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