EYFS and KS1 Phonics
At All Souls' we use the Bug Club resource to support the systematic teaching of phonics. Pupils from Reception and KS1 will engage in daily phonics sessions.
You can log into Bug Club by clicking the image below.
Phase 2
Phase 2 introduces children to letters, and their corresponding sound, in the following sequence:
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
The following resources will help you to support your child through Phase 2.
Grapheme Flash Cards Phase 2 Tricky Words
Captions for Practising Reading (Letter sets 1-5)
Phase 3
Phase 3 introduces 25 new graphemes. Once the children have been taught Sets 6 & 7 they learn about graphemes where more than one letter represents one sound e.g. the grapheme 'ai' represents one sound in the word 'pain'.
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
The following resources will help you to support your child through Phase 3.
Grapheme Flash Cards Phase 3 Tricky Words
Phase 3 Sentences (Letter sets 1-7)
Phase 4
In Phase 4, no new graphemes are introduced. The main aim of this phase is to consolidate the children's knowledge and for them to be able to blend an increasing number of sounds together in order to read.
CVC Words
The word 'pen' is a CVC word (consonant / vowel / consonant). Examples of other CVC words:-
- sad
- mud
- bin
CCVC Words
The word 'stop' is a CCVC word (consonant / consonant / vowel / consonant). Examples of other CCVC words:-
- trip
- club
- drum
CVCC Words
The word 'milk' is a CVCC word (consonant / vowel / consonant / consonant). Examples of other CVCC words:-
- hump
- bend
- rest
The following resources will help you to support your child through Phase 4.
Phase 4 Tricky Words Phase 4 Sentences
Phase 4 Yes/No Questions
Phase 5
In Phase Five, children will learn more graphemes and phonemes. For example, they already know 'ai' as in 'pain', but now they will be introduced to 'ay' as in 'way' and 'a-e' as in 'take'.
Some new graphemes for reading
| ay | ou | ie | ea | oy | ir | ue | ue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| day | out | pie | sea | boy | girl | clue | cue |
| play | about | lie | seat | toy | sir | blue | due |
| may | cloud | tie | bead | joy | bird | glue | hue |
| say | scout | die | read | oyster | shirt | true | venue |
| stray | found | cried | meat | Roy | skirt | Sue | value |
| clay | proud | tried | treat | destroy | birth | Prue | pursue |
| spray | sprout | spied | heap | Floyd | third | rue | queue |
| tray | sound | fried | least | enjoy | first | flue | statue |
| crayon | loudest | replied | steamy | royal | thirteen | issue | rescue |
| delay | mountain | denied | repeat | annoying | thirsty | tissue | argue |
| aw | wh | ph | ew | ew | oe | au | ey | |
| saw | when | who | Phillip | blew | stew | toe | Paul | money |
| paw | what | whose | Phillippa | chew | few | hoe | haul | honey |
| raw | which | whole | phonics | grew | new | doe | daub | donkey |
| claw | where | whom | sphinx | drew | dew | foe | launch | cockney |
| jaw | why | whoever | Christopher | screw | pew | woe | haunted | jockey |
| lawn | whistle | dolphin | crew | knew | Joe | Saul | turkey | |
| yawn | whenever | prophet | brew | mildew | goes | August | chimney | |
| law | wheel | phantom | flew | nephew | tomatoes | jaunty | valley | |
| shawl | whisper | elephant | threw | renew | potatoes | author | trolley | |
| drawer | white | alphabet | Andrew | Matthew | heroes | automatic | monkey | |
| a-e | e-e | i-e | o-e | u-e | |
| came | these | like | bone | June | huge |
| made | Pete | time | pole | flute | cube |
| make | Eve | pine | home | prune | tube |
| take | Steve | ripe | alone | rude | use |
| game | even | shine | those | rule | computer |
| race | theme | slide | stone | ||
| same | gene | prize | woke | ||
| snake | scene | nice | note | ||
| amaze | complete | invite | explode | ||
| escape | extreme | inside | envelope | ||
* words in italics are tricky words
The following resources will help you to support your child through Phase 5.
Grapheme Flash Cards Phase 5 Tricky Words
Phase 6
The main aim of Phase 6 is for children to read with more fluency and for them to become more accurate spellers.
They resources links below include word cards to practise adding suffixes such as -s, -es, -ing, -er, -ed etc.
Words with -s and -es suffixes
Adding suffixes to words ending with 'e'
Adding suffixes to words ending with 'y'
Adding suffixes to words ending with a single consonant
Words with suffixes -ing, -ed, -ful, -ly, -est, -er, -ment, -ness, -en