What is taught in Phase 2 of Letters and sounds?

Children entering Phase Two will have experienced a wealth of listening activities, including songs, stories and rhymes. The purpose of this phase is to teach at least 19 letters, and move children on from oral blending and segmentation to blending and segmenting with letters.

What’s the password to phonics play?

Please use the link to access the Phonics play website and use the username: march20 and password: home to gain access.

Is phonics play linked to Letters and sounds?

PhonicsPlay was designed to be used as a supplementary resource intended to help make the Letters and Sounds programme more manageable and fun to teach. However, from the start, we have also tried to make the site as flexible to use as possible so that teachers can follow different progressions.

Is phonics play free in lockdown?

Phonics Play is a website that offers interactive phonics games and downloadable resources across the ‘Letters and Sounds’ phases. During the Coronavirus situation Phonics Play has been made free for all to access from home without subscription.

What are tricky words Letters and sounds?

Tricky words are typically part of the phonic code. The word ‘want’ has the ‘o’ sound instead of ‘a,’ which is how it’s spelt. This means that children find it difficult to read out the word, as the sounds don’t accompany the letters. Other tricky words include: was, swan, they, my and are.

What are the Phase 2 Tricky words?

Phase 2 tricky words are learned as part of Phase 2 phonics and are taken from the DfE document ‘Letters and Sounds’. They cannot be decoded phonetically, so children are taught to learn them by sight. In phonics, tricky words are words that children will have difficulty sounding out as they are spelled.

What are the Phase 3 phonics sounds?

Phase 3 introduction

• Set 6: j, v, w, x.
• Set 7: y, z, zz, qu.
• Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng.
• Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er.

What is LCP phonics?

LCP Phonics Planning is a planning tool for teachers who are teaching phonics using the Letters and Sounds document from the DfE. It is a guide and should be used with flexibility and at a pace which is appropriate to each group or class.

Is was a tricky word?

For example, in the word ‘was’: the ‘a’ sounds /o/ and the ‘s’ sounds /z/. Beginner readers may find it difficult to decode using the limited phonic knowledge they have learned. So this is a ‘tricky word’.

How do you explain tricky words in phonics?

A ‘tricky’ word is one that cannot be sounded out. They are words that are non-phonetic. If you sound them out and then try to blend the sounds, you will get a word that does not sound right. They are words that must be recognized by sight.

What are tricky words in phonics Phase 2?

Phase 2 Phonics includes 5 Tricky words: the, I, go, no, to, is. Teachers should support kids in practicing these words during school breaks and encourage the children to read and write these words as often as possible. Keep exploring EnglishBix for more quality resources on different phonics phases.

How are letters and sounds introduced in Phase 2?

In Phase 2, letters and their sounds are introduced one at a time. A set of letters is taught each week, in the following sequence: In Set 1, the first four letters are introduced and seven words can be made from them by segmenting and blending. S, a, t, p at , a, sat, pat, tap, sap, as Set 2 introduces four new letters.

How many single letter sounds are there in phonics?

There are forty-four sounds in all. Some of which are made with two letters, but in Phase 2, children focus on learning the 19 most common single letter sounds. ‘These are broken down into smaller sets of about six sounds to make them more achievable for children to learn,’ says Sara.

What is phonics Phonics?

Phonics is a method for teaching the reading and writing of an alphabetic language. Phonics involves matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters. In Phase 2, children begin to learn the sounds that letters make (called phonemes). There are forty-four sounds in all.