Phonics in Year 1

Julie PhillippoBracknell Forest

Family Learning Team

You will learn:

• How to use phonics to blend and segment a word

• What children will be learning in year 1 phonics lessons

• What you can do at home to support their learning in fun ways

Phonics – a few things you should know…

• Phonics is about linking the sounds of

spoken language to written letters

(graphemes)

• A phoneme is a unit of sound

• Spoken English is divided into about 42

phonemes.

• Phonics schemes are based on these 42

phonemes.

Segmenting the sounds

• In order to spell, children must learn to hear the sounds within words.

• I want to write about a

• I must hear the word in my head and split it up into individual sounds.

In order to read, children need to learn to blend the sounds

together they see on the page.

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Letters and Sounds – 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

• Set 6: j v w x(ks)

• Set 7: y z,zz qu(kw)

• Phases 2- 3

Some sounds are represented by more than 1

grapheme

ship

sh . i . p

Digraphs

• Some sounds are represented by two letters. These are called digraphs.

• e.g. sh, ch, ng, oo

• And some need 3 letters: • igh, ear, ure

Trigraphs

Digraphs and Trigraphs

ch - chip ar - farmsh - shop or – forth – thin/then ur - hurt

ure - sure ow - cowai – rain ee - feetng - sing oi - coinigh - night air - fairoo – book, spoon er - corner

Phase 3

Phoneme frame

• Segment the word.• Write one phoneme in each square.

•fish

•wing

f-i-sh

w-i-ng

Letters and Sounds

• A phonics scheme divided into 5 phases.

• Phases 2-4 covered in reception (though children will still need to recap what they learnt in reception and build upon it.)

• Phase 5 covered in year 1• Phase 6 covered in year 2

Phase 4 (taught towards the end of reception)

• Blend and segment adjacent consonants

frog f–r–o–g

eg clock, train, fresh

Phase 5 – year 1• Alternative spellings for some of the

phonemes they have already met in earlier phases.

Challenge: write a list of as many words as possible that have an ‘ai’ sound in them; as in

They don’t have to be spelt with ai

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Alternative spellings for the ai sound

a angel

a-e cake

-ae sundae

-eigh eight

-ey grey

ea break

-ay tray

Split Digraph

a-e e-e i-e o-e u-e

camemademake

thesePeteSteve

liketimepine

bonepole

home

Junehugerude

takegamerace

evenscene

extreme

ripeshinenice

alonethosestone

ruletubeuse

Year 1 Phonics Screening Test

• An assessment of the child’s ability to decode words using phonics.

• The aim is to pick up any children who are struggling with phonics, so that they can be given extra support.

• All schools must set the test in a specified week in June. (End of year 1)

• It takes 4-8 minutes.• Children are asked to read a list of 40 words

– some are real words and some are non-words.

Games and activities to play at home

• Play with magnetic lower case letters – write a simple sentence or a word for your child to find on the fridge!

• Use post-it notes or a white board to write on• Have fun with writing words in shaving foam

on the bath tiles• Hide some letters around the garden or

house – can your child collect the right letters to make a 3 or 4 letter word? (stop, spot, frog, green, track, spin, flag, wind, lamp, nest, sink, hunt, bank, toast, chimp, thank, spoon)

• For children who like trains or cars – blutac some letters onto toy vehicles; can they ‘park’ them so that they spell a word?

• Cut up a word from your child’s spelling list – can they put it back together again?

• Play Full Circle Use magnetic letters to make a word. Change one letter each time to make a new word until you get back to the original e.g. park-part-tart-dart-dark-park-full circle!

Online Games and Activities

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/index.shtml

• Some lovely games to practise long-vowel sounds, CVC words and adjacent consonants. Activities to print out as well as online games.

• http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-site/fun-ideas/age-5-6--2

• Age appropriate activities – not just phonics.

• http://www.ictgames.com/blendingBingo_LS.html

• If you have a printer, you can print off bingo cards with words on them. Then play with the online bingo game. Good for practising blending.

• http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html

• Read the words and sort them into real and nonsense words. Based on a pirate theme.

http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/literacy/letters-and-sounds/Activites and games to print out linked to the different phases of the Letters and Sounds scheme.