1. Functional Illiteracy 22% of the adult U.K population is functionally illiterate Costing the U.K £81billion annually Highest cost of any European Nation

2. National focus on Literacy Year 1 Reading Check – 2012 Ofsted requirements – 2012 Changes to KS2 SAT’s 2013

3. Phonics Terminology Phoneme. The smallest unit of sound. (a,ai,igh) Grapheme. The written representation of a phoneme. (a,ai,igh) Segmenting. Sounding out.(c-a-t) Blending. Putting all the sounds together in a word.

4. Phoneme Count Cat Play Great Plank Strift Pencil Activity Boy

5. Pure enunciation http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=P-eTO8L3t40

6. Expectations By the end of Reception 85% of children will be able to read and write vowel digraphs, two-syllable words, use letter names etc. Secure Phase 3/4 Red, Yellow or Blue

7. Expectations By the end of Year 1 85% of children will be able to segment and blend words for reading and writing, read 2 and 3 syllable decodable words, read 100 common words, no longer sounding out etc. Phase 5/6 Book Bands Yellow, Blue or Green

8. Phase 1 Seven Aspects Three strands in each Modelling Speaking and Listening Introduces oral blending and segmenting in Aspect 7 Adult-led activities Illustrated freely chosen activities Continues well beyond introduction of Phase 2

9. Phase 2 Introduces 19 grapheme-phoneme correspondences Decoding and encoding taught as reversible processes As soon as children have a small number of grapheme/phoneme correspondences, blending and segmenting can start (s,a,t,p,i,n) “Tricky” words TYPICAL DURATION : Up to 6 weeks

10. Phase 3 Introduces another 25 graphemes Most comprising two letters Representation of each of the 43 GPCs Reading and spelling two syllable words and captions Letter names are taught TYPICAL DURATION : 12 weeks

11. Phase 4 Consolidates knowledge of GPCs Introduces alternative pronunciations for reading No new GPCs TYPICAL DURATION : 4 – 6 weeks

12. Phase 5 Introduces alternative graphemes for spelling Introduces alternative pronunciations for reading Developing automaticity Throughout Year 1

13. Phase 6 Increasing fluency and accuracy Throughout Year Two (although teaching of spelling continues well into KS2) Year2 and Year3 Planning exemplification and spelling programme (PwS CD-Rom)