Teaching and Learning Phonics in Year 1 at Park Street CofE Primary School Aims • To share how phonics is taught. • To develop parents’ confidence in helping their children with phonics and reading • To teach the basics of phonics and some useful phonics terms • To outline the different stages in phonic development • To show examples of activities and resources we use to teach phonics • To understand the Year 1 phonics check – To understand how you can help at home What is phonics? Phonics is all about using … skills for reading and spelling + knowledge of the alphabet Learning phonics will help your child to become a good reader and writer. Daily Phonics Phonics is taught daily to all children in Reception and Year 1. Each session lasts around 20 minutes and follows a set structure of: revisit, review, teach, practise and apply. Our lessons are based on the Storytime Phonics scheme, which uses real books to teach phonics in a fun, memorable and multi sensory way Phonics skills are embedded within all subjects, children are encouraged to use their phonics knowledge when reading and writing. Resources are available in both classrooms, for all children to access independently. Daily Phonics •There are 6 phonics phases which the children work through within specific year groups Reception – Phase 1-4 Year 1 – Revision of Phase 4 Phase 5 The children learn actions to go with each sound – the caption action. This helps them to remember the sounds and apply them when reading and writing. Phonic terms your child will learn at school • Phonemes: The smallest units of sound that are found within a word • Grapheme: The spelling of the sound e.g. sh (i.e. how the sound is written) • Digraph: Two letters that make one sound when read • Trigraphs: Three letters that make one sound • CVC: Stands for consonant, vowel, consonant • Segmenting: breaking up a word into its sounds to write • Blending: Putting the sounds together to read a word • Tricky words: Words that cannot easily be decoded Storytime Phonics - Rec Storytime Phonics - Rec Storytime Phonics- Y1 Phase 5 • Teach new graphemes for reading •ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e Learn alternative pronunciations of graphemes (the same grapheme can represent more than one phoneme): Fin/find, hot/cold, cat/cent, got/giant, but/put, cow/blow, tie/field, eat/bread, farmer/her, hat/what, yes/by/very, chin/school/chef, out/shoulder/could/you. •. Saying the sounds correctly • Sounds should be pronounced clearly and precisely. Listen together now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s Extra listening for at home (long video!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ksblMiliA8 Blending /b/ /ir/ /d/ = bird /b/ /oa/ /t/ = boat /m/ /u/ /g/ = mug /sh/ /o/ /p/ = shop Segmenting bird = /b/ /ir/ /d/ tin= /t/ /i/ /n/ mug= /m/ /u/ /g/ shop = /sh/ /o/ /p/ Phonics words Phoneme frame and sound buttons and zips b . __ f . ir i d . sh . _ Tricky Words There are many words that cannot be blended or segmented because they are irregular. We use the ‘Tricky Troll’ to introduce these. the was said you some Teaching the split digraph tie time toe tone cue cube pie pine Is there anything I can do at home? y e s At home - Useful websites • Games and resources linked to each phase of Letters and Sounds: • http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/ • http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ • http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/alphablocks/ • http://www.mrthornedoesphonics.com/ • http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/kentict/content/games/liter acy_menu.html • http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html • http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=40 – Teach your monster to read - app The Year 1 phonics check Why are the children being screened? Who carries out the check? When does the check take place? Week of 8th June 2020 What? The check is very similar to tasks the children already complete during phonics lessons and involves reading single words. Children will be asked to ‘sound out’ each word and blend the sounds together e.g. slurp – s-l-ur-p The focus of the check is to see which sounds the children know and therefore the children will be asked to read made up ‘nonsense’ words. e.g. sploat - spl-oa-t Ways to help http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTr easure2.html Flash cards/Phonics book Reading at home Teach your monster to read 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 and use punctuation. • Use pictures for clues. • Ask questions about the book. And most importantly ENJOY READING!
