Make Phonics Fun - Year 1 Phonics Screening

Prepare for the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check with Make Phonics Fun: Play, Practise, Test.  The Year 1 Phonics Screening will be compulsory for all maintained primary schools, academies and free schools in England to administer during w/c 18th June 2012. 

Make Phonics Fun: Play, Practise, Test is a set of resources that makes teaching phonics at Key Stage 1 and preparing pupils for the new Year 1 Phonics Screening Check both topical and fun.

There are three books in the series - covering autumn, spring or summer topics - which can be used progressively to build up your pupils' phonics practice.

Each book has six fantastic topics based around popular themes – so there are 18 topics in total.

For each topic there is a range of lively and original texts – including stories, non-fiction and poetry – as well as picture prompts and photocopiable activities and games, all accompanied by Teachers’ Notes.

In addition, to provide practice for the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check, 20 real and 20 pseudo words are supplied as photocopiable test cards with each topic.

What topics can be found inside each book?

• Make Phonics Fun – Summer topics:
  Holidays, Pets, Transport, Minibeasts, Fairytales, All about me.
   
• Make Phonics Fun – Autumn topics:
  School life, Weather, Celebrations, Magic, Rhythm & Rhyme, Night time.
   
• Make Phonics Fun – Spring topics:
  Spring, Colour, Food, Monsters, Homes, Dinosaurs

Each book is stand alone and, while some of the themes within each book are topical, many are interchangeable across the seasons. However, there is a natural progression in level of difficulty through the three books: the autumn topics are geared at pupils just starting Year 1, while the summer topics are aimed at pupils preparing to take the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check in the final school term.

The Make Phonics Fun series will complement your existing phonics schemes and support the development of reading across the KS1 curriculum. Written by an experienced primary literacy team, all the books are accessible and easy to use, offering everything you need to get started straight away.

In short, the series offers all the resources you need to enable your pupils to apply their phonics knowledge across the curriculum and to develop their phonics skills in context, through play and by making use of their environment.