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Phonics Handbook
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This Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds Handbook provides full support for integrating the Big Cat series into your phonic teaching, including: Targeted lesson plans that guide practice of reading comprehension strategies and vocabulary development, ensuring every pupil reaches age-related expectations. Advice for demonstration and modelling, supporting pupils in developing fluency and correct pronunciation from the start. Engaging phonic activities and resource sheets allow further exploration of every phoneme and grapheme in Letters and Sounds in the context of each Big Cat book. Support for using every Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds book in a phonics reading session. Formative and summative assessment opportunities to fully assess pupil progress in phonic learning.
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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features high-quality, exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire young readers. The books are fully aligned with Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain reading notes inside every book to get the most out of a reading session.
Phonics Handbook
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Authors: Emily Guille-Marrett and Charlotte Raby
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Authors: Emily Guille-Marrett and Charlotte Raby
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ISBN 978-0-00-826421-5
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Big Cat Phonics assessment Use the Big Cat Phonics assessments to work out which band of book each child should be reading. Instructional reading level is at 90% word accuracy. This is the correct level of challenge for children when they are being taught to read and when they are practising the phonemes and graphemes they already know. Note: Reading at home: Independent reading level should be at 95% word accuracy, so that children are successful when they are reading without an adult’s support. Of course, this doesn’t mean that parents and carers cannot read and share a wide range of picture books with their child at home. Indeed, this is essential for developing a love of literature and learning a wide range of skills, such as developing a rich vocabulary.
Teacher instructions: termly assessments • Use these assessments every six weeks to check children’s progress. • Start the assessment at the level the child was secure at the last time they were assessed. Do not go back to the beginning. • Use the grouping grid on page 35 to work out which book band is appropriate for each child. • The grouping grid also has guidance on which graphemes to teach at each band of Big Cat Phonics.
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Tick each grapheme or word that is read correctly. Circle any word or part of a word that is read incorrectly. Say the sounds. Ask the child to repeat the sounds and blend the word. It is acceptable if a child automatically blends the word without sounding out.
Ask the child to read each sound in order and blend them to read. It is acceptable if a child automatically blends the word without sounding out.
Tell the child that these are nonsense or alien words. They will not make sense! Ask the child to read each sound in order and blend them to read.
Ask the child to read the words without blending. Tell them to say the sounds in their head before reading. If they cannot read the word without blending, draw a wavy line above the word.
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Term 1 teacher assessment sheet
Student name:
Class:
Date:
Book Band: Pink A/Band 1A a
New graphemes
s
Oral
p-i-n
t
p
i
m-a-t
n
m
d
k
e
zz
qu
s-i-p
Book Band: Pink B/Band 1B New graphemes
f
Read and blend
hot
h
b
g
cup
o
peck
c
u
r
l
ck
ff
ll
ch
th
ng
ss
gas
Book Band: Red A/Band 2A New graphemes
j
Sound out and blend
zip
Alien words
fozz
v
w
x
vet
y
jam
juck
z
quick
shut
sh
with
nk
chip
beng
Book Band: Red B/Band 2B New graphemes
ai
ee
igh
Sound out and blend
main see market
Alien words
joap
oa high
laif
oo
oo
goat
ar
book
or
er
for
shark
zoom
quicker
hammer
charb
Book Band: Yellow/Band 3 Review graphemes
ur
Sound out and blend
turn
fear
crack
cow
Read without sounding (HFW)
this
then
down
look
Alien words
scresh
ow
oi
prib
ear
air
ure chair
er spring
join
sure
list
crat
Book Band: Blue/Band 4 Sound out and blend
bright
Read without sounding (HFW)
went
Alien words
spaim
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green from plear
spoilt just
spear
boast
train
frighten
groom
help
cloig
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Term 1 student assessment sheet – part 1
Pink B/Band 1B
Pink A/ Band 1A
Student name:
Class:
a
s
a
t
p
i
n
m
d
a
s
a
t
p
i
n
m
d
zz
qu
b
Red A/Band 2A
hot
peck
b
zip vet jam with chip fozz ai or
a Red B/Band 2B
cup
gas
j v w x y ch th ng nk
a
b
juck ee er
igh
z quick
sh
shut
beng oa
oo
oo
ar
main see high goat book for shark zoom quicker hammer market joap
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Big Cat Phonics assessment
Grouping grid Book Band Children are ready to read the books at this band when they can:
Teach these sounds to prepare for the next band:
Pink A/ Band 1A
f, h, b, g, o, c, k, e, u, r, l, ck
Read without hesitation: s a t p i n m d
ff, ll, ss
Oral practice: repeat the sounds back and blend the words Pink B/ Band 1B
Read without hesitation: f h b g o c k e
j, v, w, x, y, z u
r
l
ck
ff
ll
ss
Sound out and blend at least three words. Red A/ Band 2A
Read without hesitation: j v w x y z zz qu
zz, qu sh, ch, th, ng, nk ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, oo, ar, or, er
sh
ch
th
ng
nk
Sound out and blend at least five words. Sound out and blend at least two alien words. Red B/ Band 2B
Read without hesitation: ai ee igh oa oo oo
ar
or
er
Sound out and blend at least nine words. Sound out and blend at least two alien words. Yellow/ Band 3
Read without hesitation: ur ow oi ear air ure er Sound out and blend at least seven words. Reading without blending three high frequency words.
Review: ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er Teach: adjacent consonants with short vowel sounds Review: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, oo, ar, or, er, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er Teach: adjacent consonants with long vowel sounds
Sound out and blend at least two alien words. Blue/ Band 4
Sound out and blend at least six words. Reading without blending three high frequency words.
All alternate vowel graphemes (see Scope and Sequence: Green)
Sound out and blend at least two alien words.
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