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There are videos here to teach the sound of each of the letters in set 1.

Set 1: s, a, t, p

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Learning with Luequee is an Educational Channel aimed at children between the ages of 3-5. Mr Luequee is an Early Years Practitioner from the UK who loves to find creative ways of teaching various subjects. Mr. Luequee also loves to give fun tips and tricks for parents to use at home to engage their children with a range of Early Years Subjects.

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Free online games for Phase 2 of the Letters and Sounds phonics programme to help children learn to read, write and spell. Click on a picture or title to play the game: This game would work well on an interactive whiteboard and is great for individual play too.

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Blending to Read | Letters ck, e, u, r | Phonics Phase 2

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Phonics song: Letters and Sounds, Phase 2, Set 1 s, a, t, p

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VC words CVC words Phase 2 phonics set 1 words Letters and Sounds Segment and Blend

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Videos for Phase 2 sounds Junior Infants 

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There are videos here to teach the sound of each of the letters in set 1.

Set 2: i, n, m, d

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Learning with Luequee is an Educational Channel aimed at children between the ages of 3-5. Mr Luequee is an Early Years Practitioner from the UK who loves to find creative ways of teaching various subjects. Mr. Luequee also loves to give fun tips and tricks for parents to use at home to engage their children with a range of Early Years Subjects.

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Phase 2 Set 2 i, n, m, d Teaching Slides

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Phase 2 Set 2 i, n, m, d Teaching Slides

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Phase 2, set 1 and 2 s,a,p,t, m,i,d,n blending

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Phase 2, set 1 and 2 s,a,p,t, m,i,d,n blending

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Phonics | phase 2 | set 2 words | learn to blend | letters and sounds | cvc words s a t p i n m d

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Phonics song : Letters and Sounds, Phase 2, Set 2 i, n, m, d

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Phase 2, set 1 and 2 s,a,p,t, m,i,d,n blending

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Phase 2, set 1 and 2 s,a,p,t, m,i,d,n blending

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Blending to Read | Letters i, n, m, d | Phonics Phase 2

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Phase 2, set 2 story book Tim_and_the_map

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Take a look at our free, printable Phase 1 resources, Phase 1 games, or Phase 1 videos.

Phase 1 of Letters and Sounds concentrates on developing children's speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for the phonic work which starts in Phase 2. The emphasis during Phase 1 is to get children attuned to the sounds around them and ready to begin developing oral blending and segmenting skills.

Phase 1 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).

It is intended that each of the first six aspects should be dipped into, rather than going through them in any order, with a balance of activities. Aspect 7 will usually come later, when children have had plenty of opportunity to develop their sound discrimination skills.

Aspect 1 - General sound discrimination - environmental

The aim of this aspect is to raise children's awareness of the sounds around them and to develop their listening skills. Activities suggested in the guidance include going on a listening walk, drumming on different items outside and comparing the sounds, playing a sounds lotto game and making shakers.

Aspect 2 - General sound discrimination - instrumental sounds

This aspect aims to develop children's awareness of sounds made by various instruments and noise makers. Activities include comparing and matching sound makers, playing instruments alongside a story and making loud and quiet sounds.

Aspect 3 - General sound discrimination - body percussion

The aim of this aspect is to develop children's awareness of sounds and rhythms. Activities include singing songs and action rhymes, listening to music and developing a sounds vocabulary.

Aspect 4 - Rhythm and rhyme

This aspect aims to develop children's appreciation and experiences of rhythm and rhyme in speech. Activities include rhyming stories, rhyming bingo, clapping out the syllables in words and odd one out.

Aspect 5 - Alliteration

The focus is on initial sounds of words, with activities including I-Spy type games and matching objects which begin with the same sound.

Aspect 6 - Voice sounds

The aim is to distinguish between different vocal sounds and to begin oral blending and segmenting. Activities include Metal Mike, where children feed pictures of objects into a toy robot's mouth and the teacher sounds out the name of the object in a robot voice - /c/-/u/-/p/ cup, with the children joining in.

