to explain the year 1 phonics screening check to share how phonics and early reading is taught to...

Letters and SoundsWoodside Primary School

October 2015

Aims of the session 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

Successful reading

Good word recognition +

good understanding of language

= successful reading

+ enjoyment!

Phonics

Skills of segmenting &

blending

Knowledge of the alphabet

Letters and sounds

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/190599/Letters_and_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

Phonemes and graphemes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djz82FBYiug

What is a phoneme?

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

What is a grapheme?

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

What are digraphs and trigraph?

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.

Sounding out and blending

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.

Segmenting to spell

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.

How can we help at home?

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

https://central.espresso.co.uk/

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Learning should be fun!

Thank you!