1. Phonics Presentation
Tuesday 17th March2015

2. Why Teach Phonics ? The Importance of Phonics Synthetic phonics,
Sounds beyond abc
CVC, CVCC, CCVC
Teaching Phonics
Games
How you can help at home?

3. Synthetic Phonics
teaches letter/s-sound correspondences at a quick pace
immediately teaches how to blend the sounds for reading
c-a-t is cat, b-u-s is bus, s-t-o-p is stop
teaches phonemic awareness
teaches main digraphs (letter combinations) – for blending and segmenting
teaches irregular keywords (tricky words) – blending them but noting the regular and irregular/unusual parts
uses decodable texts initially – free choice of books when there is fluency
blending is the first and main strategy for reading unknown words

4. + Early Phonics Phonics is The Alphabet
Skills of blending and segmentation
The Alphabet +

5. Beyond abc 26 letters make 44 sounds
2 letter – th, ng
3 letter – ion, igh
4 letter – ough
The same spelling may represent more than one sound – live and live
One sound can have several graphemes
play, paid, same – ay, ai, a_e
Exclusions to rules - bread

6. CVC, CCVC, CVCC CVC cat, this, book, tape, teeth CVCC
best, help, rocks
CCVC
brush, crook, speak

7. CVC Word?
pig song car
sheep day for
boy whizz miss
fill keep huff

8. CVC Word pig song car X sheep day X for X boy X whizz miss
fill keep huff

9. Teaching Identify sounds in spoken words
Recognise common spellings for each phoneme
Blend phonemes into words for reading
Segment words into phonemes for spelling
Develop Sight Recognition words

10. Phonics Screening Check
Screening check will confirm whether children have learnt the skill of phonic decoding to an appropriate level
It is not a reading test
It does not replace assessments already in place
For the first year, this year, all Year One chn in the country will complete a task called a phonics screening check.
All chn will complete this check in the week commencing 18th June.

11. Phonics Screening Check
Each child will work one to one with an adult to complete the check
The check will take between 4-9 minutes per pupil
40 words
20 real words and 20 pseudo words
The screening check can be delivered by the teacher.
It takes 4 – 9 minutes depending on how much time chn need to apply their decoding skills.
The check is made up of 40 words. The words become increasingly more difficult as the check progresses. If a child is really struggling with the first 20 words the check will be stopped.
The pseudo words are nonsense words and they are included in this check because it is thought that they give the purest assessment of decoding since there is no way children will have come into contact with these words as part of their day-to day reading.
The pseudo words will be presented with a picture prompt that of an imaginary creature and the chn will be asked to read the word to name the creature. It is hoped that this will make it clear to the chn that they are reading a nonsense word that they shouldn’t be able to match to their existing vocabulary.
The real words used in the check are words which chn are less likely to have read previously. Again, this is so chn will need to decode using their phonics rather than rely on sight memory of words they have seen before.

12. Phonics Screening Check
Mark out of 40
Results included in end of year report
Some children tested again at the end of Year 2
Your child will achieve a mark out of 40.
The expectation is that chn will achieve 30 or above.
You will find out your child’s score in their end of year report. At no point will we share the results with the chn. Regradless of the score achieved, all chn will be praised at the end of the screening check for trying their best.
Any child who does not achieve 30 out of 40 will receive some type of intervention in school. This may be
-going out in a small group with a teaching assistant a couple of times a week to play some phonic games which are focused on their areas they need to develop
-extra reading of decodable reading books
-extra work sent home eg flashcards, games etc
Any children who achieve below 30 will be tested again at the end of Year 2.

13. How you can help your child at home?
Sound buttons
dog sheep

14. How you can help your child at home?
Sound buttons
dog sheep
Rhyming games
Web link to Mr.Thorne’s Phonics. will help you with how to annunciate the different phonemes.
Matching letters – capital to lower, HFW (High Frequency Words), snap, pairs and bingo.

15. How you can help your child at home?
play games where you can practise segmenting real & non-sense words from all phases.
Chop words up into their phonemes
e.g. ch-o-p
Play full circle – change one letter each time ship – shop - shot