2. 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)

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

4. Reception – Jolly phonics actions

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

6. 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

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

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

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

11. Alternative sounds for Graphemesch
‘ch’ sound as in chop
‘sh’ sound as in chef
‘c’ sound as in chemist

12. 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

15. Some useful websites www.phonicsplay.co.uk

16. Have fun completing your activities!