Level 1 Phonics

Level 1 of Phonics concentrates on developing children's speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for the phonic work which starts in Level 2.

The emphasis during Phase 1 is to get children attuned to the sounds around them and ready to begin developing oral blending and segmenting skills.

Level 1 phonics skills that are developed at this stage include:

• Environmental sounds
• Instrumental sounds
• Body percussion (e.g. clapping and stamping)
• Rhythm and rhyme
• Alliteration
• Voice sounds
• Oral blending and segmenting (e.g. hearing that d-o-g makes ‘dog’)

Level 2 phonics

Level 2 Tricky words

Level 3 Phonics

Level 3 Tricky words

Level 4 Tricky words