23rd February 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
different phases.
What is phonics?
• Phonics is the link between letters and the
sounds they make.
• Using a highly structured programme working
through progressive phases, children are taught:
• The full range of common letter/ sound
correspondences.
• To hear separate sounds within words.
• To blend sounds together.
Can you read phonetically?
It iz tiem too gow
hoam sed v kator pilla.
But iy doat wont 2 gow
howm sed th butt or
flie. Iy wot to staiy
heyr.
SOME DEFINITIONS
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• Phoneme – The smallest unit of sound in a word.
• Grapheme – What we write to represent a sound/
phoneme – for some phonemes, this could be more
than one letter.
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• e.g. t ai igh
Oral blending
• Hearing a series of spoken sounds and merging
blending them together to make a spoken word
– no text is used.
• For example, when children hear /b/u/s, they
will say bus.
Blending
• Recognising the letter sounds in a
written
word, for example c- u- p, and blending
them in the order which they are
written, to read
the word ‘cup’.
SEGMENTING
Queen
qu ee n
Set
PHASE 2
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
Set
PHASE 3
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 5
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Children will be taught new graphemes and alternative
pronunciations for these 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
WHAT DOES A PHONICS LESSON
LOOK LIKE?
Revisit/review Flashcards/Quick write to
practice phonemes learnt so
far.
Teach
Teach new phoneme air
Practice
Apply
Buried treasure
Air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair,
vair, sair, thair
Read/ write captions:
The goat had a long beard.
The quack was right in his ear.
YEAR 1 PHONICS TEST
Useful websites
• www.parentsintouch.co.uk
• www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents
• www.jollylearning.co.uk
• www.phonicsplay.co.uk
• www.focusonphonics.co.uk
• www.syntheticphonics.com
RESOURCES
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk