2.  To explain the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check  To share how phonics and early reading is taught  To outline the different stages in phonic development  To share the basics of phonics and some useful phonics terms  To show examples of activities and resources we use to support you in helping your children with phonics and reading  To give you an opportunity to ask questions

3. Good word recognition + good understanding of language = successful reading + enjoyment!

4. Skills of segmenting & blending Knowledge of the alphabet

5. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system /uploads/attachment_data/file/190599/Letters_a nd_Sounds_-_DFES-00281-2007.pdf Age-related expectations for progress in phonics phases: By end of FS2 – Secure Phase 3 By end of Y1 – Secure Phase 5 By end of Y2 and beyond - Phase 6

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhX UW_v-1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djz82F BYiug

7.  A phoneme is simply a sound within a word e.g. ‘c’, ‘a’ and ‘t’ are the three phonemes in the word cat.

8.  A grapheme is a letter or a number of letters that represent a sound (phoneme)

9.  DigraphS are two letters which make one sound e.g. ‘ch’ as in children.  Trigraphs are three letters which make one sound e.g. ‘igh’ as in light.

10.  Children sound out the words that they see in order to blend the sounds together to read words e.g. “f-u-n, fun”.  High frequency words e.g. it, am, and.  Non-decodable, ‘tricky’ words e.g. the.

11.  Children segment the sounds in words to spell e.g. “shell, sh-e-ll”.  When segmenting ‘tricky’ words we spell them out using letter names.  Within the Early Years Foundation Stage children’s writing should be phonetically plausible.

12.  http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/ http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/  http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/  https://central.espresso.co.uk/ https://central.espresso.co.uk/ Username: student2703 Password: woodside Learning should be fun! Thank you!