Transcript PHONICS SCREENING CHECK 2014

FAMILY PHONICS
WORKSHOP
THURSDAY 26TH JANUARY
WHY DO WE TEACH PHONICS?
 The ability to read and write well is a vital skill for all
children, paving the way for an enjoyable and
successful school experience.
 Phonics helps children to develop good reading and
spelling skills
e.g. cat can be sounded out for reading and spelling
 We use a synthetic scheme called ‘Letters and
Sounds’ as our teaching resource.
Terminology
•Phonemes: the smallest units of sound that are found within a word
•Grapheme: a letter or a number of letters that represent a sound (phoneme)
e.g sh ch
•Digraph: two letters that make one sound
•Trigraph: three letters that make one sound
•CVC: stands for consonant, vowel, consonant
•Segmenting: breaking up a word into its sounds
•Blending : putting the sounds together to read a word
•Tricky words: words that cannot easily be decoded
•Alien words: words that are not real, also known as pseudo
PHONICS CONSISTS OF:
 Identifying sounds in spoken words
 Recognising the common spellings of each sound
 Blending sounds into words for reading
 Segmenting words into sounds for spelling
HOW TO SAY THE SOUNDS
 Saying the sounds correctly with your child is
extremely important
 The way we say sound may well be different from when
you were at school
 We say the shortest form of the sounds
 This is a helpful video showing all 44 phonemes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s
Phase 2
Learning phonemes to read and write simple words
•Children will learn their first 19 phonemes:
Set 1: s a t p Set 2: i n m d
Set 3: g o c k Set 4: ck (as in duck) e u r
Set 5: h b l f ff (as in puff) ll (as in hill) ss (as in hiss)
•They will use these phonemes to read and spell simple “consonant-vowelconsonant” (CVC) words:
sat, tap, dig, puff, hill, hiss
All these words contain 3 phonemes.
Phase 3
•Children will enter phase 3 once they know the first 19 phonemes and can
blend and segment to read and spell CVC words.
•They will learn another 26 phonemes:
•j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu
•ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er
•They will use these phonemes (and the ones from Phase 2) to read and
spell words:
boat, boot, look, farm, fork, burn,
town, coin, dear, fair, sure
Still no more than 3 phonemes in a word –
fear
light
Phase 4
Introducing consonant clusters: reading and spelling words with four or
more phonemes
•Children move into phase 4 when they know all the phonemes from phases
2 and 3 and can use them to read and spell simple words (blending to read
and segmenting to spell).
•Phase 4 doesn’t introduce any new phonemes.
•It focuses on reading and spelling longer words with the phonemes they
already know.
•These words have consonant clusters at the beginning: spot, trip, clown
…or at the end: tent, mend, damp, burnt
…or at the beginning and end! trust, spend, twist
Phase 5
Teaching new graphemes for reading and writing
Phase 5
What is a split digraph?
tie
joe
time
joke
Let’s play a game
Phase 6
Phase 6 focuses on spellings and learning rules for using alternative sounds
to spell. Children look at syllables, root words and mnemonics.
because – big elephants can always understand small elephants.
people – people eat omelettes people like eggs
•
Children might about past tense, rules for adding ‘ing’ and irregular
verbs
•
Homophones – where, wear
•
Plurals – s, es, ies
•
Suffixes and prefixes
Suffixes - -ing, -er, -est, -ed, -y
•
If a word ends in an e, drop the e and add the suffix - e.g. hike – hiking
•
If a word ends in vowel consonant, double the consonant and add the
suffix e.g. drop – dropping
•
If a word ends in 2 consonants, just add suffix. e.g. jump – jumping
Suffixes - -ful, -ness, -less, -ment, -ly
These suffixes can usually be added straight onto the root word. e.g.
enjoyment, careful, fearless, quickly
However, the main exception is when the word ends in ‘y’. e.g. happiness
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PHONICS SCREENING CHECK
What is the phonics screening check?
 The phonics screening check will be taken individually by all
children in Year 1 in England in June .
 It is designed to give you information on how your child is
progressing in phonics.
 It will help to identify whether your child needs additional
support at this stage so that they do not fall behind in this
vital early reading skill.
WHAT IS IN THE PHONICS SCREENING CHECK?
 There will be two sections in this 40word check and it will assess their
phonics skills and knowledge
 Your child will read up to four words
per page to their teacher. There will
be 20 real words and 20 ‘alien words’
 We will make it as low-key as possible
– the children will not be informed it’s
a “test” – it only takes 5 minutes.
Here is a video of the check and what
children can expect to experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPJ_ZEB
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If a child does not pass the Phonics
Screening, they will be given extra Phonics
support in school and re-checked in Year 2.
WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MY CHILD?
You can find help at these websites
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk (click on ‘For Home’ them click on right arrow of
Highlights to find ‘Phonics Made Easy’ the ‘Say the sounds’ page is useful)
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk go to Free Phonicsplay Parents page and access
games and information to help you and your child.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/
http://www.starfall.com
http://www.letters-and-sounds.com
Phonics Apps
Fonics
Hairy letters
Phonics with letter
lilies
Tic tac toe phonics
Phonics street
REMEMBER: Phonics is not the only thing
needed to become a fluent reader.
Please continue to read with your child each night
and encourage them to:
•Sound out
•Re-read to check it makes sense.
•Use pictures for clues.
•Ask questions about the book.
•And most importantly ENJOY READING!
Family Phonics Sessions
We will be holding three Family Phonics
Sessions in school next week to give you the
opportunity to experience a phonics lesson
with your child. Please sign up to the one
session you would like to attend to secure
your place (one adult per child).
Please feel free to have a look at the
resources and apps we have available
in class.
Remember our door is always open!