1. KS1 English Meeting
15th November 2017

2. Overview of this evening…
Phonics – different phases of Letters and Sounds
Reading
Bug Club
Writing
Resources

3. Phonics Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics and the National Curriculum
Daily 20 minute phonics sessions
Setting across year groups

4. Phonics terminology
Blending - Recognising the letter sounds in a written word and merging or synthesising them
Segmenting - Identifying the individual sounds in a word and writing them down
CVC words – a word made up of a consonant, vowel and then a consonant, e.g. cat
CVCC/CCVC words – words containing adjacent consonants, e.g. lamp or frog
Tricky words – a word which can not be blended and only learnt by sight

5. Phonics terminology Phoneme – the smallest unit of sound in a word
Grapheme - A way of writing down a phoneme. Graphemes can be made up from 1 letter e.g. p, 2 letters e.g. sh, 3 letters e.g. igh or 4 letters e.g ough.
Digraph - A grapheme containing two letters that makes just one sound, e.g. oa
Trigraph - A grapheme containing three letters that makes just one sound, e.g. igh
Split digraph - A digraph in which the two letters are not adjacent, e.g. a-e in ‘cake’

6. Letters and Sounds – Phase 2
Letters and their sounds (phonemes)
Jolly Phonics actions/songs
Blending
Segmenting
Tricky words – the, to, no, go, I
Reading captions

7. Letters and Sounds – Phase 3
20 new graphemes (two letters), e.g ‘oa’
Letter names
Blending CVC words
Segmenting CVC words
Tricky words – reading and spelling
Two syllable words
Sentences

8.
Correct pronunciation of Phase 2 and 3 phonemes and graphemes

9. Letters and Sounds – Phase 4
Consolidate knowledge of graphemes
Read words with adjacent consonants (CVCC/CCVC)
Spell words with adjacent consonants
Tricky words – reading and spelling
Reading/writing sentences

10. Letters and Sounds – Phase 5
New graphemes and alternative pronunciations of graphemes (e.g. ai, ay, a-e)
Spell words using appropriate graphemes
Tricky words – reading and spelling
Read and spell two and three syllable words (e.g fantastic)
Read and write sentences

11. Letters and Sounds – Phase 6 Year 2 curriculum
Past and present tenses
Suffixes – ed, ing, ful, less
Prefixes – un, dis
Compound words (e.g. football)
Singular and plural

12. Reading - curriculum Curriculum split up into:
Word reading – decoding the text, applying phonics, building up fluency and confidence
Comprehension – discussing a wide range of genres, discussing word meanings, making inferences, making predictions, retelling and checking it makes sense.
Comprehension just as important as word reading!
Variety of genres – fiction, non-fiction and poetry
End of year expectations
Reading colours

13. Guided Reading Daily guided reading session usually 9:00-9:30
1 read with teacher/TA, 2nd read or follow up
Children may read up onto next colour
Rotation of independent activities
Year 1 from October half term
Year 2 from September

14. Bug Club New online reading resource
Children will access e-books of the colour they are reading on at school
Books with focuses – tricky words/sounds
Comprehension questions
Teachers monitor access and responses
Logins will be sent home
Information letter

15. Writing – curriculum Curriculum split into 4 areas:
Spelling - spelling words using phonics, spelling tricky words, using prefixes and suffixes, spelling contracted words (I’ll, I’m)
Handwriting - forming letters correctly, beginning to join
Composition – writing for different purposes, saying out loud what they are going to write, re-reading their writing to check it makes sense
Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation – capital letters, finger spaces, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, adjectives, past/present tense, conjunctions
Curriculum - more focused on spelling, grammar and punctuation
End of year expectations

16. Handwriting Scheme of work – PenPals Letters in 4 ‘families’:
Curly caterpillars – c, a, d, o, s, g, q, e, f
Zigzag monsters – z, v, w, x
Long legged giraffes – l, I, t, u, j, y
One armed robots – r, b, n, h, m, k, p
Also covers number formation and capital letters for all families
Year 1 start to join clusters of letters together
Year 2 build on this and join most letters

17. Resources Resources on tables for you to have a look at
Used in class to support phonics, reading and writing.

18. Any questions? Thank you for coming!