Get your student/child up to speed with blending for reading and segmenting for spelling

Revise the sounds - Check the sounds - Blend /Segment the sounds

Before you do blending, check the sounds (5 minutes video)

About Synthetic Phonics (12 minutes video)

Most of our phonic products are designed according to the British School Phonics Curriculum Guide - Letters and Sounds

Click link below to go to individual phase: This guide contains materials that concentrate on activities to promote speaking and listening skills, phonological awareness and oral blending.

Please also see this: Notes of Guidance for Practioners and Teachers on the Letters and Sounds Programme

Phase 1 (pre-phonics), 7 aspects of learning

Phase 2 - s, a, t, p, i , n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss. Teaching and practising blending for reading and segmenting for spelling of VC and CVC words, words of two-syllable words, tricky words

Phase 3 - j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er, practising blending for reading and segmenting for spelling, tricky words

Phase 4 - consolidate knowledge in Phase 2 and 3, br, bl, cr, cl, nt, mp, .... teaching and practise of the blending for reading and segmenting for spelling of adjacent consonants CVCC, CCVC

Phase 5 - alternative graphemes (spellings) of all sounds already learnt in Phase 2/3

Phase 6 - children become fluent readers and increasingly accurate spellers, teaching of past tense, suffixes, prefixes