Phonics for Parents

Learn all about phonics and find out how best to support your child to develop his/her phonics skills and become a better reader and writer.

Understanding Synthetic Phonics

Activities to Use with Your Child

Lesley's Activities

Orally Blending and Segmenting the Sounds in Words (2nd half of year in Nursery & 1st half of year in Reception)

Links to Activities on Other Websites

Nursery

Helping Your Child Discriminate EnvironmentaI Sounds

Helping Your Child to Hear Rhyme

Helping Your Child to Hear the First Sound of a Word

Helping Your Child to Orally Blend & Segment the Sounds in Words

Reception: Throughout the Year

Helping Your Child to Learn Letters (Graphemes) and Their Sounds in Reception

Helping Your Child to Read and Write Tricky Words in Reception

Reception: Autumn Term

Helping Your Child to Read and Write Words with 2-3 Sounds, Made up of Single Letters

Helping Your Child to Read and Write Words with 2-3 Sounds, Containing Double Letter Digraphs (eg ll, ss, ff, zz, ck)

Helping Your Child to Learn Letter Names

Helping Your Child to Read Words with 2-3 Sounds Containing Consonant Digraphs eg sh, ch, th, ng

Reception: Spring Term

Helping Your Child to Read and Write Words with 2-3 Sounds, Containing Vowel Digraphs eg ai

Reception: Summer Term

Helping Your Child to Read and Write Words with 2-5 Sounds, Containing Consonant Clusters

Y1: Throughout the Year

Helping Your Child to Learn Graphemes in Year 1

Helping Your Child to Read and Write Tricky Words in Y1

Y1: Autumn Term

Helping Your Child to Read & Write Words Containing New Graphemes

Helping Your Child to Read and Write Words Containing Graphemes Which Represent More Than 1 Sound

Y1: Spring and Summer Terms

Helping Your Child to Read and Write Words Containing Different Graphemes Representing a Phoneme (Sound)

Y2: Throughout the Year

Helping Your Child to Learn Less Common Graphemes

Helping Your Child to Spell Words with Suffixes (Endings)

Helping Your Child Learn to Spell Homophones

Helping Your Child to Spell Contractions

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