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Daily Lesson Plans & Guidance
Ensure consistency with complete planning and guidance supplied for every phonics lesson for the first 4 years of schooling. Lessons are numbered from 1 to 268 and include revision, teaching a new sound or spelling, blending for reading and a sentence for dictation.
Decodable Books
Reading decodable books helps children develop the skills they need to read fluently and independently. It is essential not to use other strategies to work out words (including guessing words, deducing meaning from pictures, grammar, context clues or whole word recognition). Children need to read books in a progressive sequence until they can decode unfamiliar words confidently.
Daily worksheets
Help pupils both at home and school with these daily activities for reading, spelling and writing. Master letter formation at phases 2 and 3 and quickly learn to spell using the read, cover, write method
Progress through to writing alternative spellings for spoken sounds at phases 5 and 6. Undertake tasks that promote reading for meaning as well as phonics
Simple notes of guidance for parents about Letters and Sounds and how they can help their child with the activities at home through e.g. the correct pronunciations of phonemes
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Letters and Sounds Phases
Pre-K
Phase One paves the way for the systematic teaching of phonic work, by developing speaking, listening and language skills through adult-led activities and high-quality play. Phase One activities are designed to underpin and run alongside activities in other phases.
Lessons 1 - 23
The purpose of this phase is to teach at least 19 letters, and move children on from oral blending and segmentation to blending and segmenting with letters. By the end of the phase many children should be able to read and spell some VC and CVC words. They will also learn to read some high-frequency ‘tricky’ words: is, the, no, go, I, into, his, has, as, put, of
Lessons 24 - 35
Another 12 graphemes are taught. Children also continue to practise CVC blending and segmentation and will apply their knowledge of blending and segmenting to reading and spelling simple two-syllable words and captions. They will also learn to read some high-frequency ‘tricky’ words: said, her, he, my, for, be, you
Lessons 36 - 50
The purpose of this phase is to teach another 15 graphemes, most of them comprising two letters (e.g. oa), so the children can represent each of about 42 phonemes by a grapheme. Tricky words: she, all, me, we they
Lessons 51 - 68
The purpose of this phase is to consolidate children’s knowledge of graphemes in reading and spelling words containing adjacent consonants and polysyllabic words. Tricky words: are, there,so, were, like, have, do, come, some
Lessons 69 - 79
The purpose of this phase is to teach common word endings including suffixes. of graphemes in reading and spelling words containing adjacent consonants and polysyllabic words. Tricky words: one, out, about, love, today, say
Lessons 80 - 102
The purpose of this phase is for children to broaden their knowledge of graphemes and phonemes for use in reading and spelling. Tricky words: here, your, ask, people, oh, Mr, Mrs, Ms, their, water
Lessons 103 - 123
The purpose of this phase is for children to broaden their knowledge of graphemes and phonemes for use in reading and spelling. Tricky words: eye, again, any, many, friend, hour, work, through, pretty, shoe, two
Lesons 124 - 143
The purpose of this phase is for children to broaden their knowledge of graphemes and phonemes for use in reading and spelling. Tricky words: once, beautiful, different, thought, busy
Lessons 159 - 163
The purpose of this phase is for children to broaden their knowledge of graphemes and phonemes for use in reading and spelling. Tricky words: laugh, improve, move, call
Lessons 164 - 181
Children should know most of the common grapheme– phoneme correspondences (GPCs). They should be able to read hundreds of words by; reading the words atomatically; decoding them quickly and silently; decoding them aloud.
Lessons 182 - 198
Children will acquire more word-specific knowledge. They still need to segment words into phonemes to spell them, but they also learn that good spelling involves not only doing this and representing all the phonemes plausibly but also, where necessary, choosing the right grapheme from several possibilities.
Lessons 199 - 220
Children should be taught to think in terms of base words and suffixes whenever appropriate. Suffixes are easily learned and many base words will already be familiar from Phases Two to Five.
Lessons 221 - 243
Children should be taught to think in terms of base words and suffixes whenever appropriate. Suffixes are easily learned and many base words will already be familiar from Phases Two to Five.
Lessons 244 - 268
Teach/revise more word specific positional spellings and spelling rules. Add prefix: un (unhappy(. Add prefix: dis (disown).
Add suffixes and general spelling rules where changes maybe required to the base word.
Assessment Options
Grow the Code
Children can quickly be assessed using the online assessment tool. Results are recorded and sorted and the bottom 20% of children can be targeted for extra keep-up lessons.
For Schools
A fun and simple way to carry out summative assessments at the end of each phase. Assesses GPCs, blending for reading and tricky words. Record answers quickly on the excel spreadsheet or pdf sheets provided.
For Home
For Home
A one page quick and easy assessment to find out where your child/student is with their letter/sound knowledge.
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