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Reading and Phonics

Iron Acton Primary School 2020

Aims of the session

• Introduce new reading scheme
• Discuss how the books can be utilised at home
• Discuss how we teach phonics in school
• Discuss how phonics can be supported at home

Reading Scheme

• Supplied by Big Cat Phonics
• In line with the current Ofsted and government requirements
• All books sent home are fully decodable and in line with the sounds they are

learning

• Any common exception words (non-decodable words) are highlighted in the inside

front cover, alongside the sounds that are included in the book

• There are prompts on the inside covers of each book to aid discussion of the story

structure and story.

Reading in School

• Children are listened to by teachers and support staff in small reading groups at

least once a week

• Each book is read 3 times
• Books are an integral part of the classroom – the class bookcase in always accessible

and children are read to every day

• Class books are often used for inspiration in writing and other foundation activities
• All children are assessed three times a year using the assessments from the Big Cat

Phonics scheme.

Importance of Reading at Home

• The school expectation is for each child to read 5 times a week at home
• Please write in the yellow reading records every time you read with your child
• In Year 1 and 2, a new book will be given on a Monday, with additional books on Wednesday and Friday if needed. These

three books can then be re-capped over the weekend

• Reception books will be changed as needed
• Each book is read three times
• First read: decoding words
• Second read: reading with meaning
• Third read: comprehension – discussing the text or story
• A variety of books outside of the school reading scheme is also encouraged to promote a love of reading – it shouldn’t be a

chore!

Phonics

• Phonics is taught daily
• We use a variety of methods, games and activities to help children learn the

sounds, e.g. interactive games, songs, flashcards etc.

• Reception have a red sound book with their sounds to practice at home
• Year 1 and 2 have spelling books with their sounds / words to practice at

home.

s snake a ant t tennis p pink i ink n net m mum d dad g gurgle

• n / off

c click k click e egg u umbrella r rag h hop b bat f fish l lollipop j jelly v van w wind x fox y yoghurt z zip qu quack ng strong ch chip sh shop th thumb ai rain

• a

goat igh light ee sheep

• r

thorn ar farm

• book
• moon
• w

cow

• i

coin ur turn air chair ck rocket er flower ear hear ure manure Double letters make the longer sound e.g. ‘zz’, ‘ll’, ‘ff’, ‘ss’

fish f i sh

Phonics Terminology

• Phoneme – the smallest unit of sound in a word, often referred to as a sound
• Grapheme – a letter or sequence of letters that represents a phoneme
• Blend – squashing the sounds together to make larger units such as syllables or words, e.g. c-a-t = cat
• Sound – saying the phoneme that each grapheme represents in order to blend them
• Segment – breaking words, or parts of words, into the components of sounds (phonemes), e.g. cat = c-a-t
• Digraph – a phoneme that it represented by two letters, e.g. ee
• Trigraph – a phoneme that is represented by three letters, e.g. igh
• Split digraph – a digraph that is separated within a word, e.g. e-e = theme