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Oliver Goldsmith Primary School

“Inspiring a love of learning”

Parent Time

Year 1 Phonics

Tuesday 7th November 2017

Wednesday 8th November 2017



Introductions & Housekeeping…

• Mrs Dean – Deputy Headteacher• Ms Brown – Year 1 teacher• Evacuation if alarm sounds (not planned)



Aims of the session• Share our school’s approach to teaching

phonics and early reading.

• Share information about the Phonics

Screening Check.

• Share Ideas, games and resources.



What is phonics?• Phonics is the link between letters and the sounds they make.

• Although there are 26 letters in the English alphabet, there are 44 speech

sounds.

• Phonics makes learning to read easier, simpler and crucially gets children

reading quicker.

• This helps to increase a child's confidence and instil a love of reading from an

early age.

• Rather than memorising 1,000's of words individually, children are instead taught a phonics ‘code’.

• This code helps children work out how to read 95% of the English language.

• If you didn't learn to read using phonics it can seem very complicated, but once

the concept of words being made up of just 44 sounds is understood, children are able to make remarkably quick progress in their reading.



Phonics code breaker • Phoneme - a sound as it is said (e.g. s - ss)

• Grapheme - a sound that is written (e.g. s - ess)

• Digraph- two letters that work together to make the same

sound (e.g. ck – pick)

• Trigraph - Three letters that work together to make the same

sound (night)

• Split digraph - Two letters that work together to make the

same sound, separated by another letter (a_e – ‘a’ came)



OGPS Phonics• Letters and Sounds

• Recognise the sounds that each letter makes.

• Identify the sounds that different combinations of letters make-

such

• Segment and blend these sounds together.

c-a-t

• Children can then use this knowledge to decode new words

they see or hear.



• Important that the sounds are taught in a particular order.

Phase 2-Nursery/Reception

Set 1: s, a, t, p

Set 2: i, n, m, d

Set 3: g, o, c, k

Set 4: ck, e, u, r

Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

Phase 3-Reception

Set 6: j, v, w, x

Set 7: y, z, zz, qu

Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng

Vowel digraphs/trigraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure,

er

Video

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



Phase 4-Reception/ Year 1

No new sounds are taught.

e.g. swim, clap

Phase 5-Year 1

Split digraphs a_e e_e i_e o_e u_e e.g bake time

Sounds pronounced in different ways e.g ‘ch’ chef school

Children learn different combinations of sounds

e.g ay-day, oy-boy.

Phase 6-Year 2 and beyond

Working on spelling rules.

e.g adding –ing -ed



The structure of a phonics session (20 minutes)

1. Revisit and review (5 minutes)

Showing flash cards of previously learnt sounds

2.Teach (5 minutes)

Teach the sound using objects- what sound does it start with, using magic

finger, magnetic letters, I spy, letter fans.

3. Practise (5 minutes)

Show sound buttons/fingers tap, showing that we read from left to right.

4. Apply (5 minutes)

Practise reading this sound and then writing the sound within a word



High Frequency Words

• Segment and blend (sounded out)

e.g. dad just went dog

Tricky words

• Some words can not be sounded out

e.g. are said the



The Phonics Screening Check

• The Phonics Screening Check is a government initiative.

• It is a check carried out nationally on all pupils in Year 1.

• If a child does not pass, they re-sit the test in Year 2.

• Range of real words and pseudo words (nonsense words).

• The test is carried out 1:1 with the class teacher.

• Takes around 15 mins per child.

Recent results:

• 2016 - 82% (national was 80%)

• 2017 - 78% (minus two new EAL pupils) 80% (national

was 81%)



How you can help your child with their phonicsMagnetic letters

Practical way to encourage children to become familiar with sounds and create words. Can be stuck on

the fridge!

Phonics flashcards

Evaluate what your child already knows. Using phonics flashcards, ask your child to identify each letter

sound. Then you can practise the letter sounds that your child finds difficult or doesn’t yet know.

Word games

Once your child is fairly confident with the letter sounds, you can try playing word games, such as ‘I

Spy’.

Books

Books from WHSmiths/pound shops on phonics. Read to your child and listen to them read.

Websites/Apps

See handout

Hairy Phonics



Thank you!

Questions?• Evaluation form

• Parent leaflet

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