How We Teach Phonics

 Revisit and Review –

• Practise previously taught letters or graphemes.
• Practise oral blending and segmenting.

Teach –

• Teach new graphemes along with the ditty.
• Teach blending and/or segmenting using the sound.
• Teach one or two CEW words.

Practise –

• Blending and reading words with the new grapheme.
• Segmenting and spelling words with the new grapheme.

Apply – Read or write a caption or sentence using one or more tricky words and words containing the graphemes.

Assess – How successful have the children been when learning a new grapheme.