Here is a phonics glossary for parents, as it is a really useful guide to assist with the definitions of the terms we will use in phonics. In school we use these words with the children each day within their phonics learning

The phonics ‘sound mats’ used in school can be found below for each phonics phase.

Blending is used to build the words for Reading and Segmenting is used to break the words down to help children to spell. We build and blend to read words and use our Phonics Fingers to segment for spelling.

Phase 5: Phoneme Grid