Scheme of work for Phonics 2024-2025
Letters Approximate Phonics teaching RULE BREAKERS
and Stage/age
Sounds
EYFS
Nursery Supports the importance of speaking and listening and
throughout develops children’s discrimination of sounds, including
Phase 1 the year letter sounds.
Activities are divided into seven aspects, including
Reception environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body
Beginning of sounds, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and
Autumn 1 finally orally blending and segmenting.
Children to be taught the phase 2 phonemes in the the, to, I, no, go
following order alongside the written grapheme.
Set 1 – s, a, t, p
Reception Set 2 – i, n, m, d
Phase 2 Autumn 1 & 2 Set 3 – g, o, c, k
Set 4 – ck, e, u, r
Set 5 – h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss, o
Children to be taught to orally blend and segment cvc
words using the phase 2 phonemes.
Set 6 – j,v,w,x he, she, we, me, be, was,
Reception Set 7 – y,z,zz,qu (last of Letters and Sounds ‘sets’) my, you, they, her, all, are
Phase 3 Spring term sh, th, ch, ng, ai, ee, long oo, short oo
Phase 3 Reception oa, ar, or, igh, ur, ow, oi, ear, er, air, ure said, so, have, like, some,
Summer term Completes the teaching of the alphabet and moves on to come, were, there, little,
sounds represented by more than one letter. The children one, do, when, out, what
will learn letter names and how to read and spell some
tricky words.
Year 1
Phase 3 Year 1 Children to revise and recall phase 2 and 3 phonemes. Recap all phase 2 and 3
Autumn 1 Children to read and write ccvc and cvcc words. rule breakers
The children learn to read and spell words containing Recap all phase 2 and 3
Phase 4 Year 1 adjacent consonants. rule breakers and introduce
Autumn 2 Children continue to revise and recall phase 2 and 3 new rule breakers when
phonemes. children are ready.
The children broaden their knowledge of sounds for use in
Year 1 reading and spelling. They will begin to build words – Oh, their, people, Mr, Mrs,
Phase 5 Spring term specific knowledge of the spelling of words. looked, called, asked
Sounds – ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue
The children broaden their knowledge of sounds for use in Revise all learned rule
Year 1 reading and spelling. They will begin to build words – breakers
Phase 5 Summer term specific knowledge of the spelling of words. Reading and writing all rule
breakers
Sounds – aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, a_e, i_e, u_e, o_e
Year 2
Phase 6 Year 2 Teaching spelling:
Throughout • Introducing and teaching the past tense
Year 2 and • Investigating and learning how to add suffixes
beyond • Teaching spelling long words
• Finding and learning the difficult parts in words
Learning and practising spellings
Application of spelling in writing
Knowledge of the spelling system