Aspect 7 - Oral blending and segmenting

In this aspect, the main aim is to develop oral blending and segmenting skills.

To practise oral blending, the teacher could say some sounds, such as /c/-/u/-/p/ and see whether the children can pick out a cup from a group of objects. For segmenting practise, the teacher could hold up an object such as a sock and ask the children which sounds they can hear in the word sock.

The activities introduced in Phase 1 are intended to continue throughout the following phases, as lots of practice is needed before children will become confident in their phonic knowledge and skills.

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Take a look at our free, printable Phase 1 resources, Phase 1 games, or Phase 1 videos. Phase 1 of Letters and Sounds concentrates on developing children's speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for the phonic work which starts in Phase 2.

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Aspect 1: General sound discrimination – Environmental

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Aspect 1: General sound discrimination – Environmental

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Parents Guide: 10 Ways to Practise Phase 1 Phonics Environmental Sounds

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Music: Sound Story, Auditory Discrimination Environmental Sounds, Identification Listening Activity!

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Aspect 1: Guess the Environmental Sound 

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Aspect 1: Guess the Environmental Sound 

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Environmental Sound Quiz: Listening Game

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Introduction to Phase 2 Letters and Sounds Junior Infants 

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Introduction to Phase 2 letters and Sounds

This webpage outlines the phase two letters and Sounds

Set 1: s, a, t, p

Set 2: i, n, m, d

Set 3: g, o, c, k

Set 4: ck, e, u, r

Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

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Take a look at our free, printable Phase 2 resources, Phase 2 games, or Phase 2 videos.

In Letters and Sounds Phase 2, letters and their sounds are introduced one at a time. A set of letters is taught each week, in the following sequence:

As soon as each set of letters is introduced, children will be encouraged to use their knowledge of the letter sounds to blend and sound out words. For example, they will learn to blend the sounds s-a-t to make the word sat. They will also start learning to segment words. For example, they might be asked to find the letter sounds that make the word tap from a small selection of magnetic letters.

Phase 2 Set 1 letters and words

In Set 1, the first four letters are introduced:

Seven words can be used for segmenting and blending (high frequency words are shown in italics):

Phase 2 Set 2 letters and words

Set 2 includes four new letters. As each new letter is learnt, children will be able to sound out several new words, as follows:

Phase 2 Set 3 letters and words

Set 3 introduces four new letters, with 28 new decodable words suggested, including four high frequency words shown in italics below:

Phase 2 Set 4 letters and words

Set 4 introduces four new graphemes, with 36 new decodable words suggested. For the first time, some of the suggested words contain two syllables, such as pocket, sunset, etc., which some young children might find too difficult at this stage. Personally, I would leave these out if they cause problems. At this stage, it is more important for children to experience success at sounding out short words. Their ability to decode longer words will improve as their short-term memory develops.

At this point, two "tricky words" (not fully decodable at this stage) are taught: the and to.

ck - kick, sock, sack, dock, pick, sick, pack, ticket, pocket

e - get, pet, ten, net, pen, peg, met, men, neck

u - up, mum, run, mug, cup, sun, tuck, mud, sunset

r - rim, rip, ram, rat, rag, rug, rot, rocket, carrot

Phase 2 Set 5 letters and words

Set 5 introduces seven graphemes (three of which are doubled letters), with 69 new decodable words suggested.

h - had, him, his, hot, hut, hop, hum, hit, hat, has, hack, hug

b - but, big, back, bet, bad, bag, bed, bud, beg, bug, bun, bus, Ben, bat, bit, bucket, beckon, rabbit

f, ff - of, if, off, fit, fin, fun, fig, fog, puff, huff, cuff, fan, fat

l, ll - lap, let, leg, lot, lit, bell, fill, doll, tell, sell, Bill, Nell, dull, laptop

ss - ass, less, hiss, mass, mess, boss, fuss, hiss, pass, kiss, Tess, fusspot

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Take a look at our free, printable Phase 2 resources, Phase 2 games, or Phase 2 videos. In Letters and Sounds Phase 2, letters and their sounds are introduced one at a time.

