Year 1 Parents’ Briefing Phonics, Spelling and Reading

Today’s Briefing

• Phonics – A recap

• The Phonics Screening Check

• Spelling – Phonics, High Frequency and ‘Tricky’

• Books and Reading

• Questions and Answers

• Resources

Letters and Sounds

• Phase 1 (Nursery)

• Phases 2, 3 & 4 (Reception) – ‘Jolly Phonics’ to introduce sounds

• Phase 5 (Year 1)

• Phase 6 (Year 2)

All words are made up of

sounds

cat chip sight phonics

Understanding Phonics

42 sounds

42 sounds

42 sounds

n nuh

f fuh

42 sounds

42 sounds

t sh igh

42 sounds

In Reception; Simple Code (One grapheme for each phoneme)

Phases 2, 3 & 4

42 sounds

Spelled in different ways

Phase 5

s ss se c ce

sat dress horse circle piece

Over 150 ways to spell the 42 sounds

This is our job in Year 1!

Alternative pronunciations

u: but unit pull a: hat acorn fast was

Alternative spellings

/c/: k ck qu ch /sh/: ch t ss s c

New graphemes

ay (day) oy (boy) wh (when) ou (out) ir (girl) ph (photo) ie (tie) ue (blue) ew (new) ea (eat) aw (saw) oe (toe) ey (honey) au (Paul)

New graphemes

a-e (make) e-e (these) i-e (like) o-e (home) u-e (rule)

New phoneme

zh (vision)

Our Approach

• Daily lesson

• All sorts of ways!

• Explore the resources

The Phonics Screening Check

• All Year 1 children in England

• June 2017

• 40 words

• 5 – 10 minutes

• Real and Pseudo words – all decodable

Pseudo – Alien words

Specific Issues – split digraph!

rat cod mad kit them

rate code made kite theme

Specific Issues – split digraph!

splide frode explate stite

Specific Issues – trigraph

light splight sight nigh

Spelling

• Phonics

• High Frequency Words

• Tricky Words

Learning

• Time in school and at home

• Lots of different ways to learn

• Recognise difference between words which can be ‘sounded out’ and those which just need learning!

Assessment

• Write words from memory

• ‘Topped Up’ by adult prompt

• ‘Mega Spell’ every half term or so

• Self generated lists

• Dictation sentences to support using words in context

Reading

• Book ‘banded’ books

• Library books

• Other books

Reading skills

• Phonics

• Tricky words

• Reading a range of texts

• Comprehension, discussion and explanation

• Library visits

• Reading with your child

• Bedtime stories

• The text environment

Reading for enjoyment!

Next Steps…

• Website Resources

• Email this week

• Future email updates

• Questions…