Letters and sounds when was it introduced

Set 3 introduces four new letters, with 28 new decodable words suggested, including four high frequency words shown in italics below:. Set 4 introduces four new graphemes, with 36 new decodable words suggested. For the first time, some of the suggested words contain two syllables, such as pocket, sunset, etc.

Personally, I would leave these out if they cause problems. At this stage, it is more important for children to experience success at sounding out short words. Their ability to decode longer words will improve as their short-term memory develops. Set 5 introduces seven graphemes three of which are doubled letters , with 69 new decodable words suggested.

Skip to content Take a look at our free, printable Phase 2 resources , Phase 2 games , or Phase 2 videos. A set of letters is taught each week, in the following sequence: Set 1: s, a, t, p Set 2: i, n, m, d Set 3: g, o, c, k Set 4: ck, e, u, r Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss As soon as each set of letters is introduced, children will be encouraged to use their knowledge of the letter sounds to blend and sound out words.

Phase 2 Set 1 letters and words In Set 1, the first four letters are introduced: s, a, t, p Seven words can be used for segmenting and blending high frequency words are shown in italics : at, a, sat, pat, tap, sap, as Phase 2 Set 2 letters and words Set 2 includes four new letters.

Graphemes such as ch, oo, th representing the remaining phonemes not covered by single letters. Reading captions, sentences and questions. 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. Children learn more graphemes for the phonemes which they already know, plus different ways of pronouncing the graphemes they already know. Phase Six Throughout Year 2 and beyond Working on spelling, including prefixes and suffixes, doubling and dropping letters etc. 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.

Learning 19 letters of the alphabet and one sound for each. The remaining 7 letters of the alphabet, one sound for each. No new grapheme-phoneme correspondences are taught in this phase.