Marlborough Primary School Y 1 Reading and Phonics

Marlborough Primary School Y 1 Reading and Phonics th Tuesday 24 September Article 28: You have the right to an education.

Overview • Teaching and Learning of Phonics • Supporting your child at home • Questions

Phonics • Government Initiative – Letters and Sounds. • Children take part in two separate 30 minute daily phonic session. • One daily whole class session as well as one focussed session pitched to their specific needs.

What is phonics? • Phonics is the understanding of how letters combine to make words. • We teach by slowly creating a working knowledge of the letter sounds. • Although there are 26 letters in the English alphabet, there are more than 40 speech sounds.

What is the Phonics Screening? • At the end of Year 1, all children in the country partake in a Phonics Screening. • This is a formative assessment tool to assess the children’s attainment of Phonics. • This is reported to parents, the LEA and the government. It is used as a means to compare schools and also allows the school to identify gaps in children’s phonics knowledge.

Language of Phonics Phonemes – you hear Graphemes – you see

Phase 1 Learning to read begins in nursery where children are encouraged to listen carefully and distinguish sounds.

Phase 2 In Reception children are first taught 19 letters (grapheme) of the alphabet and the sounds (phoneme) they represent. They also learn some two letter graphemes e. g. ck, ll, ff, ss

Phase 2 The letters are introduced in a specific order. They begin with these six. s, a, t, p, i, n

Phase 2

Phase 3 • The children are taught a further 25 graphemes mostly of two or more letters. • By the end of this phase they will know one representation for 42 phonemes. • The children are encouraged to write two letter graphemes as a joined unit.

Phase 3

Phase 4 • In Phase 4, children are taught to read and spell words with adjacent consonants, e. g. nd grand, st stamp, ch chomp, scratch • They may be at the beginning and/or end of a word.

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Phase 5 • Phase 5 continues throughout Year 1. Children are taught one new phoneme, zh as is vision and leisure. • They are introduced to a further 19 graphemes of 2 or more letters, mostly vowel diagraphs. • They learn that the same grapheme can be pronounced in different ways e. g. ow in grow and down. • That the same sound can be represented in different ways e. g. tree/leaf.

Phase 5

Phase 6 • By phase 6 the majority of the children should be able to read aloud and silently for pleasure and information. • This phase, in the second half of Year 2, focuses on spelling development. • The children are introduced to spelling patterns e. g. past tense verbs, suffixes and prefixes syllables and compound words.

Phase 6

How can I support at home? • Encourage your child to use the phonemes when reading and writing. • Read to your child as well as listening to them read. • Read in everyday contexts e. g. shopping lists, recipes, signs, menus, etc. • Play games e. g. I spy…, Junior Scrabble, Build a Man, etc. • Ensure that your child completes their weekly spelling sheet.

Useful Websites • Youtube – Alphablocks, Mr Thorne does phonics, Mr Brock does phonics • ICT games • Starfall • Teach your monster to read • Oxford Owl • BBC Literacy

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