Easily transform your Phase 1 teaching with this comprehensive planning and resource bundle, which enables you to teach and assess Phase 1 in a systematic, step by step way, using fun, engaging and effective activities. 

Perfect for:

• Nurseries & pre-schools
• working with older children who need additional support with these foundational listening skills during the earliest stages of your school's chosen SSP programme

What's included:

• a long term plan for teaching the auditory discrimination and memory skills from Phase 1
• detailed medium-term planning (23 pages), combining the 7 aspects of Letters and Sounds with the 6 step approach from 'Super Sounds' by Emma Spiers'. Each aspect/ step is broken into the 4 constituent skills  of 'tuning into sounds', 'talking about sounds', 'auditory discrimination' and 'auditory memory'. Each listening skill has been matched to activities from Super Sounds by Emma Spiers and Lesley Clarke’s Phase 1 Activity Pack, which you also get as part of this bundle. 
• Lesley Clarke's Phase 1 Activity Pack, which breaks down the skills from aspects 4 (rhythm). 5 & 7 into mini steps with early years friendly activities to use for each (see below for further details)
• a digital copy of 'Super Sounds' by Emma Spiers which contains lots of early years friendly actvities linked to stories and songs
• a Phase 1 assessment spreadsheet which enables you to see all children's skills at a glance over just 2 pages of A4 (if you print out) or 2 tabs if used electronically. T

Why use this resource?:

• The long term plan helps you know what to focus on each half term.
• The MT plan makes it quick & easy for you to identify which skills to focus on each week to meet the needs of all your learners
• The Super Sounds book & Lesley Clarke's Phase 1 Activity Pack make it simple to choose early years friendly activities to develop your chosen skills each week.
• The assessment tool enables you to track children's progress through the auditory discrimination and memory aspects of Phase 1 and identify groups of children who need additional support or extension activities

I strongly advise everyone buying this bundle to attend my online training on 'Effective Teaching of Phase 1', as it will explain the structure of the MT plan and how to use it effectively to meet the needs of your learners. Contact me for the date of the next session.

Discover the easy way to teach these aspects, with the key listening skills below broken down into mini steps to facilitate progress. Activity descriptions, word lists and suggestions for objects you can use are provided to make it easy for support staff to do activities with children.

Paricularly useful for interventions in Reception, as these are the key listening skills needed to facilitate progress in reading and spelling.

The following aspects of Phase 1 are covered:

Aspect 4:

Putting together syllables to make words (needed for reading long words)

Breaking words into syllables (needed for spelling long words)

Aspect 5:

Hearing the first sound of a word (needed to make use of many grapheme mnemonics for learning GPCs and also for starting to write words)

Aspect 7:

Oral blending (needed for reading words)

Oral segmenting (needed for spelling words)

NB: This pack is included in the Phase 1 Planning & Activity Bundle above.