Phonics is a way of teaching children how to read and write. It helps children hear, identify and use different sounds that distinguish one word from another in the English language.
Written language can be compared to a code, so knowing the sounds of individual letters and how those letters sound when they’re combined will help children decode words as they read.
Understanding phonics will also help children know which letters to use when they are writing words.
Phonics involves matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters. For example, the sound k can be spelled as c, k, ck or ch.
Teaching children to blend the sounds of letters together helps them decode unfamiliar or unknown words by sounding them out. For example, when a child is taught the sounds for the letters t, p, a and s, they can start to build up the words: “tap”, “taps”, “pat”, “pats” and “sat”.
In Letters and Sounds Phase 2, letters and their sounds are introduced one at a time. A set of letters is taught in the following sequence:
Letters and Sounds for home and school guide for pronouncing phonemes. Watch to find out how to pronounce the sounds we use in the lesson videos.
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This Phase 3 sounds taught in Reception Spring 1 video is designed to be shared with families to help them support the learning at home.
Tricky words/sight words featured me, be, was, you, my, all, are, they, was.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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