During the year your child will learn one grapheme (letter or groups of letters) to represent each of the 44 sounds in English. They will learn to read and spell words containing these graphemes, as well as some common words containing ‘tricky’ bits. The section below outlines the learning in each term, but please remember that some children will progress through the programme at a faster rate and others more slowly, so this is just a guide.

Children will be taught…

Autumn Term:

• how to listen to a sequence of 2/3 sounds and put them together to make a word.
• how to break a word down into 2/3 small sounds.
• the sounds represented by the single letters of the alphabet and ‘qu’.
• the sounds represented by these graphemes: ck, ll, ss, ff, zz.
• how to read and spell words with 2/3 sounds containing the graphemes listed above eg hill, cat, duck.
• how to read these tricky words: to, the, no, go, I, he we.
• how to spell these tricky words: the, to.
• to begin to read words ending in ‘s’ eg cats.
• to begin to read words with more than one syllable.

Spring Term:

• the sounds represented by these graphemes: ai (in rain), ee (in see), igh (in night), oa (in coat), oo (in moon), oo (in book), ar (in car), or (in fork), ur (in hurt), ow (in cow), oi (in coin), ear (in hear), air (in chair), er (in longer).
• how to read and spell words with 2/3 sounds containing the single letters and graphemes listed above.
• how to read these tricky words: she, me, be, was, my, you, they, her, all, are.
• how to spell these tricky words: I, no, go.
• how to read words ending in ‘s’ and ‘es’ eg coins, foxes.
• the names of the letters.

Summer Term:

• the sound represented by ‘ve’  (in have, live).
• how to read and spell words with 4/5 sounds containing the single letters and graphemes listed above eg frown, string.
• how to read these tricky words: said, so, have, like, some, come, were, there, little, one, do, when, out, what.
• how to spell these tricky words: he, she, we, me, be, was, you, they, all, are, my, her.
• how to read words ending in ‘est’ & ‘ed eg softest, jumped.
• how to read contractions ending in n’t, ‘ve, ‘ll (in didn’t, we’ve, I’ll)