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Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education and Skills in 2007. It aims to build children's speaking and listening skills in their own right as well as to prepare children for learning to read by developing their phonic knowledge and skills. It sets out a detailed and systematic programme for teaching phonic skills for children starting by the age of five, with the aim of them becoming fluent readers by age seven
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There are six overlapping phases. The table below is a summary based on the Letters and Sounds guidance for Practitioners and Teachers. The entire scheme of work is provided in PDF format below.


Phases and Phonic Knowledge and Skills
  1. aartsuk.org_logos_pdf_icon16.gif Phase One(Nursery/Reception): Activities are divided into seven aspects, including environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body sounds, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and finally oral blending and segmenting.
  2. aartsuk.org_logos_pdf_icon16.gif Phase Two(Reception:up to 6 weeks) Learning 19 letters of the alphabet and one sound for each. Blending sounds together to make words. Segmenting words into their separate sounds. Beginning to read simple captions.
  3. aartsuk.org_logos_pdf_icon16.gif Phase Three(Reception:up to 12 weeks) The remaining 7 letters of the alphabet, one sound for each. Graphemes such as ch, oo, th representing the remaining phonemes not covered by single letters. Reading captions, sentences and questions. On completion of this phase, children will have learnt the "simple code", i.e. one grapheme for each phoneme in the English language.
  4. aartsuk.org_logos_pdf_icon16.gif Phase Four(Reception:4 to 6 weeks) No new grapheme-phoneme correspondences are taught in this phase. Children learn to blend and segment longer words with adjacent consonants, e.g. swim, clap, jump.
  5. aartsuk.org_logos_pdf_icon16.gif Phase Five(Throughout Year 1) Now we move on to the "complex code". Children learn more graphemes for the phonemes which they already know, plus different ways of pronouncing the graphemes they already know.
  6. aartsuk.org_logos_pdf_icon16.gif Phase Six(Throughout Year 2 and beyond) Working on spelling, including prefixes and suffixes, doubling and dropping letters etc.
  7. aartsuk.org_logos_pdf_icon16.gif Appendix
 

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These are wonderful. I wish that they had been around when my kids were smaller, but I will definitely pass them on to my brother for my nephew. Thanks so much for sharing.
 
My sister used it for her kids and we do see that it's very effective in helping children become familiar with letters and how they sound. I think these materials covers the most important fundamentals of reading and speaking.
 
Oh wow. Thanks so much for posting these. I passed this information along to my brother. My nephew is 5 and is in the process of learning a lot of this stuff. I think that there is a lot of value in learning to read phonetically...it's how I read today. These resources are invaluable. Thanks again!
 
Wow, thank you for sharing this with us! I have a son who's turning two years old this year. I am quite excited to be teaching him when he's going to school already. Right now, we're just in the basics, letters and numbers. But I'm sure this can help us when he's already studying in school. I will be downloading these resources right now so I won't lose it.
 
This is great. This is something I've been looking for to help my niece with her English language. I hope she's just as excited as I am.
 
This is quite an exhaustive resource. Some children are assumed to be dislexic and others have language and speech problems since the teaching aids were limited. I remember when I was in elementary school, we were largely on our own. I was lucky to get my diction and phonetics on a sound footing at the back of our house where I practiced the alphabet with chalk and charcoal on the floor.
 
These are all very great resources for teaching basic English to children. My cousin has a 4 year old child so I'm sure he'll appreciate this so much. Thanks for sharing!
 
This is yet another great resource for elementary education providers especially ECDE teachers. The cornerstone of fluency in languages is laid at the infancy of learning. In some countries especially in the Third World, it is not uncommon to find Std.8 class pupils unable to express themselves in English. The problem was even detected in the legal profession of a certain country in East Africa.
 
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing these resources. :) Although my child is already past this stage of learning, I could still use them for my plans in doing tutorial lessons for beginners.
 
Seems the link to Phase One(Nursery/Reception): is not working. I'd really love to get a look at that one. My niece is excited about learning and she's a fast one. Anything at all that can help her continue to excel is more than welcome. Our aim is to feed her sense of independence in learning, so the right tools are really necessary.
 
I am thankful to get back in this site after a long reprieve. The file will be helpful in helping young minds to learn best. This will be of great help to my young nephew for his learning years.
 
DrEdu said:
Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education and Skills in 2007. It aims to build children's speaking and listening skills in their own right as well as to prepare children for learning to read by developing their phonic knowledge and skills. It sets out a detailed and systematic programme for teaching phonic skills for children starting by the age of five, with the aim of them becoming fluent readers by age seven
.

There are six overlapping phases. The table below is a summary based on the Letters and Sounds guidance for Practitioners and Teachers. The entire scheme of work is provided in PDF format below.


Phases and Phonic Knowledge and Skills
  1. View attachment 68086 Phase One(Nursery/Reception): Activities are divided into seven aspects, including environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body sounds, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and finally oral blending and segmenting.
  2. View attachment 68086 Phase Two(Reception:up to 6 weeks) Learning 19 letters of the alphabet and one sound for each. Blending sounds together to make words. Segmenting words into their separate sounds. Beginning to read simple captions.
  3. View attachment 68086 Phase Three(Reception:up to 12 weeks) The remaining 7 letters of the alphabet, one sound for each. Graphemes such as ch, oo, th representing the remaining phonemes not covered by single letters. Reading captions, sentences and questions. On completion of this phase, children will have learnt the "simple code", i.e. one grapheme for each phoneme in the English language.
  4. View attachment 68086 Phase Four(Reception:4 to 6 weeks) No new grapheme-phoneme correspondences are taught in this phase. Children learn to blend and segment longer words with adjacent consonants, e.g. swim, clap, jump.
  5. View attachment 68086 Phase Five(Throughout Year 1) Now we move on to the "complex code". Children learn more graphemes for the phonemes which they already know, plus different ways of pronouncing the graphemes they already know.
  6. View attachment 68086 Phase Six(Throughout Year 2 and beyond) Working on spelling, including prefixes and suffixes, doubling and dropping letters etc.
  7. View attachment 68086 Appendix
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This is an effective way to teach reading and speaking. We begin be teaching individual letter sounds then combine with vowels. We build on this till the time when the learner's can read everything.
 
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