A program of synthetic phonics teaching is used at Brook Field. We use the Monster Phonics Scheme, to develop and enhance the children’s phonetic awareness across Key Stage One. Furthermore, all opportunities are taken to use a rich bank of resources, in order to make the learning as meaningful and memorable as possible.
There are 6 stages or phases to children’s phonic development:
PHASE ONE | underpins all other phases strong emphasis on listening skills and oral blending and segmenting |
PHASE TWO | 19 letters of the alphabet introduced. One sound for each |
PHASE THREE | remaining 7 letters of the alphabet start to introduce digraphs for other phonemes |
PHASE FOUR | blending and segmenting adjacent consonants |
PHASE FIVE | more graphemes to represents sounds. sounds represented by more than one grapheme. |
PHASE SIX | revision of phases two to five (GPC’s - grapheme-phoneme correspondence) spelling with simple prefixes and suffixes adding endings and doubling/dropping of final letters homophones |