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Functional Illiteracy
22% of the adult U.K population is
functionally illiterate
• Costing the U.K £81billion
annually
• Highest cost of any European
Nation
National focus on Literacy
• Year 1 Reading Check – 2012
• Ofsted requirements – 2012
• Changes to KS2 SAT’s 2013
Phonics Terminology
• Phoneme. The smallest unit of
sound. (a,ai,igh)
• Grapheme. The written
representation of a phoneme.
(a,ai,igh)
• Segmenting. Sounding out.(c-a-t)
• Blending. Putting all the sounds
together in a word.
Phoneme Count
• Cat
• Play
• Great
• Plank
• Strift
• Pencil
• Activity
• Boy
Pure enunciation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=P-eTO8L3t40
Expectations
By the end of Reception
• 85% of children will be able to
read and write vowel digraphs,
two-syllable words, use letter
names etc.
• Secure Phase 3/4
• Red, Yellow or Blue
Expectations
By the end of Year 1
• 85% of children will be able to
segment and blend words for
reading and writing, read 2 and 3
syllable decodable words, read
100 common words, no longer
sounding out etc.
• Phase 5/6
• Book Bands Yellow, Blue or Green
Phase 1
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Seven Aspects
Three strands in each
Modelling Speaking and Listening
Introduces oral blending and
segmenting in Aspect 7
• Adult-led activities
• Illustrated freely chosen activities
• Continues well beyond introduction of
Phase 2
Phase 2
• Introduces 19 grapheme-phoneme
correspondences
• Decoding and encoding taught as
reversible processes
• As soon as children have a small
number of grapheme/phoneme
correspondences, blending and
segmenting can start (s,a,t,p,i,n)
• “Tricky” words
TYPICAL DURATION : Up to 6 weeks
Phase 3
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Introduces another 25 graphemes
Most comprising two letters
Representation of each of the 43 GPCs
Reading and spelling two syllable
words and captions
• Letter names are taught
TYPICAL DURATION : 12 weeks
Phase 4
• Consolidates knowledge of GPCs
• Introduces alternative
pronunciations for reading
• No new GPCs
TYPICAL DURATION : 4 – 6 weeks
Phase 5
• Introduces alternative
graphemes for spelling
• Introduces alternative
pronunciations for reading
• Developing automaticity
Throughout Year 1
Phase 6
• Increasing fluency and accuracy
• Throughout Year Two (although
teaching of spelling continues
well into KS2)
• Year2 and Year3 Planning
exemplification and spelling
programme (PwS CD-Rom)