you have the knowledge….
Play lots of sound and listening games with your child.
Read as much as possible to and with your child.
Encourage and praise – get them to have a ‘good guess’.
Ask your child’s teacher if you want to know more.

19. Useful websites http://vle.barkingcollege.ac.uk/cw_testbed/infants.
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21. Phonicsplay.co.uk