Stage 3

Song of Sounds Stage 3 is aimed Year 2 children. It covers Letters and Sounds Phase  6 with some revision of the earlier stages. Stage 3 provides a full teaching programme for year 2  including...

• Alternative graphemes to represent phonemes
  • ey y ie (making the /ee/ sound)
  • s se ce (making the /s/ sound)
  • ge dge g (making the /j/ sound)
  • kn gn nn (making the /n/ sound)
  • le el al (making the /l/ sound)
  • a ar ore (making the /or/ sound)
  • s ti ci (making the /sh/ sound)
  • wr (r) wh (w) ph (f)
  • o (u) a (o) or (er)
• Learning to read and spell a range of common exception words
• Reading and spelling multi-syllabic words
• Adding es
• Adding suffixes ed ing er est
• Adding suffixes ment ness less ly
• Contractions
• Homophones and near homophones
• Differentiated spelling homework to match each teaching point
• Rigorous assessment points throughout the programme which help identify the pace of the programme and any intervention or support needed for individual pupils