Wikijunior talk:Early phonics readers

Letters and Sounds
Letters and Sounds is a systematic approach for teaching children to read using phonics. It is used in many schools in England

Phase 1
Phase 1 supports children’s (age 3-4) developing skills to link sounds and letters. Activities are divided into seven groups:


 * Environmental sounds.
 * Instrumental sounds.
 * Body percussion.
 * Rhythm and rhyme.
 * Alliteration.
 * Voice sounds.
 * Oral blending and segmenting.

The focus of this phase is on repeating sounds, rather than reading words.

Phase 3
Phase 3 is the third in an educational approach developed in the UK. 25 new graphemes are taught at Phase 3. These are introduced one at a time in the following order: j, v, w, x, y, z (including zz), qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er.


 * https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7aa7b6e5274a34770e630c/Letters_and_Sounds_-_DFES-00281-2007.pdf
 * https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/what-is-letters-and-sounds/
 * https://primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com/intack-primary-school/UploadedDocument/d9d5af84-d2aa-4ee0-9fdc-9c20f26f5a66/phase-3-grapheme-chart.pdf

Digraphs are two letters which work together to make one sound and trigraphs are three letters which make one sound. Jerimee (discuss • contribs) 18:10, 16 March 2024 (UTC)