Year 1 phonics and reading overview
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Keywords Exception words- words which are not phonetically spelt Bug club refer to key/exception words as ‘tricky words’ Learn by sight not sound As children become more confident readers they will start to spot alternative sounds in their keywords ES
Alien Words Pseudo words – made up words which have to be sounded and blended to be read Have a go…. Year 1 – Phonics Screen IM
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igh Say itWrite it ES
/igh/ Different ways to make the /igh/ sound IM ie, i_e Other common ways to Write the ‘igh’ sound ie Different sounds the letters ‘ie’ can make iei_e
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Blending words with the new sound Reading words from flash cards Modelled sentence, reading sentence. igh night.. ES
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Apply Children then write a sentence at the end of their phonics session that include: the ‘sound of the day’ Previously learnt sound keywords. practise author skills - igh – high, sigh night, igh - I can go as high as the moon at night. /igh/ - I tried to fly high in the sky but my tie hit me in the eye.. ? ! C ES
Links to home learning – Supporting children’s reading at home Reading for pleasure Sound spotting Picture decoding Keywords Punctuation Expression Re-read for fluency. Questions – factual and inferential. Predicting and summarising. Word choice Time / pages IM
predict recap / summarise Questions: What’s the super hero’s name? Where is the story’s setting? Which characters are in the book? Is this a non-fiction book? How do you know? Questions: How do you think Jazz is feeling? Why are the police in the story? How would you save the day? Why might people rob a bank?