WELCOME TO THE YEAR 1 PHONICS MEETING!

Thursday 4th April 2019

WHAT IS PHONICS?Phonics is all about using skills for reading and spelling and the

knowledge of the alphabet. Learning phonics will help your child

to become a good reader and writer.

Words are made up from small units of sound called

phonemes.

Phonics teaches children to be able to listen carefully and

identify the phonemes that make up each word.

WHAT IS TAUGHT?In phonics lessons children are taught three main aspects:

GPCs

This stands for Grapheme Phoneme Correspondences. This simply means that

they are taught all the phonemes in the English language and the ways of

writing them down.

Blending

This is when children say the sounds that make up a word and are able to

merge the sounds together until they can hear what the word is. This skill is vital

in learning to read.

Segmenting

Children are able to say or hear a word and then break it up into the phonemes

that make it up. This skill is vital in being able to spell words.

OTHER KEY TERMINOLOGY

Digraph - A grapheme containing two letters that makes just one sound (phoneme).

Split digraph- When a digraph is split by a consonant it becomes a split digraph.

For example: wrote – the 'o-e' here make one sound.

Trigraph - A grapheme containing three letters that makes just one sound (phoneme).

DAILY PHONICS

• Every day the children will have a 15-20 minute session of phonics.

• Lessons are fast paced and encompass a range of games, songs, and

rhymes.

• We use the Letters and Sounds planning document to support the teaching

of phonics.

• There are 6 phonics phases which the children work through at their own

pace.

PHASE 2

In Phase 2, letters and their sounds are introduced one at a time. A set of letters is taught each week, in the following sequence:

Set 1: s, a, t, pSet 2: i, n, m, dSet 3: g, o, c, kSet 4: ck, e, u, rSet 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

PHASE 2 CVC WORDS

satpin

As soon as each set of letters is introduced, children will be encouraged

to use their knowledge of the letter sounds to blend and sound out words.

tap

sip

napkip

duck

BLENDING

Children will need to be able to hear the separate sounds in a

word and then blend them together to say the whole word.

s a tsat

d u ck

duck

BLENDING

SEGMENTING

Children need to be able to hear a whole word and

say every sound they hear.

sats a t

The correct pronunciation of sounds is vital for

developing a fluent reader.

SEGMENTING

duckd u ck

By the time they reach Phase 3, children will already be able to blend

and segment words containing the 19 letters taught in Phase 2.

Set 6: j, v, w, x

Set 7: y, z, zz, qu

Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng

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

PHASE 3

PHASE 3 WORDS

chip shop ring

pain feet boat

coin fair boot farm burn book

mixer

PHASE 4

Phase 4 doesn’t introduce any new phonemes.

It focuses on consolidating children’s learning from phases

2 and 3 and focuses on reading and spelling longer words

with the phonemes they already know.

These words have consonant clusters at the beginning and

ends of words.

PHASE 4 WORDS WITH CONSONANT CLUSTERS

plum twin spoon

sport spend trust

steep damp mend

clap steep

PHASE 5Children will be taught new graphemes and alternative

pronunciations for these graphemes.

Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au

Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

PHASE 5 ALTERNATIVE PRONUNCIATIONS

fin/find cat/cent

got/giant eat/bread

chin/chef

you/could

PHASE 5 SPLIT DIAGRAPHS

A split digraph is a digraph that is split by a consonant.

Usually a long vowel sound.

PHASE 6

The focus is on learning spelling rules for suffixes.

WHAT DOES A PHONICS LESSON LOOK LIKE?

PHONICS SCREENING CHECK

The Year 1 phonics screening check is not a formal test, but a way

for teachers to ensure that children are making sufficient progress

with their phonics skills and that they are on track to become

fluent readers who can enjoy reading for pleasure and for learning.

The checks consist of 40 words and non-words that a child will be asked to read one-on-one with a teacher.

Each of the non-words is presented with a picture of a monster/

alien, as if the word were their name.

PHONICS SCREENING CHECK

PHONICS SCREENING CHECK WEEK

Week commencing 10th June 2019

. Teacher always conducts the check.

. If a child is unsuccessful, they will retake the check

in Year 2 and one to one phonics interventions will be

carried out throughout the year.

. Pass mark.

IDEAS FOR HOME

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Eye spy

Sort the words into real or fake

Using whiteboards to practice letter formations and spellings

e.g. tray or trai

Writing silly sentences

Reading everyday with your child if possible

PHONICS SCREENING CHECK INFORMATION AND RESOURCE PACK