Overview of Phonic Phases: Sounds: Ay, Ou, Ie, Ea, Oy, Ir, Ue, Aw, WH, PH, Ew, Oe, Au, Ey, A - E, I - E, U - E, o - e

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Overview of phonic phases

Letters Approximate Phonics teaching Tricky words


and stage / age
Sounds
Phase 1 Nursery / Supports the importance of speaking and listening and develops children’s discrimination of sounds,
Reception – including letter sounds.
ongoing 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
Phase 2 Autumn term Children to be taught the phase 2 phonemes in the following order alongside the written grapheme. the, to, I, no, go
of reception 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 o
Children to be taught to orally blend and segment CVC words using the phase 2 phonemes.
Phase 3 Spring and Set 6 – j, v, w, x he, she, we, me, be, was, my, you,
summer term Set 7 – y, z, zz, qu (last of Letters and Sounds ‘sets’) they, her, all, are
of reception - 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
Phase 4 Summer term The children learn to read and spell words containing adjacent consonants said, so, have, like, some, come,
of reception o Children to revise and recall all Phase 2 and 3 phonemes. were, there, little, one, do, when,
(revisited in o Children to read and write CCVC and CVCC words. out, what
Autumn 1,
Year 1)
Phase 5 Autumn 2, The children broaden their knowledge of sounds for use in reading and spelling. They will begin to build oh, their, people, Mr, Mrs, looked,
Spring, word-specific knowledge of the spellings of words. called, asked
Summer of Sounds: ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, ey, a_e, i_e, u_e, o_e
Year 1
Phase 6 Throughout Working on spelling, including prefixes and suffixes, doubling and dropping letters etc
Year 2 and
beyond

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