4th November 2014

Delivered by Miss Charnock and Mrs

Hardman

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.

It sets out a detailed and systematic programme

for teaching phonic skills for children starting by

the age of five, with the aim of them becoming

fluent readers by age seven.

Blending for readingMerging phonemes together to pronounce a word.In order to read an unfamiliar word, a child must link a phoneme to each letter or letter group in a word and then merge them together to say the word.

sh – o – p

t– ai - l

Segmentation for spelling

Hearing individual phonemes within a word.

E.g. crash has 4 phonemes c – r – a – shIn order to spell a word a child must segment a word into the individual phonemes and choose a letter or letter combination to represent the phonemes.

For example a child may write:

‘‘The cat was blak. It had a wiet tayl and a pinc noas.’

Phase 1• There are 7 aspects with 3 strands.

•A1 – Environmental

•A2 – Instrumental sounds

•A3 – Body Percussion

•A4 – Rhythm and rhyme

•A5 – Alliteration

•A6 – Voice sounds

•A7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

Phase 2

•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

Phase 3

•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

This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the

previous phases.

Phase 5Children will broaden their knowledge of graphemes and phonemes. They will be taught alternative pronunciations for graphemes.

•Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au• Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/video/item108347/grade1/module63429/index.html

Phase 6In phase 6 children will be reading longer and less familiar texts independently and fluently. It is crucial that at this point children are now reading to learn and reading for pleasure. Children are introduced to the adding of suffixes and how to spell longer words. Throughout the phase children are encouraged to develop strategies for learning spellings. Children working at phase six can read hundreds of words automatically.

What does a Phonics lesson look like?

Revisit/review

Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far.

Teach Teach new phoneme airPractice Buried treasure

Air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair, vair, sair, thair

Apply Read captions:The goat had a long beard.The quack was right in his ear.

Year 1 Phonics Test

Please feel free to look at the resources we have set out in

the classrooms.