In Year 1, we focus on Phase 5. The purpose of this phase is for children to broaden their knowledge of graphemes and phonemes for use in reading and spelling. They will learn new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these and graphemes they already know, where relevant. Some of the alternatives will already have been encountered in the high-frequency words that have been taught. Children become quicker at recognising graphemes of more than one letter in words and at blending the phonemes they represent. When spelling words they will learn to choose the appropriate graphemes to represent phonemes and begin to build word-specific knowledge of the spellings of words.
Reading
Teaching further graphemes for reading
Teaching alternative pronunciations for graphemes
Practising recognition of graphemes in reading words
Teaching and practising reading high-frequency (common) words
Practising reading two-syllable and three-syllable words
Practising reading sentences
Spelling
Teaching alternative spellings for phonemes
Learning to spell and practising high-frequency words
Practising spelling two-syllable and three-syllable words
Practising writing sentences