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.
There are 6 stages or phases to children’s phonic development:
PHASE ONE | There is a strong emphasis on listening skills and oral blending and segmenting in this Phase which underpins the learning in the all other phases. |
PHASE TWO | 19 letters of the alphabet introduced. There is one sound for each letter/grapheme. |
PHASE THREE | The remaining 7 letters of the alphabet are taught and we start to introduce digraphs for other phonemes. E.g. th |
PHASE FOUR | This phase consists of teaching blending and segmenting adjacent consonants. |
PHASE FIVE | More graphemes are taught to represent sounds. Sounds are represented by more than one grapheme. |
PHASE SIX | This phase includes revision of phases two to five. (GPC’s - grapheme-phoneme correspondence) There is a focus on spelling with simple prefixes and suffixes, adding endings and doubling/dropping of final letters. Finally, homophones are introduced. E.g. road & rode |