Phase 1 Phonics Resources - Letters And Sounds

Phase 1 (Nursery)

The Letters and Sounds guidance outlined six progressive phases to the teaching and learning of phonics. Phases 2 to 6 now form the basis of most SSPs, including Monster Phonics, and Phase 1 was specifically designed to outline the ‘Principles and Practice of High Quality Phonics Teaching’ for nursery providers.

Our Nursery Programme is a comprehensive teaching programme for nurseries and nursery classes.

It covers all seven aspects of Phase 1 phonics, outlined in the Letters and Sounds guidance, and also recognises the importance of developing talk and language outlined in the Reading Framework. It has been developed alongside our DfE validated Systematic Synthetic Teaching Programme.

The 7 Aspects

Environmental sounds
instrumental sounds
Body percussion
Rhythm and rhyme
Alliteration
Voice sounds
Oral blending and segmenting

Within each aspect above, there are three strands:
■ Auditory discrimination – tuning-in to sounds
■ Auditory memory and sequencing – listening and recalling sounds
■ Developing vocabulary and language comprehension – talking about sounds

Structured activities with the seven aspects help children to:
1. listen attentively;
2. enlarge their vocabulary;
3. speak confidently to adults and other children;
4. discriminate phonemes;
5. reproduce audibly the phonemes they hear, in order, all through the word;
6. use sound-talk to segment words into phonemes.

Phase 1 Phonics Resources – Letters and Sounds

Phase 1 (Nursery)

Browse the phased phonics teaching structure for schools.

Phase 1 Phonics Resources – Letters and Sounds

Phase 1 (Nursery)

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