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Aspect 1: Environmental Sounds The Garden

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Aspect 1: Environmental Sounds The Garden

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Twinkl Go! - Level 1 Phonics: The Garden Environmental Sounds Game

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Aspect 1: Transportation, Animals, Musicals, Home Stuffs, Body and more Sounds for Kids and Babies

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Aspect 1: Transportation, Animals, Musicals, Home Stuffs, Body and more Sounds for Kids and Babies

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Aspect 1: Listening Game | Phase 1 Phonics Listening and Attention Skills

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Aspect 1: Listening Game | Phase 1 Phonics Listening and Attention Skills

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Listening Game | Phase 1 Phonics Listening and Attention Skills

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 Aspect 2: General sound discrimination – Instrumental

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 Aspect 2: General sound discrimination – Instrumental

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Letters and Sounds Phase 1 - Aspect 2: General sound discrimination – Instrumental

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Aspect 2: Instrumental sound discrimination 

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Phase 1 phonics - Instrumental sound discrimination - DAY 2

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Aspect 2: Guess The Instrument Sounds For Kids 

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Aspect 2: Guess The Instrument Sounds For Kids 

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Guess The Musical Instrument Sounds For Kids | 4K

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Aspect 2: Guess the sound" - Musical Instruments Words

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Aspect 2: Guess the sound" - Musical Instruments Words

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Theme "Guess the sound"  (Musical Instruments) - Kids vocabulary  - First Dictionary

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Parent Guides: Phase 1 Phonics Body Percussion

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Aspect 3: General sound discrimination – Body percussion

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Aspect 3: General sound discrimination – Body percussion

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Letters and Sounds Phase 1 - Aspect 3: General sound discrimination – Body percussion

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Aspect 3: Body Percussion - Can't Stop the Feeling`

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Aspect 3: Body Percussion - Can't Stop the Feeling`

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Body Percussion - Can't Stop the Feeling`

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Body Percussion for Kids - Phase 1 Phonics

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Aspect 3: Yes Sir, I can boogie!’ The Fratellis Body percussion

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Aspect 3: Yes Sir, I can boogie!’ The Fratellis Body percussion

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‘Yes Sir, I can boogie!’ The Fratellis          Body percussion

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Aspect 3: Dance Monkey - BODY PERCUSSION

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Aspect 3: Dance Monkey - BODY PERCUSSION

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Laboratori di Musica per Infanzia e Primaria

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Dance Monkey - BODY PERCUSSION per bambini e ragazzi - TONES AND I

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Letters and Sounds Phase 1 - Aspect 4: Rhythm and rhyme

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Rhythm and Rhyme for Kids - Phase 1 Phonics

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Aspect 4: Let's Rhyme! Rhyming Game for Kids

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Aspect 4: Let's Rhyme! Rhyming Game for Kids

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Twinkl Teaching Resources | Education Videos | USA

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Let's Rhyme! Rhyming Game for Kids | Learn to Rhyme | Twinkl

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Does It Rhyme? Learning Rhyming Words for Kids

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Aspect 4: Down In The Jungle! And lots more Nursery Rhymes! 

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Aspect 4: Down In The Jungle! And lots more Nursery Rhymes! 

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Down In The Jungle! And lots more Nursery Rhymes! 75 minutes!

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Short verses including traditional nursery rhymes.

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Use our playlists and downloads to create your own rhymetime fun for little ones. Sing along to favourites like Old MacDonald and get to know some brilliant new rhymes, too.

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BookTrust Home Time rhymes to sing along with

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Listen and sing along to popular rhymes on BookTrust Home Time

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Musical Fruits - Rhythm Syllables Clap-Along

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Clap It Out - Learn Syllables | Songs For Kids | Dance Along | GoNoodle

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Phonics actions and songs set 4 | Letters e u r ck

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123 ABC Alphabet • Learn Letter Set 4  •  Week 4: ck e u r

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