Letters and Sounds

Phase Two

Child writingDevelops children's knowledge of grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPC), their skills of blending and segmenting with letters and recognition of high frequency words containing GPCs not taught at that phase.

Duration: up to six weeks. Develops children's knowledge of 19 letters of the alphabet with one sound for each. Teaches and practises the skills of blending separate sounds together into whole words for reading and segmenting whole words into separate sounds for spelling.

Resources

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Adobe acrobat document Phase Two | 980Kb

Articulation of phonemes

Practising grapheme recognition and recall

Practising oral blending and segmentation

Teaching and practising blending for reading

Teaching and practising segmentation for spelling

Teaching grapheme-phoneme correspondence

Teaching tricky words