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Horizon Academy Trust is an exempt charity regulated by the Secretary of State for Education.

company number 08411590

registered office is C/O Biggin Hill Primary School, Biggin Avenue, Bransholme, Hull, United Kingdom HU7 4RL.

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Biggin Hill Primary

Phonics

Our phonics curriculum is fully inclusive and meets the needs of all learners, starting from building strong foundations in our EYFS, supporting and challenging them on their journey to being secondary ready, and ultimately ensuring that they are equipped with the cultural capital, skills and knowledge they need to succeed in the future.

Meet our Phonics Coordinator

 

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Phonics at Biggin

Phonics is taught discretely from FS1 (Nursery) through to Year 2. Phonics sessions will continue in KS2 if necessary to ensure all children develop into fluent expressive readers who can comprehend. Children have four sessions each week (daily lessons in FS2). At Biggin we teach Read Write Inc, a systematic synthetic early reading programme developed by Ruth Miskin. It is a rapid learn to read programme so children can read to learn for the rest of their lives whilst developing a wide range of vocabulary and encouraging a love of reading. There are 3 sets of sounds the children work through at their own pace and phonics progresses onto learning spelling rules and patterns as well as developing reading fluency. 

Read Write Inc

A Read Write Inc speed sound lesson is taught at the appropriate level, which is followed by a RWI reading session. We make sure that pupils read books that are closely matched to their increasing knowledge of phonics and the common exception words. Progress is monitored using regular assessments to ensure children are constantly working at an appropriately challenging level.

Set 1

Set 1 sounds are taught in the following order together with rhymes to help children form the letters correctly and instantly recognise sounds ready for blending.

*The school’s cursive script has been added to these rhymes.

m

Lead up Maisie, mountain, mountain, hook

a

Lead round the apple, down the leaf

s

Lead round and slither down the snake, hook

d

Lead round his bottom, up his tall neck and down to his foot, hook

t

Lead up, down the tower, across the tower

i

Lead up, down the body, dot for the head

n

Lead up, down Nobby, over his net

p

Lead up, down the plait and over the pirates face, hook

g

Lead round her face, down her hair and give her a curl, hook

o

Lead all round the orange, hook

c

Lead round, curl around the caterpillar

k

Lead up, down the kangaroos body, curly tail and leg

u

Lead up, down and under, up to the top and draw the puddle

b

Lead up, down the laces to the heel, round the toe, hook

f

Lead round, down the stem, curl up, draw the leaf

e

Lead diagonal, lift off the top and scoop out the egg

l

Lead up, down the leg, hook

h

Lead up, down the head to the hooves and over his back, hook

r

Lead up, down his back and then curl over his arm

j

Lead up, down his body, curl and dot

v

Lead up, down a wing, up a wing, hook

y

Lead up, down a horn, up a horn and under his head, hook

w

Lead up, down, up, down, up

z

Lead up, zig-zag-zig

q

Lead round her head, up past her earrings and down her hair, hook

x

Lead up, curl round the arm and round the leg

 




th

Lead up, down the tower, across the tower, then lead up, down the horse’s head to the hooves and over his back, hook

ch

Lead round, curl around the caterpillar, then lead up, down the horse’s head to the hooves and over his back, hook

sh

Lead round and slither down the snake, then lead up, down the head to the hooves and over his back, hook

qu

Lead round her head, up past her earrings and down her hair, then lead up, down and under, up to the top and draw the puddle

ng

A thing on a string (rhyme)

nk

I think I stink (rhyme)

Set 2 & 3

The children are then taught set 2 sounds. When they are very confident with all of set 1 and 2 they are taught set 3 sounds. Rhymes are taught alongside the sounds.

ay

May I play?

ee

What can you see?

igh

Fly high

ow

Blow the snow

oo

Poo at the zoo

oo

Look at a book

ar

Start the car

or

Shut the door

air

That’s not fair

ir

Whirl and twirl

ou

Shout it out

oy

Toy for a boy

 

ea

Cup of tea

oi

Spoil the boy

a-e

Make a cake

i-e

Nice smile

o-e

Phone home

u-e

Huge brute

aw

Yawn at dawn

are

Share and care

ur

Nurse with a purse

er

A better letter

ow

Brown cow

ai

Snail in the rain

oa

Goat in a boat

ew

Chew the stew

ire

Fire fire!

ear

Hear with your ear

ure

Sure it’s pure?

tion

Pay attention

tious/cious

Scrumptious delicious

Year 1 Phonics Screening

The national phonics screening test was introduced in 2012 to all Year 1 pupils. It is a short, statutory assessment to confirm whether individual pupils have learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate standard. It aims to identify the children who need extra help so that they can be given support by school to improve their reading skills. The phonics test is usually taken in June.

What is Phonics?

Words are made up from small units of sound called phonemes, phonics teaches children to be able to listen carefully and identify the phonemes that make up each word. This helps children to learn to read words by segmenting phonemes (sounds) and blending the phonemes together to say the word.

Learning phonics will help your child to become a good reader and writer.

Phonic Terminology

  • Phoneme: The smallest units of sound that are found within a word e.g. c
  • Grapheme: The spelling of the sound e.g. th
  • Diagraph: Two letters that make one sound when read e.g. ee
  • Trigraph: Three letters that make one sound e.g igh
  • CVC Words: CVC stands for consonant, vowel, consonant e.g cat
  • Segmenting: Breaking up a word into sounds e.g s-ee-n
  • Blending: Putting the sounds together to read a word
  • Split Diagraph: Is a two letter sound broken up by a constant e.g i_e in the word like
  • Tricky Words: Words that cannot easily be decoded
  • Common Exception Words: Similar to tricky words, introduced in the new curriculum

Read Write Inc Terminology

  • Fred: Read Write Inc mascot who can only speak in sounds.
  • Fred Talk: Talking in sounds e.g c – a – t.
  • Fred Fingers: Counting sounds on fingers before writing down.
  • Speed Sounds: Learnt phonemes read quickly.
  • Green Words: These are words that are decodable linking to a taught sound.
  • Red Words: These are words that are unable to be sounded out and so are irregular