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An overview of ‘Letters and Sounds - Phase 1’

“Phase One activities are arranged under the following seven aspects.

• Aspect 1: General sound discrimination – environmental sounds

• Aspect 2: General sound discrimination – instrumental sounds

• Aspect 3: General sound discrimination – body percussion

• Aspect 4: Rhythm and rhyme

• Aspect 5: Alliteration

• Aspect 6: Voice sounds

• Aspect 7: Oral blending and segmenting

While there is considerable overlap between these aspects, the overarching aim is for children to experience regular, planned opportunities to listen carefully and talk extensively about what they hear, see and do. The boundaries between each strand are flexible and not fixed: practitioners should plan to integrate the activities according to the developing abilities and interests of the children in the setting. Each aspect is divided into three strands.

• Tuning into sounds (auditory discrimination)

• Listening and remembering sounds (auditory memory and sequencing)

• Talking about sounds (developing vocabulary and language comprehension).

Activities within the seven aspects are designed to help children:

1. listen attentively;

2. enlarge their vocabulary;

3. speak confidently to adults and other children;

4. discriminate phonemes;

5. reproduce audibly the phonemes they hear, in order, all through the word;

6. use sound-talk to segment words into phonemes.

The ways in which practitioners and teachers interact and talk with children are critical to developing children’s speaking and listening. This needs to be kept in mind throughout all phase one activities.”

Letters and Sounds: Principles and Practice of High Quality Phonics

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