Year 1 Phonic Year 1 Phonic Screening CheckScreening Check

Year 1 Phonic Year 1 Phonic Screening CheckScreening Check

Thursday 8Thursday 8thth June 2015 June 2015at 3.00pmat 3.00pm

What is phonics?• Simply the relationship between

letters and sounds in a language.• Words are made up of small units

of sounds called phonemes. • Phonics teaches children to

identify the phonemes that make up each word.

What is phonics? (cont)

Phonemes ( a sound in a word)e.g. c a t (3 phonemes)

Graphemes (letters or sequences of letters that represent a phoneme, canbe 1,2,3,4 letters)

e.g. f/i/sh NOT f/i/s/h kn/igh/t NOT k/n/i/g/h/tsh/i/p NOT s/h/i/p

What is phonics? (cont)

BlendingThis is when children say the sounds that make aword and they are able to merge the soundstogether until they hear what the word is. Vital for learning to read!SegmentingThe opposite to blending, children say a word and break it up into the phonemes that make it up. Vital for learning to spell!

Have a go…• How many phonemes in:

meatcluebike

puzzlesunflower

What are the Year 1 Phonic Screening

Checks?• A short, nationally directed, 1:1

test for all Year 1 aged pupils conducted by their class teacher.

• This test assesses whether each child has learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate level.

Why does my child have to undertake this

check?• It is a statutory requirement for all

schools.• To make sure that all pupils have

grasped fundamental phonics skills and to see that nobody slips through the net.

When will my child complete the check?

• All checks will take place during the week beginning the 15th June 2015.

Who administers the check to my child?

• Each child will undertake the check with their class teacher in a quiet room away from the rest of the class.

• The check takes between four to nine minutes long.

How are the checks administered?

• Low-key, no fuss, not made into a big thing.• The check comprises of a list of 40 words

and non-words (these are referred to as pseudo words).

• Half the words cover phonics skills which tend to be covered in Reception, and half the words are based on Year 1 phonics skills.

• Your child needs to read the words to their teacher correctly.

Examples of wordsWords Non-words

Section 1 (Reception

)

cat (cvc)wish (cvcc)

vap (cvc)geck (cvcc)

Section 2(Year 1)

slide (ccvcc)trains (ccvvc)

voo (cvv)spron (cccvc)

Non – words are included because they will be new to all pupils, so there won’t be a bias to those with a good vocabulary knowledge or visual memory of words.

What happens if my child does not reach

the standard?• You will be informed, via the school

report, if your child has not achieved the expected level.

• Extra support will be provided for children who fail to achieve the national standard.

• These children will then be able to re-take the assessment in Year 2.

Any questions?