Stage 1
Song of Sounds Stage 1 is aimed at FS2 Reception aged children. It covers Letters and Sounds Phases 2, 3 and 4. Stage 1 provides a full teaching programme for the reception year including...
- The first 42 GPC’s (grapheme-phoneme correspondences)
- a-z
- ng sh ch th
- ay ee igh ow
- oo (moon) oo (book)
- ar or er
- ou oy air
- Learning to read and spell a range of common exception words
- Reading and spelling CVC, CVCC and CCVC, CCVCC, CCCVC and CCCVCC words
- Reading and spelling multi-syllabic words
- Alphabetical order
- Letter names
- Upper case and lower case letters
- Rigorous assessment points throughout the programme which help identify the pace of the programme and any intervention or support needed for individual pupils