Y1/Y2

Supporting Your

Child With

Reading

Paula Holmes

Y1 Lead

Phonics and Reading Lead

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Our Phonics

Programme

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At Brookfield Primary School we are excited to be introducing Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised to deliver daily phonics lessons from Nursery to Year 1. This year it will also be key in Y2.

• Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP) developed for schools by schools.

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• Based on the original Letters and Sounds, but extensively revised to provide a complete teaching programme meeting all the expectations of the National Curriculum, the Ofsted Deep Dive into reading and preparing your children to go beyond the expectations of the Phonics Screening Check.

Jargon

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GPC – This stands for grapheme phoneme

correspondence (the sound-letter relationship)

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Phoneme – smallest unit of sound

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Grapheme – written sound (letter/or group of

Letters used to represent a particular phoneme

when writing)

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Digraph – two letters making one phoneme - ay

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Trigraph – three letters making one phoneme – igh

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Blending – combining individual phonemes into one word, working from left to right

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Segmenting – identify each individual phoneme in a word, working left to right

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Our Phonics

Programme

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What phonics looks like in Y1/Y2

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• Daily 20-minute phonics lesson
• 3 Reading Practice sessions per week to apply phonics knowledge to reading.
• Daily individual or group keep up sessions for anyone who is falling behind.
• Fully decodable reading books to read at home, these are in place of our previous colour book band system.

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Our Phonics

Programme

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A typical phonics lesson follows a three part pattern:

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1. Revisit and Review
1. Review previously taught GPCs
2. Quick reading of words containing taught GPCs
3. Review tricky words
4. Oral blending of words containing taught GPCs

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• Teach and Practise
• Teach a new GPC
• Practise oral blending with words containing new GPC.
• Practise reading words containing new GPC (Teach a new tricky word

Our Phonics

Programme

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3. Practise and Apply

• Read/write a sentence containing words with the new GPC
• Practise spelling words with the new GPC

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Assessment

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Ongoing Assessment

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Daily (formative) assessment

• Teachers and support staff continuously assess children in all phonics lessons and identify those who may need additional support.
• Children in need of additional support receive either a group or 1:1 catch up session later that day
• To reinforce a particular GPC or tricky word, staff may pop a sticker onto a child’s jumper. All staff throughout the school know the symbolism of this and will stop them to practise. This also gives parents a cue for what to practise at home.

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Assessment

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Ongoing Assessment

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Weekly assessment

• Every Friday there is a review lesson where all new learning is consolidated. Teachers and support staff use this sessions to inform their keep up sessions.

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Assessment

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Ongoing Assessment

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Half termly assessment

• At the end of each half term there is an assessment week. During this week teachers carry out an assessment of all newly learnt GPCs and tricky words. This is carried out individually.

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Teaching of

Reading

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Reading Practice Groups

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Three times weekly reading practice

• Each week children will be taught explicit reading skills in a small group with a trained member of staff.

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• Each session will have a particular focus
• Session 1 – decoding - looking for digraphs/tricky words
• Session 2 – prosody - reading with meaning, emphasis and intonation
• Session 3 – comprehension- understanding the text

Teaching of Reading

Reading Practice Groups

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Three times weekly reading practice

• Teachers will use their assessments to group children based on the GPCs they are confident with.
• Each group reads a book which only contains the GPCs that they have been taught and can use confidently to blend and decode.
• The same book is used in all 3 reading sessions during the week.
• Staff will sign reading diaries after each guided reading session.

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Teaching of Reading

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1-1 Reading

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• A small number of children may read with an adult at school on a 1-1 basis. They will read the book from their group practice session.
• All children will read on a 1-1 basis with an adult during the final week of each half term. There will not be group practice sessions during this week.
• Staff will record in reading record books when reading 1-1 with children.

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Reading at

home

Reading at home

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Fully decodable books

• On a Friday children will be assigned their reading practice book to read. This is the book that they will have read 3 times and they should then be able to read at 95% fluency at home.
• This book will be assigned to their Harper Collins account.
• Where appropriate books from our previous scheme may also be sent home or assigned on Bug Club when it matches the child’s phonics.

Decodable

Books

Reading at home

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Fully decodable books

• When appropriate children will also bring home an additional decodable book.
• These will be carefully matched to their current phonic knowledge.

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Common exception words

• We would recommend that one day a week, children practise reading their Y1 common exception words.

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Top Tips

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Our top tips for reading success

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Although your child will be taught to read at school, you can have a huge impact on their reading journey by continuing their practice at home.

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• Listen to them read their book and remember to give them lots of praise.
• Celebrate their success.
• If they can’t read a word, read it to them
• After they have finished talk about the book together.

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Top Tips for

decodable books

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Our top tips for reading success

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Getting the most out of decodable books

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• If your child is reading it with little help, please don’t worry that it’s too easy. Your child needs to develop fluency and confidence in reading.
• Use the Reading at Home box inside the front cover for tips to get the most out of each book.

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Sharing

Books

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Sharing book

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Sharing books are to be read together

• Each week children will have the opportunity to choose a book from our library.
• Your child will not be able to read this on their own and it is for you both to read and enjoy together.
• Reading for pleasure is crucial in developing a life-long love of reading.

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Top Tips for

sharing books

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Our top tips for reading success

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Getting the most out of the sharing books

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• Read it to or with them
• Talk about the pictures
• Enjoy the story
• Predict what might happen next
• Use different voices for the characters
• Explore the facts in a non-fiction book
• Reading the same book multiple times is fine! Children love to re read ☺
• The main thing is to have fun

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ANY

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