Phonics in Nursery

In Nursery, we focus on Phase 1. Phase One activities are arranged under the following seven aspects.

1.Environmental sounds

2. Instrumental sounds

3. General sound discrimination – body percussion

4. Rhythm and rhyme

5. Alliteration

6. Voice sounds

7. Oral blending and segmenting

Activities within the seven aspects are designed to help children:

• listen attentively

• enlarge their vocabulary

• speak confidently to adults and other children

• discriminate phonemes

• reproduce audibly the phonemes they hear, in order, all through the word

• use sound-talk to segment words into phonemes