Featherstone All Saints CofE Academy

Supports the importance of speaking and listening and develops children’s discrimination of sounds, including letter sounds. Activities are divided into seven aspects, including environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body sounds, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and finally oral blending and segmenting.

Children to be taught the phase 2 phonemes in the following order alongside the written grapheme.

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

Children to be taught to orally blend and segment CVC words using the phase 2 phonemes.

Set 6 – j, v, w, x

Set 7 – y, z, zz, qu (last of Letters and Sounds ‘sets’)

- sh, th, ch, ng

- ai, ee, long oo, short oo

- oa, ar, or, igh - ur, ow, oi, ear

- er, air, ure

Completes the teaching of the alphabet and moves on to sounds represented by more than one letter. The children will learn letter names and how to read and spell some tricky words

he, she, we, me, be, was, my, you, they, her, all, are

The children learn to read and spell words containing adjacent consonants

Children to revise and recall all Phase 2 and 3 phonemes.

Children to read and write CCVC and CVCC words

said, so, have, like, some, come, were, there, little, one, do, when, out, what

The children broaden their knowledge of sounds for use in reading and spelling. They will begin to build word-specific knowledge of the spellings of words.

Sounds: ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, ey, a_e, i_e, u_e, o_e

oh, their, people, Mr, Mrs, looked, called, asked