Phonics videos
Click the following link to access videos tutorial explanations providing information about phonics. Please watch them for information about what phonics is, how to enunciate the sounds, and to find out how phonics is taught at CTK.
Phonics and reading page
Click here to access the curriculum page about phonics and reading
Year 1 Phonics and Spellings
Phonics
Year 1 phonics will begin by recapping phase 4 phonics.
The majority of phonics taught in Year 1 will be phase 5.
See the videos below for how the say the phonic sounds.
HOW TO PRONOUNCE THE PHONIC SOUNDS
Enunciation of phase 2 sounds
Enunciation of phase 3 sounds
PHASE 3 DIGRAPHS
PHASE 5 SOUNDS
PHASE 5 SOUNDS WITH RHYMES
The following documents are advice for helping your child to learn to read and write.
How to help your child read using phonics
How to help you child learn to read
To find out more information about blending and segmenting for reading and writing click here.
Phonics screening check
The phonics screening check assesses children on how well they can decode certain words. Decoding means sounding out an unfamiliar written word. To do this, children will need to be able to recognise letters and the sounds that they represent. This is an important part of achieving reading fluency! This check usually takes place in June of the Year 1 school year.
For more information about the phonics screening check click here.
Below are the some previous phonics screening tests.
Click here for the phonics screening test 2019
Click here for the phonics screening test 2018
Click here for the phonics screening test 2017
Click here for the phonics screening test 2016
Click here for the phonics screening test 2015
Spellings
Spelling folders will be sent home every Friday. The spellings should be learnt at home throughout the week for the test on the following Friday. Ideas for how to help learn spellings can be found below on this page.
Spelling folders will need to be handed back in every Friday. The spellings to learn for each week for Autumn 1 have been added below. Click on the links the see the spellings. (Hand in Friday – back out the same Friday).
Click on the following links to find ideas to help learn spellings.
More ideas for learning spellings
Spellings for Autumn 2
With the phase 5 spellings I will also ask the children to spell 2 words that they have not been given to learn. These words will contain the spelling sounds for that week. The children will have to use and apply their phonics skills to spell these words independently. The extra spellings will be on weeks when there are only 8 spellings to learn.
Spellings for Spring 1 2025
Spellings given out on 13th & 20th December (test Friday 10th January)– wh and ew words – whisk, when, which, wheel, flew, brew, screw, chew – oe and ew said as you – hoe, tiptoe, doe, goes, few, new, stew, newt
Spellings given out on January 10th - au & a-e words – Paul, haul, sauna, August, safe, gate, chase, spade
Spellings given out on January 17th - e-e & i-e words – eve, Pete, swede, theme, time, hide, slide, sunshine
Spellings given out on January 24th - o-e & u-e words – bone, home, stone, smoke, rule, prune, rude, flute
Spellings given out on January 31st - u-e (said as you) & i (said as igh) – use, fuse, mule, mute, iris, Friday, kind, find
Spellings given out on February 7th - split digraph revision – flame, made, these, Steve, glide, bite, rope, alone, June, prune
Spellings given out on February 14th - digraph application - This week’s spellings are based on the a-e, i-e, e-e, o-e, u-e split digraph sounds. I am not sending a spelling list home but on the day I will choose words that contain these sounds so that your child can use and apply their phonics knowledge. Please learn the split digraph sounds at home.
Phase 3 spellings (Mrs. Windle's group) Spring 1 2025
Spellings given out on 13th & 20th December (test 10th January) – th words – thin, bath, thud, moth – th said as the words – this, then, that, with
Spellings given out on January 10th – ng sound - wing, song, hang, rung, long
Spellings given out on January 17th – ai sound - rain, sail, chain, wait, paid
Spellings given out on January 24th – ee sound - see, feet, deep, seed, sheep
Spellings given out on January 31st – igh sound - high, sigh, light, might, night
Spellings given out on February 7th – oa sound - toad, soap, loaf, oak, boat
Spellings given out on February 14th - oo sound – moon, food, pool, tooth, shoot
Phase 2 words (Mrs. Sudall's group) Spring 1 2025
Spellings given out on 13th & 20th December (test Friday 10th January)– the letters – random test of 5 letters from the 26 letters of the alphabet
Spellings given out on January 10th : cat, sad, ran
Spellings given out on January 17th : ten, hen, leg
Spellings given out on January 24th : bin, fit, lip
Spellings given out on January 31st : pot, top, rob
Spellings given out on February 7th : run, put, dug
Spellings given out on February 14th : pat, can, map
Handwriting in Year 1
At Christ the King, we follow the Red Rose Letters and Sounds Programme, providing a synthetic approach to the teaching of phonics, from Foundation Stage, through KS1 and into KS2 if appropriate.
As soon as our children enter our Foundation Stage (EYFS), provision is carefully planned to support our children to further develop and strengthen their fine motor skills required for writing. This includes lots of activities to get children using their pincer grip. This includes using tweezers, screws and bolts, malleable materials (playdough), threading, cutting and sticking tasks.
As the children begin to form letters during the Foundation Stage, they are taught to form each letter (grapheme) using the letter formation from Red Rose Letters and Sounds. This is further developed in Year 1, where the children aim to form all letters in a print style.
It is recommended that when teaching letter formation, a phrase is used in order to embed the directionality. Adults who teach letter formation are encouraged to use the same approach as children learn effectively through repetition. The letter formation used at Christ the King can be seen below.
