Transcript Year 1 Phonics Screening Check parent workshop 2016

Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
Parent Workshop
Miss Karpel and Mrs Tribble 2016
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.
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.
Definitions
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a
word.
A grapheme Letter(s) representing a
phoneme.
t
ai
igh
A phoneme can be represented/spelled in more
than one way cat, kennel, chick
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
What’s the screening check all about?
• 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?
Little and often is best!
• Words&Pictures-BBC Schools 411 years
• Phonics Play-Begin at Phase 3 and
work your way up
• Parents-Oxford Phonics Check
Support