What is Phonics?

 

Systematic Synthetic Phonics is the statutory method of teaching Early Reading in the UK. Throughout Reception and Key Stage 1, your child will learn a series of sounds (phonemes) and letters (graphemes) that will enable them to read words.

 

At St Richard's, we use the Monster Phonics scheme.

 

In term 2, we will be recapping the Phase 2 sounds: s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss

and starting to learn Phase 3 sounds: j v w x y z zz qu ch sh th ng oo ar

 

Our sight words (words that cannot be sounded out) for this term are:

I      no     to     go    the