Letters and Sounds 1

Letters and Sounds: Phase Two
What’s in the box?
Resources
Letters and Sounds: Principles and Practice of High Quality Phonics
Primary National Strategy
Practising blending for reading
■ Set of word cards (e.g. words containing sets 1 and 2 letters – see ‘Bank of
suggested words for practising reading and spelling’ on page 69)
■ Set of objects or pictures corresponding to the word cards, hidden in a box
■ Soft toy (optional)
Procedure
1. Display a word card (e.g. map).
2. Go through the letter recognition and blending process appropriate to the
children’s development (see ‘Teaching blending for reading’ on page 58).
3. Ask the toy or a child to find the object or picture in the box.
Variation 1 (to additionally develop vocabulary)
1. Attach some pictures to the whiteboard using reusable sticky pads or magnets
or display some objects.
2. Display a word card.
3. Go through the letter recognition and blending process appropriate to the
children’s development.
4. Ask a child to place the word card next to the corresponding picture or object.
Variation 2 (when the children are becoming confident blenders)
1. The children sit in two lines opposite one another.
2. Give the children in one line an object or picture and the children in the other line
a word card.
3. The children with the word cards read their words and the children with objects
or pictures sound-talk the name of their object or picture to the child sitting next
to them.
4. Ask the children to hold up their words and objects or pictures so the children
sitting in the line opposite can see them.
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