Letters and Sounds

Phase Three

Child using letter cubesDevelops children's knowledge of grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPC), their skills of blending and segmenting with letters and recognition of high frequency words containing GPCs not taught at that phase.

Duration: up to 12 weeks. Develops children's knowledge of the seven remaining letters of the alphabet and graphemes to cover most of the phonemes represented by more than one letter. Teaches and practises the skills of blending and segmenting sounds represented by single letters and graphemes of more than one letter.

Resources

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Adobe acrobat document Phase Three | 980Kb

Articulation of phonemes – vowels and consonants

Practising blending for reading and segmentation for spelling

Practising grapheme recognition

Practising reading simple captions

Practising the alphabet

Practising tricky words

Teaching grapheme–phoneme correspondence and practising oral blending