St Peters Eaton Square C of E Primary

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary Phonics

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary A complex alphabetic code Written English 26 letters 44 phonemes 150+ graphemes m-y t-i-n

Phonemes and graphemes St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary • The sound /aw/ can be represented as … or, saw, haul, lore, fraught, sought • The letters ow sounds different in crowd and in low • The letters ough are pronounced differently in through, rough and bough • The letter c represents a /s/ and a /k/ in circus

Simple view of reading St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary Rose Review 2006 Good language comprehension Poor word recognition Poor language comprehension Poor word recognition Good language comprehension Good word recognition Poor language comprehension Good word recognition

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary Early language comprehension

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary Word recognition - decoding Milton’s daughters ab uno disce omnes

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary Complex language comprehension dominates abandoned prospered relentlessly furrowing flailing deposit kittiwakes feverishly invariably baleful impotent involuntarily momentum anticipation reassure instinctively raucous restricting lodes and adits

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary Word recognition and decoding lachrymose Piddletrenthide floccinaucinihilipilification karyokinesis ha-ha

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary Good readers; • • have good language comprehension have good word recognition have learnt phonemes (letter sounds) can decode and blend words with ease read a lot and texts of increasing complexity build reading skills can encode phonemes into graphemes (letters) to spell read more, write more and learn more The Matthew Effect Keith Stanovitch

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary Research. . . at 9 years old Early exposure to rich language comprehension 8, 000 words read 99, 000 words heard 5, 100 story hours 9 years of complex language Exposure to basic language comprehension 32, 000 words read 36, 000 words heard 75 story hours instructional language Risley & Hart 1990 Later… Above average (Level 4+) 10+ GCSEs 4 A Levels University Below average (L 2 or 3) Less than 5 GCSEs or equivalent probably not English or Maths NEET

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary Learning to read Risley & Hart 1990

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary How Phonics is organised EYFS • • Y 1 and 2 Y 3+ Assessments and grouping 10 Teachers and 7 assistants Year 1 National Phonics Check in June Parent report

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary A Phonics group lesson Pace; fast builds on success Praise a lot Purpose for each activity Participation; my turn, your turn, partners Passion

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary A Phonics group lesson 1. Speed Sound Lesson • a new sound • revise learnt sounds • blending 2. Phoneme/grapheme link 3. Reading activities 4. Writing activities

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary A Phonics group lesson Speed Sound lesson m, a, s, d, t

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary A Phonics group lesson Speed Sound lesson m, a, s, d, t m-a-d mad sad dad mat sam

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary A Phonics group lesson Blue 1 Barker Activity 5 Hold a sentence SC: H gaps Full stop ed ng wh ll pp He started barking when we were all asleep.

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary A Phonics group lesson Blue 1 Barker Activity 7 Edit SC: Find 6 errors , H+W 3 spelling full stop he grabed an old hotdog from a bin. wen we got back to the car he lookt a bit ill

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary A Phonics group lesson Blue 1 Barker Activities 8&9 Composition Write a story about Barker – A bark in the dark. SC: Use power words: gobble, ruin, attack Capitals gaps full stops

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary Partner work in Phonics We learn; 10% of what we read 20% of what we see 30% of what we hear 50% of what we see and hear 70% of what we discuss with another person 85% of what we experience personally 95% of what we can teach someone else

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary Results Y 1 Phonics Check % achieving expected standard 2013 -2014 63% January 2014 Read Write Inc Phonics introduced 2014 -2015 82%

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary The Word Gap Study Risley and Hart 1995 A child at 9 years old. . . Early exposure to rich language Exposure to basic language comprehension 36, 000 words heard 99, 000 words heard 75 story hours 5, 100 story hours 32, 000 words read 8, 000 words read instructional language 9 years of enriched language Later? . . . Above average (Level 4+) 10+ GCSEs 4 A Levels University Below average (L 2 or 3) Less than 5 GCSEs or equivalent probably not English or Maths NEET

St Peter’s Eaton Square C of E Primary Parent support VIDEOS: Teaching the sounds Teaching two letters, one sound Teaching sound blending Other video support SOUND CARDS AND OTHER RESOURCES Parent resources from Read Write Inc.