Year 1 Ready: GPS — phonics, sentences and spelling for parents (4 videos, 6 lesson cards, printables)

Year 1 is the year school stops being mostly play. Decode words, form letters on a line, add within twenty, and sit a phonics check in June. Most children manage it. Almost all of their parents want to know, at some point that year, whether what is happening at the kitchen table is the right thing.

What you get

• 4 videos, about 16 minutes
• 6 printable lesson cards — parent explainer, worked model, practice set, full answers with marking notes, and the common mistakes to watch for
• The Year 1 Ready Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling companion book, every lesson in one document
• The word lists to go with every card
• The slides from every video, including the overview deck
• A one-page A3 course map
• The full chart library: place value mats and Gattegno charts, hundred square, number lines, tens frames, all twelve times tables and the multiplication square, handwriting sheets in print and cursive, phonics phases 2 to 6, phoneme, digraph and trigraph charts, and the high frequency and common exception word lists

Who it is for

Parents of children in Year 1, or going into Year 1, who want to know what is expected and how to help. Tutors and childminders can use it as a ready-made scheme.

Covers digraphs, common exception words, capital letters and full stops, joining with 'and', and the June phonics check.

For use by one family or one classroom. Files may not be shared, resold or uploaded elsewhere.

Written and taught by Laura Masson — former headteacher, Director of Education. The video narration is produced using a licensed clone of my own voice.