Transcript Year 1 Phonics Workshop - Our Lady of Muswell School

Year 1
Phonics
Workshop
Aims of today’s session
• To give a brief outline of what
phonics is
• To inform and explain the Year 1
Phonics Screening Check
• To give ideas on how you can help
your child at home
Phonic terms your child will learn at school
• Phonemes: The smallest units of sound that are found
within a word e.g. c
• Grapheme: The spelling of the sound e.g. th
• Diagraph: Two letters that make one sound when read
e.g. ai
• Trigraphs: Three letters that make one sound e.g. igh
• CVC: Stands for consonant, vowel, consonant (cat)
• Segmenting is breaking up a word into its sounds (c-a-t)
• Blending: Putting the sounds together to read a word
(c-a-t is cat)
• Tricky words: Words that cannot easily be decoded e.g.
the, said and
Why phonics?
 Needed for reading and writing
 26 letters in the alphabet but there are 44
sounds (5 vowels)
 A phoneme can be represented by one or
more letters e.g. c, sh, igh
 The same phoneme can be spelt in more than
one way e.g. rain, may, lake
 The same spelling may represent more than
one phoneme e.g. ea in mean, deaf
Phases 1-6
 Phase 1: phonological awareness (ongoing)
 Phase 2: s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r,
h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss
 Phase 3: j, v, w, x, y, z, qu, sh, ch, th, ng, ai, ee,
igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er
 Phase 4: Focus on applying the sounds. (No new
sounds are taught here)
 Phase 5: Alternative spellings of sounds such as
ay, ie, ea etc
 Phase 6: spelling (year 2)
By the end of Year 1 the national average is Phase 5.
The national average for Year 2 is Phase 6.
Phoneme Frames
 Great for learning sounds and how to apply them
 Help with spellings
c
a
t
f
n
igh
t
c
i
a
sh
k
e
Phoneme frames activity
brute
black
duck
strike
fill
Nonsense words
fot
herks
veen
flarm
quigh
blan
geck
quorg
voisk
zale
Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
• A national statutory assessment for all
children in Year 1
• Takes place during W/B 13th June 2016
• Phonics check is designed to confirm
whether children have learnt phonics
decoding to an appropriate standard – it’s
not a reading test
• Administered in a quiet room/area 1-1
with the class teacher
Phonics Screening Check
• The Phonics Screening Check comprises of
a list of 40 words
• The list is a combination of both real words
and pseudo- words – 20 of each
• Using pseudo- words allows this assessment
to focus purely on decoding using phonics
• Pseudo- words shown with pictures of
imaginary creatures next to them
Phonic assessment
Is there anything you can do at home?
y
e
s
• When spelling, encourage your child to
think about what “looks right”.
• Have fun trying out different options…wipe
clean whiteboards are good for trying out
spellings.
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tray
rain
boil
boy
throat
snow
trai
rayn
boyl
boi
throwt
snoa
Final thought
If parents engage with their
children's education, the attainment
of the child will increase by 15% no
matter what the social background of
the family.
- Professor Charles Desforges