What phase phonics should YEAR 2 be on?
Phase 6 phonics takes place throughout Year 2, with the aim of children becoming fluent readers and accurate spellers. By Phase 6, children should be able to read hundreds of words using one of three strategies: Reading them automatically.
What are the Phase 2 phonemes?
Phase 2 Phonics Sounds
- Set 1: s, a, t, p.
- Set 2: i, n, m, d.
- Set 3: g, o, c, k.
- Set 4: ck, e, u, r.
- Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss.
What age is phonics 3?
Phase 3 takes most children around 12 weeks. By the end, they should be able to say the sound made by most, or all, Phase 2 and 3 graphemes, blend and read CVC words made from these graphemes, read 12 new tricky words and write letters correctly when given an example to copy.
What is taught in Phase 2 letters and sounds?
Children entering Phase Two will have experienced a wealth of listening activities, including songs, stories and rhymes. The purpose of this phase is to teach at least 19 letters, and move children on from oral blending and segmentation to blending and segmenting with letters.
What is set 2 Phonics?
There are 12 Set 2 ‘speed sounds’ that are made up of two or three letters which represent just one sound, e.g. ay as in play, ee as in tree and igh as in high. It is important that your son/daughter does not pronounce these as 2 or 3 separate sounds.
What happens in Phase 2, letters and sounds?
In time, children will be shown the correct spelling. Remember, the initial focus is on reading; blending separate sounds into words. As children learn all the Sets in Phase 2, they will be able to read an increasing number of words.
How many letters are taught in Phase 2?
In Phase 2 children are taught 19 letters grouped into 5 sets. One set will generally be taught in one week. Children are encouraged to begin ‘blending’ sounds into words straight away. Therefore, having been taught only Set 1, children can make (and read) words like at, sat & pat.
What to teach in Phase 2 of phonics?
As children learn all the Sets in Phase 2, they will be able to read an increasing number of words. The ‘Reading Word List’, in the resources section opposite, sets out the range of words which can be read once each additional Set has been taught. You will notice that ‘double consonants’ (ff / ss / ll) are taught early.
How many words are decodable in phonics Phase 2?
There are 100 common words that recur frequently in much of the written material young children read and that they need when they write. Most of these are decodable, by sounding and blending, assuming the grapheme–phoneme correspondences are known, but only 26 of the high-frequency words are decodable by the end of Phase Two.