1. Welcome to our Phonics and SPaG workshop
Thursday 12th October 2017

2. Aims for the workshop
By the end of the session we would like to achieve the following aims:
To show progression in phonics, spelling, punctuation and grammar across the EYFS and Key Stage 1
To share information about key assessment points for each Key Stage

3. Phonics in Reception
Most children will have had pre-school experiences of hearing, seeing and exploring sounds through songs, rhymes, alliteration and stories. This is known as Phase 1 of the phonics programme ‘Letters and Sounds’ that we use in school.
From October half term, children are taught phonics in 20 minute sessions, four times per week. Children are split across three teaching groups to meet their individual needs.

4. Phonics in Reception
Children will continue to learn letters and sounds using memory games, songs and practical challenges as they progress through Reception.
Phase 2
Introduce grapheme (letter shape) /phoneme (letter sound) correspondence
* Set 1 sounds – s a t p * Set 2 sounds - i n m d
* Set 3 sounds – g o c k * Set 4 sounds – ck e u r
* Set 5 sounds – h b l f ff ll ss

5. Phonics in Reception
Reception chidlren having fun writing new letters and sounds at the Phonic challenge area.
Matching magnetic letters to the pictures and creating words!
Finding letter sounds to make jigsaw words.

6. Segmenting and Blending
Phonics in Reception
Segmenting and Blending
Children need to be able to hear the separate sounds in a word and then blend them together to say the whole word.
We use robot arms and sound buttons to help the children to segment a word into phonemes.
bed - b e d segmenting
c a t - cat blending
Within Phase 2, children also begin to learn ‘tricky words’ that they are unable to segment and blend – the, I, to, no, go.

7. Phonics in Reception Phase 3
Children will enter Phase 3 when they know the first 19 phonemes. They will segment and blend to read and spell cvc words – map, sip, ten.
They will learn another 26 phonemes and further ‘tricky words’:
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
A digraph is a phoneme that comprises of two letters to make one sound – ch, sh, th, ai etc.
A trigraph is a phoneme that comprises of three letters to make one sound – igh, ear, air etc.

8. Phonics in Reception Phase 4
Children move on to Phase 4 when they know all of the phonemes from Phases 2 and 3 and can use them to read and spell simple words.
Phase 4 doesn’t introduce any new phonemes. It focuses on reading and spelling longer words with the phonemes they already know. Many more ‘tricky words’ are also introduced.
These words have consonant clusters in different places:
Beginning - spot, trip, clap, green, clown
End - tent, mend, damp, burnt
Both - trust, spend, twist

9. Phonics in Reception
Children in Reception and Year 1 will have their knowledge and application of phonics continually reviewed using our individual Letters and Sounds Records. This then allows us to ensure children are always learning within a group matched most closely to their needs.
Copies of this booklet are also available to download from our school website along with a copy of the information for this afternoon.

10. Phonics in Year 1
Phase 5
In Year 1, children will continue to be grouped for their phonic sessions using information from their Early Years teachers to ensure a smooth transition.
Children are taught the following 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
They will also learn alternative pronunciations of graphemes for example:
Fin/find, hot/cold, cat/cent, got/giant, cow/blow, tie/field, eat/bread, hammer/her, hat/what, yes/by/very, chin/school/chef,
Even up to 4 sounds for one grapheme! out/shoulder/could/you

11. Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
In June 2018, children in Year 1, and some Year 2 children, will take part in the Phonics Screening Check.
This is not a reading test; the check is to test their application of the phonic skills they have learnt. The check will be delivered by a teacher on a 1:1 basis, in a quiet room away from distractions.
The check will contain 40 words in total, divided into two sections of 20 words. Each page will contain either four pseudo-words (alien words) or four real words; real words and pseudo-words will not be mixed up on a page.

12. Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
Key points for the Screening Check:
40 words for the children to read (children will have a practise sheet first)
Pass mark threshold varies year on year (previously between 31-34)
Screening check marks shared with parents/carers with their end of year report
If your child does not meet the expected standard they will take the check again in Year 2

13. Phonics in Year 2
Children are taught the following throughout the year:
To read all of the 100 HF words
To spell most of the 100 HF words accurately
To use the phonemes and graphemes they have learnt to blend to read decodable words and segment to spell with increasing accuracy
To choose the correct grapheme when spelling in written work (e.g. train not trayn)
To understand how adding suffixes and prefixes changes words
To understand and apply the rules for suffixes: plurals, past tense, ing, ful, er, est, ment, ness, y, ly, en
To clap out syllables to spell unfamiliar words

14. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar objectives in Year 2
In Year 2, children are taught Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar in their mixed ability classes.
Spelling – We follow the No Nonsense Spelling programme
To segment spoken words into phonemes and record these as graphemes.
To spell words with alternative spellings, including a few common homophones.
To spell longer words using suffixes such as ‘ment’, ‘ness’, ‘ful’, ‘less’, ‘ly’.
To use knowledge of alternative phonemes to narrow down possibilities for accurate spelling.
To identify phonemes in unfamiliar words and use syllables to divide words.
Punctuation
To use capital letters for names of people, places, days of the week and the personal pronoun ‘I’.
To use question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
To use commas to separate items in a list.
To use apostrophes to show where letters are missing and to mark singular possession in nouns.

15. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar objectives in Year 2
Text structure
To consistently use the present tense and past tense correctly.
To use the progressive forms of verbs in the present and past tense.
E.g. Past tense sentence - Jack read his book. The progressive past tense sentence would be - Jack was reading his book.
Sentence structure
To use expanded noun phrases.
To say how the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function.
To use subordination and coordination.
Subordination is when the conjunctions when, if, that or because are used in a sentence – the second part of the sentence explains the first part.
E.g. I put my coat on because it was cold.
Coordination is when the conjunctions or, and or but are used in a sentence – the two parts of the sentence are linked as an equal pair. E.g. I like apples but my sister likes pears.

16. Year 2 Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar test
In the Summer term, children will complete a grammar, punctuation and spelling test. This will take place in the classroom where the children feel comfortable and relaxed.
The test will consist of two papers:
Paper 1 – Spelling
Children will have approximately 15 minutes to complete the test (not strictly timed), writing the 20 missing words in the answer booklet.
Paper 2 – Questions
Children will have approximately 20 minutes to complete the questions in the test paper (not strictly timed).
Tick the word that completes the sentence.
We were on our projects.
Tick one.
worked
works
working
work
Write one word on the line below to complete the sentence in the past tense.
I to Scotland during the school holidays.

17. Thank you for taking the time to join us this afternoon.