Transcript Year 1 Phonic Screening Check presentation

Year 1 Phonic Screening
Check
Thursday 8th June 2015
at 3.00pm
What is phonics?
• Simply the relationship between
letters and sounds in a language.
• Words are made up of small units of
sounds called phonemes.
• Phonics teaches children to identify
the phonemes that make up each
word.
What is phonics? (cont)
Phonemes ( a sound in a word)
e.g. c a t (3 phonemes)
Graphemes (letters or sequences of
letters that represent a phoneme, can
be 1,2,3,4 letters)
e.g.
f/i/sh
NOT f/i/s/h
kn/igh/t NOT k/n/i/g/h/t
sh/i/p
NOT s/h/i/p
What is phonics? (cont)
Blending
This is when children say the sounds that make a
word and they are able to merge the sounds
together until they hear what the word is.
Vital for learning to read!
Segmenting
The opposite to blending, children say a word and
break it up into the phonemes that make it up.
Vital for learning to spell!
Have a go…
• How many phonemes in:
meat
clue
bike
puzzle
sunflower
What are the Year 1
Phonic Screening Checks?
• A short, nationally directed, 1:1 test
for all Year 1 aged pupils conducted
by their class teacher.
• This test assesses whether each
child has learnt phonic decoding to an
appropriate level.
Why does my child have
to undertake this check?
• It is a statutory requirement for all
schools.
• To make sure that all pupils have
grasped fundamental phonics skills
and to see that nobody slips through
the net.
When will my child
complete the check?
• All checks will take place during the
week beginning the 15th June 2015.
Who administers the
check to my child?
• Each child will undertake the check
with their class teacher in a quiet
room away from the rest of the
class.
• The check takes between four to
nine minutes long.
How are the checks
administered?
• Low-key, no fuss, not made into a big thing.
• The check comprises of a list of 40 words
and non-words (these are referred to as
pseudo words).
• Half the words cover phonics skills which
tend to be covered in Reception, and half
the words are based on Year 1 phonics
skills.
• Your child needs to read the words to
their teacher correctly.
Examples of words
Words
Section 1
(Reception)
Section 2
(Year 1)
Non-words
cat (cvc)
wish (cvcc)
vap (cvc)
geck (cvcc)
slide (ccvcc)
trains (ccvvc)
voo (cvv)
spron (cccvc)
Non – words are included because they will be new to
all pupils, so there won’t be a bias to those with a good
vocabulary knowledge or visual memory of words.
What happens if my child
does not reach the
standard?
• You will be informed, via the school report,
if your child has not achieved the
expected level.
• Extra support will be provided for children
who fail to achieve the national standard.
• These children will then be able to re-take
the assessment in Year 2.
Any questions?