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- office@greenhill.wakefield.sch.uk
- Wakefield Greenhill Primary School, Greenhill Road, Eastmoor, Wakefield, WF1 4LU
Wakefield Greenhill Primary School
Enjoying, Progressing, Achieving
Phonics is a fun and child centred approach to teaching literacy. With actions for each of the letter sounds, the multi-sensory method is very motivating for children and teachers, who can see their students achieve. The letter sounds are split into groups as shown below. In nursery the children will only be taught the Phase 2 sounds.
This is an example of the children taking part in a Phase 1 activity called 'Drum Outdoors'.
In Phase 2, letters and their sounds are introduced one at a time. A set of letters are taught each week (as above). As soon as each set of letters is introduced, children will be encouraged to use their knowledge of the letter sounds to blend and sound out words. For example, They will learn to blend the sounds s-a-t to make the word sat. They will also start learning to segment words. For example, they might be asked to find the letter sounds that make the word tap from a small selection of magnetic letters.
Here the children are taking part in a Phase 2 activity, writing a 'k' on a kite template.
The children are rewarded with stickers!
In the Phase 2 game 'Buried treasure' the children have to dig in the sand to find a coin with a word on. We then try to sound out the word and if contains the letter we have been learning about that day, it goes to to the pirate. If it doesn't then it goes in the bin.