Children have daily phonics lessons delivered

through our Read Write Inc (RWI) sessions.

Children are taught to read by breaking down

words into separate soundssounds or ‘phonemes’.

They are then taught how to blendblend these sounds

together to read the whole word;

There are around 40 different sounds.

Every Year 1 child in the country will be taking a

statutory phonics screening check in the same week.

Week beginning 15th June 2015

All schools must comply with the check in order for the

Government to gain an overall understanding of how successful

phonics is in teaching a child to read.

The focus of the check is to provide evidence of

children’s decoding and blending skills, not to test their

vocabulary or comprehension skills.

Each check will take around 10 minutes to

complete; alongside their class teacher.

They will be asked to ‘sound out’ a word and

blend the sounds together. e.g. d-o-g – dog

The check will consist of 40 words and non-

words;

Children will be told if the word is a real or

‘alien’ word, with a corresponding alien image.

chain

dawn

nurse

control

chone

gare

vaym

espox

Teachers will conduct all of the

screening checks with the children;

The children will complete the check one to one

in a quiet area of the school;

We are not permitted to indicate to the children

at the time whether they have correctly

sounded out and / or blended the word.

Each child will be scored against a national

standard (threshold yet to be determined by DfE).

We will inform you of whether they fall below or

within this standard.

If your child’s score falls below the national

standard they will re-take the phonics

screening check in year 2.

The screening check will take place

throughout the week beginning

Monday 15Monday 15thth June June.

It has been designed so that children of

all abilities will be able to take part.

rout•First, children find their “sound friend”, which in this case is ‘ou’. •Then, children say the phonemes that make up that word. These may be individual letters or digraphs (2 letters one sound)/trigraphs (3 letters one sound).•‘r’ ‘ou’ ‘t’.• Finally, they blend these altogether to read the nonsense word ‘rout’.

rout

phonephone• First, children look for sound friends,in this

case there are 2 ‘ph’ ‘o-e’. • Then, children say the phonemes that make up

that word. These may be individual letters or digraphs (2 letters one sound)/trigraphs (3 letters one sound).

• ‘ph’ ‘o-e’ ‘n’.• Finally, they blend these altogether to read the

real word ‘phone’.

shep•Many children would auto-correct and read this nonsense word as the real word ‘sheep’. •This word in particular highlights the importance of children using the given technique.

shep

dentist• There are some words which may not

include any sound friends such as the example shown.

• When supporting your child in their reading, encourage them

to use the technique we have shown you to read new and

unfamiliar words.

• We will send home some practise words for you to try with

your child. Ensure you practise these on a daily basis,

sounding out the real and nonsense words on the back. Work

on them little and often! (if you are unsure of pronunciation of

some sounds, please look here

http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/resources/sound-pronunciation-

guide/

or ask your child’s teacher).