EYFS and KS1 Phonics

At All Souls' we use the Letters and Sounds resource to support the systematic teaching of phonics. At the start of Reception year, pupils begin the Letters and Sounds programme and continue it across Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2). Pupils from Reception and KS1 will engage in daily phonics sessions, where they will work on the relevant Phase of the Letters and Sounds programme.

Phase 1

Phase One of Letters and Sounds concentrates on developing children's speaking and listening skills and focuses on sounds in everyday life, rather than in words. In order for children to be ready to begin developing oral blending and segmenting skills, they need to be tuned in to the sounds they hear around them.

The website below has many good resources for Phase 1 - click on the banner.

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:-

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.

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