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Read Write Inc Glossary
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Term |
Definition |
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Fred |
Fred is a frog puppet we use in sessions. He can only speak in sounds. |
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Fred talk |
sounding out a word, saying each of the sounds before blending |
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Fred fingers |
‘Pinching’ each sound from a word on your fingers to help spell a word |
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Green words |
Decodable words |
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Red words |
Irregular words that cannot be sounded out |
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Story Green words |
decodable words that will be included in the storybook |
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Speedy green words |
decodable words in the storybook that children should be able to read at speed rather than Fred talking first. |
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Fred in your Head |
still sounding out a word but doing so in your head rather than out loud, helps build fluency. |
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Special friends |
Two or three letters working together to make one sound e.g. sh, ch, igh, air, a-e, i-e. |
Key terms we use in our teaching:
- Digraph – two letters make one sound (e.g. sh, ch, ai, ea, ou, ow).
- Trigraph – three letters make one sound (e.g. igh, ear, air, ure).
- Split digraph – two letters make one sound but the letters have been split apart by another letter.
- Phoneme – a single unit of sound
- Grapheme – a written letter, or group of letter that represent a sound.
- Consonants – b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z
- Blend – to put or merge the sounds together to make a word (e.g. the sounds d-o-g are blended to the word ‘dog’.)
- Segment – to break down the word into its individual sounds to spell (e.g cat can be split into the sounds c-a-t.).
- Sound buttons – ways of visually isolating different sounds in a word. We use a dot under letters where one letter makes one sound and a line understand digraphs or trigraphs.
Useful resources
Oxford Owl
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/
Ruth Miskin facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/miskin.education
Ruth Miskin website, parents section
https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Year 1 Phonics Screening Test
At the end of the summer term, children in year 1 sit a statuary phonics screening test. During this test, the children’s phonic knowledge and skills are tested. The table below shows the percentage of children in year 1 that passed the screening test at Park Road School and also nationally over two years.
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
| % of children that passed the year 1 phonics screening test at BPA | 86 | 90.5 (Assessment took place in Oct when children in Y2 due to lockdown) | 82.8 |
| % of children that passed the year 1 phonics screening test in Kirklees | 79 | 76.1 | 78.8 |
| % of children that passed the year 1 phonics screening test nationally | 82 | Not available | Not available |
These results clearly demonstrate the impact that the teaching and learning of phonics has for our children at Park Road School
