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Supporting Phonics Learning!

Phonics learning starts with learning nursery rhymes and songs. We always start our day with our Hello song - Mr Tumble's Hello Song.  

In the nursery year, the children will learn lots of nursery rhymes.  We will send home a paper copy of our nursery rhyme of the week home, and we will also put the link on our nursery blog so you know which one we will be learning.  Here is the link to the nursery rhymes we use below from the BBC.  BBC Nursery Rhymes and Songs

 

Phase 1 Phonics 

Phase One Phonics concentrates on developing children's speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for the phonic work which starts in Basics 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.

Phase 1 is divided into seven aspects.

 

Each aspect contains three strands:

  • Tuning in to sounds (auditory discrimination),
  •  Listening and remembering sounds (auditory memory and sequencing)
  • Talking about sounds (developing vocabulary and language comprehension).


Here are the 7 aspects:

Autumn Term

1. Environmental sounds

2. Instrumental sounds

3. Body percussion (e.g. clapping and stamping)

Spring Term

4. Rhythm and Rhyme

5. Alliteration - initial sounds

Summer Term

6. Voice sounds.

7. Oral blending and segmenting (e.g. hearing that d-o-g makes 'dog')

Basic 2 Supersonic Phonic Friends

We use this phonics programme in school.  
SuperSonic Phonics Friends 

https://www.supersonicphonicfriends.co.uk

 

Here are the beginnings of some links to support your child's phonics learning. 
Phase 1 Phonics - Phonics Play

 

Mr Tumble's Hello Song
We will be singing this each morning. Please note: This website is from You tube so some of the adverts/links may not be appropriate, down the side of the video.