1. Phonics Workshop
January 2017

2. In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme
In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme. Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education and Skills which consists of six phases.

3. Terminology Phoneme – a sound Graphemes – the letter
Graphemes – the letter
Segmenting and blending c – a – t
cat

4. Segmenting
Breaking down words for spelling.
cat
c a t

5. Building words from phonemes to read.
Blending
Building words from phonemes to read.
c a t
cat

6. Phase 1 There are 7 aspects with 3 strands. A1 – Environmental
A2 – Instrumental sounds
A3 – Body Percussion
A4 – Rhythm and rhyme
A5 – Alliteration
A6 – Voice sounds
A7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

7. Phase 2 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

8. Tricky words These words can’t be sounded out.
They need to be memorised as they are
“look and say”
Tricky words
Set 1: I, go, to, no, the, into
Set 2: he, she, we, me, be, was, you, they, all, are, my, her

9. Phase 3 Set 6: j, v, w, x Set 7: y, z, zz, qu
Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng

10. Phase 4
This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases at a later stage.
To help them learn to read and spell words which have adjacent consonants, such as trap, string and milk
Tricky words: said, have, like, so, do, some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what

11. Resources

12. Resources Letters and sounds: http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/
years/letters-and-sounds

13. Phonics information
Please see our website page and blogs for further information:
margaretmarys.manchester.sch.uk/