children have daily phonics lessons delivered through our read write inc (rwi) sessions. sounds...
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Children have daily phonics lessons delivered
through our Read Write Inc (RWI) sessions.
Children are taught to read by breaking down
words into separate soundssounds or ‘phonemes’.
They are then taught how to blendblend these sounds
together to read the whole word;
There are around 40 different sounds.
Every Year 1 child in the country will be taking a
statutory phonics screening check in the same week.
Week beginning 15th June 2015
All schools must comply with the check in order for the
Government to gain an overall understanding of how successful
phonics is in teaching a child to read.
The focus of the check is to provide evidence of
children’s decoding and blending skills, not to test their
vocabulary or comprehension skills.
Each check will take around 10 minutes to
complete; alongside their class teacher.
They will be asked to ‘sound out’ a word and
blend the sounds together. e.g. d-o-g – dog
The check will consist of 40 words and non-
words;
Children will be told if the word is a real or
‘alien’ word, with a corresponding alien image.
chain
dawn
nurse
control
chone
gare
vaym
espox
Teachers will conduct all of the
screening checks with the children;
The children will complete the check one to one
in a quiet area of the school;
We are not permitted to indicate to the children
at the time whether they have correctly
sounded out and / or blended the word.
Each child will be scored against a national
standard (threshold yet to be determined by DfE).
We will inform you of whether they fall below or
within this standard.
If your child’s score falls below the national
standard they will re-take the phonics
screening check in year 2.
The screening check will take place
throughout the week beginning
Monday 15Monday 15thth June June.
It has been designed so that children of
all abilities will be able to take part.
rout•First, children find their “sound friend”, which in this case is ‘ou’. •Then, children say the phonemes that make up that word. These may be individual letters or digraphs (2 letters one sound)/trigraphs (3 letters one sound).•‘r’ ‘ou’ ‘t’.• Finally, they blend these altogether to read the nonsense word ‘rout’.
rout
phonephone• First, children look for sound friends,in this
case there are 2 ‘ph’ ‘o-e’. • Then, children say the phonemes that make up
that word. These may be individual letters or digraphs (2 letters one sound)/trigraphs (3 letters one sound).
• ‘ph’ ‘o-e’ ‘n’.• Finally, they blend these altogether to read the
real word ‘phone’.
shep•Many children would auto-correct and read this nonsense word as the real word ‘sheep’. •This word in particular highlights the importance of children using the given technique.
shep
dentist• There are some words which may not
include any sound friends such as the example shown.
• When supporting your child in their reading, encourage them
to use the technique we have shown you to read new and
unfamiliar words.
• We will send home some practise words for you to try with
your child. Ensure you practise these on a daily basis,
sounding out the real and nonsense words on the back. Work
on them little and often! (if you are unsure of pronunciation of
some sounds, please look here
http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/resources/sound-pronunciation-
guide/
or ask your child’s teacher).