Tuesday 20th September 2016
In school, we follow the Letters and
Sounds programme. Letters and Sounds
is a phonics resource published by the
Department for Education and Skills
which consists of six phases.
Jolly Phonics is also used alongside this
programme.
TERMINOLOGY
•
Phoneme – The smallest unit of sound. There are approximately 44
phonemes in English. Phonemes can be put together to make words.
•
Graphemes – A way of writing down a phoneme. Graphemes can be
made up from 1 letter, 2 letters, 3 letters or 4 letters.
•
Segmenting and blending – See further slides.
•
Digraph – A grapheme containing two letters that makes just one
sound (phoneme) i.e. th, sh, oo
•
Trigraph – A grapheme containing three letters that makes just one
sound (phoneme) i.e. igh, air
•
Split digraph – See Phase 5 slide.
•
Abbreviations
PHASE 1
PRE-SCHOOL/RECEPTION
 There
 A1
are 7 aspects with 3 strands.
– Environmental
 A2 – Instrumental sounds
 A3 – Body Percussion
 A4 – Rhythm and rhyme
 A5 – Alliteration
 A6 – Voice sounds
 A7 – Oral blending and segmenting.
PHASE 2
RECEPTION
Set
1: s, a, t, p
Set 2: i, n, m, d
Set 3: g, o, c, k
Set 4: ck, e, u, r
Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss
Tricky words: I, to, no, go, the
PHASE 3
RECEPTION
Set
6: j, v, w, x
Set 7: y, z, zz, qu
Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th,
ng
Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa,
oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure,
er
PHASE 4
YEAR 1
This
phase consolidates
all the children have
learnt in the previous
phases.
 The
PHASE 5
YEAR 1
purpose of this phase is for children to
broaden their knowledge of graphemes and
phonemes for use in reading and spelling.
 Children will learn new graphemes and
alternative pronunciations for these and
graphemes they already know, such as ‘i’ in fin
and find or ‘o’ as in hot, cold.
 They will be taught split digraphs such as
what needs to be added to ‘tie’ to make ‘time’
 i_e
PHASE 6
YEAR 2
The
focus is on learning spelling
rules for suffixes.
-s
-er
-ful
-es
-est
-ly
-ing
-y
-ment
-ed
-en
-ness
YEAR 1 PHONICS TEST
Breaking
SEGMENTING
down words for spelling.
cat
c a t
SEGMENTING
queen
qu ee n
BLENDING
Building words from phonemes to
read.
c a t
cat
BLENDING
qu ee n
queen
WHAT DOES A PHONICS LESSON
LOOK LIKE?
Revisit/review Flashcards to practice
phonemes learnt so far.
Teach
Teach new phoneme air
Practice
Buried treasure
Air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair,
vair, sair, thair
Read captions:
The goat had a long beard.
The quack was right in his ear.
Apply
RESOURCES
www.phonicsplay.co.uk
http://jollylearning.co.uk/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/
http://www.familylearning.org.uk/phonics_games.html
http://mrthorne.com/
http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/ngfl/ngflflash/alphabet-eng/alphabet.htm
http://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/literacy/firstsounds/