To look at how Year 2 teachers can assess the gaps in phonics learning, how to tackle the gap so it doesn’t become an ongoing feature of the current cohort of pupils as the journey through KS1.

Target Group Year 2 teachers and TAs

Course Content

• To ensure children know the skills for decoding for reading and encoding for spelling.
• To ensure children know how to read and spell words using vowel diagraphs.
• To ensure children have secure knowledge of all taught consonant and vowel diagraphs and trigraphs.
• To ensure children know new graphemes(different ways of spelling each sound) and alternative pronunciations for these: for example, learning that the grapheme ‘ow’ makes a different sound in ‘snow’ and ‘cow’. 
• To ensure children know split vowel digraphs such as the a-e in ‘name.’

• To ensure children become quicker at blending, and start to do it silently.
• To ensure children use the right graphemes when spelling, and will learn further tricky words.

Assess all of the above and ensure children are secure before starting Year 2 phonics.

Trainer Information

Clare Shivnan-Taylor – SLE /Phonics Lead Bury LA