Phonics in Year 2

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What is Phonics?

Phonics teaches children to read quickly and skillfully.

Children are taught how to read by segmenting and

blending letter sounds (phonemes)

Children can then use this knowledge to ‘de-code’

new words that they hear or see.

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Why teach phonics?

Phonics teaching provides a reading foundation for every child that is based on the letters and sounds of the alphabet. Children are taught the 26 letters with their 44 sounds and 70 common spellings, so that they are equipped to read new words.

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Why do we use Sounds~Write?

• Sounds-Write is a quality first phonics programme acknowledged by the Department for Education as meeting all its criteria for effective phonics teaching

• The programme is endorsed by OFSTED for offering a thorough grounding in phonics.

• It delivers a multi-sensory and highly successful approach to the teaching of reading, spelling and writing

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Year 2 Phonics

In Year 2, the children continue to refine their reading and spelling skills by building on the phonemes, graphemes and trigraphs they already know.

A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in speech- for example, a in mat

A grapheme is a letter or a number of letters that represent a sound – for example, ai in wait

A trigraph is a single sound that is represented by three letters- for example, igh in high

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Year 2 Phonics

Children are taught that different spellings of phonemes can make the same sound, for example, air in lair, ayor in mayor, ar in care, eain bear.

A new target phoneme is introduced each week, and spelling tests include words covered during the course of the week.

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The phonics screening checkAll Year 2 children who did not meet the required standard in Year 1 will resit this check in June. The check ensures that all children are able to read by the end of Year 2.

Children are given a list of 40 words to read aloud to their teacher.

The list includes real words and non-words.

The non words are made up (alien words) to assess the child’s ability to to decode and read the word.

The check is age appropriate and lasts about ten minutes.

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What does the check look like?

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Common digraphs and trigraphs

ee – seek ie – pie ow – low

igh - high ue – blue ay - day

a_e – cake oo – look oi – oil

y – dry y – busy oa - boat

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How can you help at home?Read daily with your child.

Be a sound detective – ask children to find sounds

in their reading book –eg – words with ee

Practice rubbish or treasure (alien) words

Encourage your child to read labels when

shopping

Play phonics games available on line.

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Useful sites

www.phonicsplay.co.uk

http://primarytools.co.uk/pages/phonics.html

Pippop phonics screening app

Sounds~Write phonics app

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Questions

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If you have any questions

about what you should be

doing just ask your child’s

teacher. Good luck and enjoy

working together with your

child.

Thank You

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