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Key stage

Key Stage 1

Subject

Phonics

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~6 min

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This guide is written for grown-ups. Ask a parent, carer or teacher to share a short explanation and choose an activity with you. There are no questions to score in these slides.

This five-slide guide is for parents and carers. Read it alongside advice from your child's school. It contains information and suggestions, not scored pupil questions. Choose one suitable home activity and one question to discuss with the teacher.

Use this adult-facing guide to support a conversation with families about your school's phonics programme. Explain local teaching routines and suitable decodable books. The June 2026 threshold is historical information for that official check, not a benchmark for this guide or an unstandardised practice sheet.

After reading, identify the sounds or spellings to practise with school and choose a short activity using them. This guide does not assess a child's decoding or establish screening readiness. Record any observations separately and discuss them with the teacher.

How to study with For Parents: Supporting Year 1 Phonics

This parent guide connects the page examples with a practical study routine. The current resource is labelled Phonics, Key Stage 1, Year 1, Year 2, E-Learning Module. Use that framework, the learning summary and published prompts to clarify what effective work should demonstrate.

Prepare a focused session

Read the title and learning focus together. Ask the learner to recognise the knowledge, language or method they may need. Scan each sample and recognise instruction words, amounts, clues, constraints or new terms. Agree a manageable time window, reduce distractions and gather appropriate materials such as paper, pencil, ruler, coloured pens, calculator, headphones or a device. Encourage an unaided initial attempt so the response reveals secure understanding and uncertainty. A reflective pause often aids recall better than an same-session answer.

Make thinking shown

Invite the learner to describe the task in their own words. They can underline necessary information, separate a larger problem into individual steps, create a demonstrate, sort support, practise a sentence or describe a planned method. Ask why their method fits and whether another method could work. When movement stops, offer a staged hint: rephrase the goal, point towards a useful example, reduce the choice, then demonstrate only the next step. Return control directly afterwards. Spoken reasoning reveals misconceptions and practises accurate subject language.

Check accuracy and understanding

Compare the attempt with shown answer guidance after honest effort. Inspect more than the final response: review the method, explanation, units, support, sequence, spelling or presentation where useful. Ask the learner to locate the initial point where their reasoning changed course. Complete corrections actively in a different colour or new space, followed by a concise description of the correction. For a correct answer, ask for justification and one unaided check. This separates confident knowledge from guessing while developing accuracy, reflection and careful working habits.

Consolidate and extend

Finish with retrieval from memory. Cover the example and ask for the main idea, process or fact again. Create one small alternative by changing a value, condition, example, viewpoint or level of support while keeping the learning focus. Invite the learner to write a related question and supply checking guidance. Record one success and one specific next step, perhaps reviewing terminology, practising a calculation, adding support or refining clarity. Recheck that target again in the week because spaced review gives better information than same-session repetition.

The interactive player, downloadable file and record answer material retain their existing access controls. The guide aids preparation, discussion and review.

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What your child is learning
Phonics connects written letters with speech sounds. Your child learns to blend sounds to read words and to identify sounds when spelling. Digraph: two letters represent one sound, such as sh in ship or ee in see. Trigraph: three letters represent one sound, such as igh in night. Split digraph: the letters are separated, such as a-e in cake. Ask…
Say sounds, not letter names
For blending, say the sounds represented by the letters, then join them. In ship, point to sh - i - p. Say the three sounds and blend them into ship. Use the sound, rather than the letter name, for this activity. Keep it as clear as possible without adding an extra “uh”. Ask school for a demonstration if you are…
The Phonics Screening Check
In England, the check is usually taken in Year 1. It checks phonic decoding through 40 words read aloud: 20 real and 20 pseudo-words. Schools follow participation guidance; it is not correct to say every child must take it. Ask the teacher about your child. For June 2026, the official threshold was 31 out of 40. The mark can change…

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