Welcome to the Year 1 Reading & Phonics meeting

Purpose of the meeting:

*To explain the process of phonics teaching within Holy Trinity.

*To improve confidence in supporting your child with their phonics learning by sharing activities and resources used in school.

*To explain the Year 1 Phonics screening check which will take place in June.

*To recap the strategies introduced in Reception which will help your child with

their reading.

Reading in class involves……

Weekly individual reading with an adult using: Oxford Reading Tree, Ginn, Project X and other reading scheme books

Weekly Group Guided Reading session with the class teacher

Continuous reading assessment throughout the year on the 7 areas of reading.

Encouraging the children to learn tricky words as sight vocabulary e.g. said, what, here…

Teaching the children to blend sounds into words using phonic knowledge.

There are seven focus areas that the teacher will be using to assess each child's

reading.1. Use a range of strategies including accurate decoding

of text for meaning.2. Understand, describe, select or retrieve information,

events or ideas from texts and use quotation and reference to text.

3. Deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas in the texts.

4. Identify and comment on the structure and (if possible) the organisation of texts, including grammatical and literary features at text level.

5. Explain and comment on the writer’s use of language, including grammatical and literary features at sentence and word level.

6. Identify and comment on writer’s purposes and viewpoints and the overall effect of the text on the reader.

7. Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical contexts and literary traditions.

What strategies should I be encouraging my child to use?

*Phonics – sounding words out*Learning the tricky words by sight e.g. come*Splitting words into small groups of letters e.g. un der stand*Reading for meaning – using context clues*Self correction*Reading on and filling in unknown word*Picture clues

Supporting Reading at Home

Daily reading using school reading books.Finding a quiet place for readingPlaying reading gamesLetting your child ‘catch’ you readingVisiting the local library together and book

browsingSharing a favourite book together – even if

it is for the tenth time!Making reading a habitEnsuring that is an enjoyable shared

experience where new knowledge is gained!

The children are taught to read and write by breaking down words into separate sounds or ‘phonemes’. They are then taught how to blend these sounds together to read the whole word.

Children in Key Stage 1 have a daily 20 minute phonics lesson and they are also encouraged to use these strategies to read and write in other lessons.

There are around 40 different sounds.

What is Phonics?

Phonics – the learning of letters and soundsPhoneme – the smallest unit of sound in a

wordGrapheme – the written symbol of a

phonemeBlending – running phonemes together to

make a wordSegmenting – breaking a word down into

phonemes to spell

Phonics Terminology

BLENDINGBuilding words from phonemes to

read.

c a tcat

BLENDINGt r a n s c r i p t o m

e

transcriptome

SEGMENTINGBreaking down words for spelling.

Catc a t

SEGMENTING

Queenqu ee n

At Holy Trinity, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme. Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education which consists of six phases.

Phases 1-3 are introduced throughout Reception within the daily phonics session.

Phase 3Set 6: j, v, w, xSet 7: y, z, zz, quConsonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ngVowel digraphs & trigraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er

The correct articulation of these phonemes is very important for both reading and writing.Think about your mouthhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s

Phase 4

This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases with daily practise of segmenting and

blending.

*Children 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

Examples of resources, games etc

• Flashcards

• Buried treasure game

• Full circle – using whiteboards

• Phonicsplay.co.uk – pick a picture, investigating alternative spellings games

• Sentence substitution

• Choosing the odd one out

• DJ Cow wordsearch with a sound focus

• Every Year 1 child in the country will be taking the phonics screening check in the same week in June.

• The aim of the check is to ensure that all children are able to read by the end of year two.

• This ‘midpoint check’ helps us to identify those who may need more support with reading.

• The check is very similar to tasks the children already complete during phonics lessons.

• Children will be asked to ‘sound out’ a word and blend the sounds together e.g d-o-g - dog

• The focus of the check is to see which sounds the children know and therefore the children will be asked to read made up ‘nonsense’ words.

THIS IS NOT A READING TEST

Encourage your child to ‘sound out’ when reading or writing. Focusing particularly on spotting more unusual sound patterns.

Encourage your child to use their sound mat when writing and use their actions to find the sound they need.

Play words games at home little and often.

• REMEMBER: Phonics is not the only thing needed to become a fluent reader.

• Please continue to read with your child each night and encourage them to:

• Sound out

• Learn tricky words by sight.

• Re-read to check it makes sense, allow child to self correct.

• Use pictures for clues.

• Ask questions about the book.

• And most importantly ENJOY READING!

Supporting Reading at Home

Daily reading using school reading books.Finding a quiet place for readingPlaying reading gamesLetting your child ‘catch’ you readingVisiting the local library together and book

browsingSharing a favourite book together – even if

it is for the tenth time!Making reading a habitEnsuring that is an enjoyable shared

experience where new knowledge is gained!