Children across the school take part in a 20 minute phonics lesson everyday (Children are set across the school according to ability in order to make sure they are working at their own level)

We teach the pure sounds ‘s’ not ‘ser’ ‘m’ not ‘mer’

Reception – Jolly phonics actions

Technical Vocabulary A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word How many phonemes can you hear in cat?

Technical Vocabulary Graphemes are the letters that represent the phonemes. Single letters Digraphs Trigraphs c i n ai ee oo ch sh air ear igh

Can you spot the phonemes in these words? Put sound buttons underneath speed crayon slight toast broom foil crawl jumper

Can you spot the phonemes in these words? Put sound buttons underneath Speed crayon Slight toast Broom foil Crawl jumper

Alternative Graphemes for Sounds ‘ai’ sound ai – rain. ay – say. a_e – came. ey – obey. eigh – eight. a – apron.

Alternative sounds for Graphemes ch ‘ch’ sound as in chop ‘sh’ sound as in chef ‘c’ sound as in chemist

Spelling rules/patterns Prefixes un- Suffixes -ing -ed -est -ment -ness -ful Homophones there, their Apostrophes contractions – can’t possessive – Collin’s Silent letter gn kn

Some useful websites www.phonicsplay.co.uk www.wickford-infants.iscoming.co.uk www.ictgames.com/literacy

Have fun completing your activities!