Year One Phonics Screening Check Parent Workshop Mrs

Year One Phonics Screening Check Parent Workshop Mrs England

Parent Workshop • To familiarise you with some of the terminology used in our phonics sessions. • To talk to you about how the phonics check will be administered and what it looks like. • To provide you with some useful websites.

Phonics at a glance! + skills of segmentation and blending knowledge of the alphabetic code It is the vital initial step in teaching children to read but it is far from the whole picture. g n i d Sh are ea r d Re ad ing g n i d alo ud u o Gr ea r p

What does phonics consist of? • Identifying sounds in spoken words • Recognising the common spellings of each phoneme. • Blending phonemes into words for reading. • Segmenting words into phonemes for spelling.

At St Joseph’s we use… Children learn to blend sounds to read words. They then use short ‘ditties’ to practise early reading and writing before being taught more letter-sound correspondence.

At St Joseph’s… Children are taught in small groups. Each term the children are assessed and placed in the group that will allow them to work at the correct pace for them.

In Reception • Children first learn initial sounds and then start to segment and blend. c-a-t

In Reception

In total children learn 44 sounds.

In Year Two

Sounds link for parents

Definitions A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word. c-a-t A grapheme Letter(s) representing a phoneme. t ai igh

A phoneme can be represented/spelled in more than one way cat, kennel, chick c k ck all sound the same The same grapheme may represent more than one phoneme me, met.

Blending: Recognising the letter-sounds in a written word, for example c-u-p. Merging or synthesising them in the order in which they are written to pronounce the word ‘cup’.

Segmenting: Identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word (eg h-i-m). and writing down or manipulating the letters for each sound to form the word ‘him’.

Digraph: Two letters, which make one sound. A consonant digraph contains 2 consonants: sh ck th ll A vowel digraph contains at least one vowel: ai ee ar oy Trigraph: Three letters, which make one sound igh (high) ear (hear) air (hair)

Split digraph: A digraph in which the two letters are not adjacent – e. g. Make

The Screening check • Every Year 1 child in the country will be taking the phonics screening check in June. • The aim of the check is to ensure that all children are able to read by the end of Year 2. • This ‘midpoint check’ will ensure that we have a clear understanding of what the children need to learn in Year 2.

Example of words that have been in previous checks. Alien/nonsense words Real words

Suggestion of games/activities? • Words & Pictures-BBC Schools 4 -11 years • Phonics Play-Begin at Phase 3 and work your way up • Parents-Oxford Phonics Check Support • Mr Thorne does phonics - You. Tube

At home

Any questions?