Pre- Phonics

Pre- Phonics concentrates on developing children’s speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for the phonic work which starts in Set 1. The emphasis is to get children attuned to the sounds around them and ready to begin developing oral blending and segmenting skills.

Pre- Phonics is divided into seven aspects. Each aspect contains three strands: tuning in to sounds (auditory discrimination), listening and remembering sounds (auditory memory and sequencing) and talking about sounds (developing vocabulary and language comprehension).

While there is considerable overlap between these aspects, the overarching aim is for children to experience regular, planned opportunities to listen carefully and talk extensively

about what they hear, see and do. The boundaries between each strand are flexible and

not fixed: practitioners should plan to integrate the activities according to the developing

abilities and interests of the children in the setting.

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