Phonics
At Riverbridge we teach phonics using letters and sounds. Throughout the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 phonics is taught daily in discreet 20 minute sessions. For information about what is taught in each phase of letters and sounds please see the table below.
Phase |
Phonic Knowledge and Skills |
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. |
Phase Two (Reception) up to 6 weeks |
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 s ss |
Phase Three (Reception) up to 12 weeks |
Set 6 - j v w x Set 7 - y z zz qu Consonant digraphs - ch sh th ng Vowel digraphs (and trigraphs) ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er By the end of phase 3 children will know 1 grapheme for each phoneme. Children are taught letter names |
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. |
Phase Five (Throughout Year 1) |
Children learn more graphemes for the phonemes which they already know, plus different ways of pronouncing the graphemes they already know. They are also introduced to split digraphs. |
Phase Six (Throughout Year 2 and beyond) |
Working on spelling, including prefixes and suffixes, doubling and dropping letters etc. |
Phoncis Information Evening
On Thursday 2nd October we held a Phonics Information Evening for parents which had over 100 people in attendance and was a great success. Please find links below to the PowerPoint and leaflet from the evening.