1. Phonics Workshop
18th April 2018

2. Thank you all for coming
Thank you all for coming. Our aim today is to help equip you, as a parent, to support your child in preparation for the Phonics Screening Test coming up in June. Please feel free to ask any questions.
The KS1 Team.

3. In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme
In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme. Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education and Skills which consists of six phases. Your children spends minutes per day in a phonics lesson.

4. Old Earth Website – KS1 Hub – What is Phonics? video.

5. What does a Phonics lesson look like?
Revisit/review
Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far.
Teach
Teach new phoneme air
Practice
Buried treasure
air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair, vair, sair, thair
Apply
Read or write captions:
The girl had a long hair.
He went to the fair.

6. Phase 2 Set 1: s, a, t, p Set 2: i, n, m, d Set 3: g, o, c, k
Set 4: ck, e, u, r
Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

7. Phase 3 Set 6: j, v, w, x Set 7: y, z, zz, qu
Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng
Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, er
Trigraphs: ear, air, ure, igh.
Some children are still working at this phase. If they do not pass this year they will have chance to re-sit in Year 2.

8. Phase 4
This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases.
Blending

9. Phase 5
Children will be taught new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes.
Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au
Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e
The majority of children are working at phase 5.

10. Phase 6 The focus is on learning spelling rules for suffixes.
-s -es -ing ed
-er -est -y en
-ful -ly -ment -ness

11. Segmenting
Breaking down words for spelling.
cat
c a t

12. Segmenting
Queen
qu ee n
We draw on sound buttons.

13. Building words from phonemes to read.
Blending
Building words from phonemes to read.
c a t
cat

14. Blending
Qu ee n queen

15. Blending
b i k e bike

16. Old Earth Website – KS1 Hub – What is Phonics?-
The Phonics screening test

17. Year 1 Phonics Test - Year 2 resit w.c. 11th June

18. Last year’s test words

19. Resources on the KS1 Hub

20. Work with your child revising each sound.
If they struggle with a particular grapheme, click on the Mr Thorne link on the KS1 and search for a video about that grapheme.

21.
All year one children will be sent a username and password to log onto this game at home. This is a much loved game and helps children revise the taught graphemes through reading games. Children who were invited to attend the phonics club will be introduced to this during their club.
Make sure you get your child’s password today!

22. www.teachyourmonstertoread.com Any questions?
On the tables you will see various resources that we use in school.
Next door you will find your children using the range of I.T. websites discussed tonight. Please go and have a look to see them in action.
This powerpoint and the information shown is all available on the hub.