Phonics Parents Workshop Key Stage 1

Key Vocabulary 1. Phoneme - A phoneme (what you hear) is the smallest unit of sound in a word 2. Grapheme - A grapheme is a letter or group of letters representing a sound. 3. Digraph - A two-letter grapheme (e.g. ie, ay) 4. Trigraph – A three-letter grapheme (e.g. igh) 5. Split Digraph - When a digraph is split by a consonant it becomes a split digraph (e.g. time, hope) 6. Blending – Forming a word by blending the sounds together (Reading). 7. Segmenting – Saying the sounds that you hear after hearing a whole word (Spelling).

A little background…

What should children know by the time they enter Year 1? Children entering Phase Five will already be able to read and spell words with adjacent consonants, such as trap, string and flask. They will also be able to read and spell some polysyllabic words. They will know a grapheme for each of the 42 phonemes Children should be using the ‘pure’ sounds (no ‘uh’ on the end!)

What is introduced in Year 1? Children continue taught to read by breaking down words into separate sounds or ‘phonemes’. They are then taught how to blend these sounds together to read the whole word. In Phase Five, children will learn more graphemes and phonemes. For example, they already know ai as in rain, but now they will be introduced to ay as in day and a-e as in make. Alternative pronunciations for graphemes will also be introduced, e.g. ea in tea, head and break. With practice, speed at recognising and blending graphemes will improve. Word and spelling knowledge will be worked on extensively.

How do we teach phonics

Phase 5 Activities Change my spellings

shelf sh e l f dress d r ss think th i n k flick ck string s t ng Segmenting Activity word shelf sh e l f dress d r ss think th i n k flick ck string s t ng sprint p sleigh eigh churches ch ur

Year 1 Phonics Screening! Can you put the sound buttons on the words to blend them together? Every Year 1 child in the country will be taking the phonics screening check in the same week in June. The aim of the check is to ensure that all children are able to read by the end of year two. This ‘midpoint check’ will ensure that we have a clear understanding of what the children need to learn in year 2.

Year 2 Here is an example of an end of Key Stage 1 spelling test Year 2 Here is an example of an end of Key Stage 1 spelling test. Can you identify what needs to be taught?

Year 2 In Year 2 we build on what children have learnt in phonics and start to explore different spelling patterns and techniques. https://www.spellingplay.co.uk/y2_member/strategy_shop.html

Year 2

-ing Adding Suffixes -ment -ed -er -est -y -ness -ful -less

Adding Suffixes – an example Do nothing: help - helping Double the last letter: grab - grabbing Drop the ‘e’: phone – phoning https://www.spellingplay.co.uk/y2_member/violets_vowel_suffixes.html

Adding Suffixes – other rules Adding s or –es (E.g. plays, matches) Change the y to i (e.g. cry – cries) https://www.spellingplay.co.uk/y2_member/violets_vowel_suffixes.html

Types of games we might play to teach ‘suffixes’ Sorting activities – can you sort the words into the correct rule? Find your captain! Give each ‘captain’ a rule. Give each child a sticker with a rule on. Can you ‘find your captain’? Real and nonsense words. Give children a selection of root words and suffixes. Pick a word and pick a suffix. Does your word make a real word or nonsense word? Popcorn! Pick a word out of the popcorn pot. Can you add the suffix to your word? Musical chairs. When the music stops sit on a chair (with words on the back). Pick a child to read their word to the rest of the group. Can the team write it? Hunt for words with suffixes in a text/book. Can you add those into the correct rule? Application activities – can you put the correct word into a sentence?

Apostrophes for contraction https://www.spellingplay.co.uk/y2_member/apostrophes_with_appetite.html

Spelling patterns – an example https://www.spellingplay.co.uk/y2_member/strategy_shop.html

What else do we cover? le, al, el, il Pebble, metal, camel, fossil… -tion Station, caption, fiction… kn and gn Know, gnome… or/ar after w Word, warm, warn, work… Soft and hard c Cat, cell Soft and hard g Bug, giraffe The /igh/ sound at the end of a word Sky, why, try, fly, Compound Words Ladybird, football Homophones no and know, witch and which

Some ‘tricky’ words need to be learnt by sight!