LITERACY PARENT WORKSHOP Year 1 and 2

YEAR 1 PHONICS  Phonics screening in June - all year 1 children.  It is a nationally reported assessment.  40 phonetically decodable words- some ‘real’, some made up to test accurate segmenting and blending without support.  With class teacher - try to make it a ‘fun’ activity so children are not aware they are being assessed.  Children can use their robot arms!  Children’s score will be shared with parents in end of year report.  If children don’t meet the threshold, they take the test again in Year 2.

YEAR 1 PHONICS Important vocab:  Phoneme- a sound in speech.  Grapheme- the letter or letter that represent a sound.  Digraph- a combination of two letters that represent one sound e.g. ‘ch’  Letter name- alphabet.  Vowel digraph- two vowel letters are used to represent one vowel phoneme e.g. ‘ai’  Split digraph- two letters, split, that make one sound e.g. i-e (‘magic e’)  Trigraph- a group of three letters representing one sound e.g. ‘air’  Alternative grapheme- different ways of representing a phoneme e.g. ai, ay, a-e.

PRONOUNCING SOUNDS CORRECTLY  It is very important that children pronounce the phonemes correctly to support their reading and writing.  They will struggle to blend and segment if they are mispronouncing the phonemes.

APPLYING PHONICS AT HOME… Activities to help your child:  Looking for sounds in reading book, particularly digraphs, trigraphs and split diagraphs.  Highlighting phonemes in words. Children can also draw ‘sound buttons’ under the graphemes, children are familiar with this from phonics sessions at school.  Spotting graphemes in the environment- in Logos, on signs and packaging.  When they are writing, sounding out words aloud.

YEAR 2 PHONICS TERMS  Suffix – letters you can add to the end of a word to change it’s tense or meaning, e.g. – ed –ing –ness –ful  Prefix – letters you can add to the start of a word to change it’s tense or meaning, e.g. re- un- pre-  Alternative grapheme – a grapheme which sounds the same as another, e.g. air, are, ear  Past tense verbs, e.g. swam, hopped, cried, lived  Present tense, e.g. running, hoping, walking  Plurals, e.g. dresses, pots, leaves

YEAR 2 GRAMMAR

READING - LEVEL 1

READING – LEVEL 2

READING - LEVEL 3

BOOK TALK AT KEY STAGE 1  Reading is not just about decoding  Children should be using a range of strategies when reading, including using the pictures  Book Talk leaflet will be stuck in children’s reading records  Use the Book Talk leaflet at home when hearing children read to develop their comprehension and understanding of texts