What are phonics sounds?

Phonics involves matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters. For example, the sound k can be spelled as c, k, ck or ch. Teaching children to blend the sounds of letters together helps them decode unfamiliar or unknown words by sounding them out.

What are the tricky words?

Tricky words cannot be sounded out easily. They are common words that have complex spellings in them. Emergent readers may find tricky words difficult to read as they have not yet learned some of the graphemes in those words. They are sometimes known as irregular words, common exception words or sight words.

What are jolly phonics tricky words?

‘Tricky words’ are sometimes called ‘key words’ or ‘phonically irregular high-frequency words’. They are now also called ‘common exception words’. They used to be called ‘sight words’ but this term is no longer used in synthetic phonics.

How do I make tricky words fun?

Play memory games such as Snap, Concentration, Bingo or Go Fish with tricky words on cards. Hangman is a particularly effective game for letter sequence recall in tricky words. Double print our tricky word cards: Playing with Sounds words or Letters and Sounds words.

What kind of song is a Phonics Song?

It’s a phonics song with a picture for each letter. This is designed to help children learn the sounds of the letters in the English alphabet.

How does phonics help children learn to read and write?

Phonics helps children learn to read and write by teaching them the letter sounds (known as phonemes), rather than letter names, for example, the sound that ‘c’ makes, not the alphabetic name. There are 42 sounds in the English language that can be heard in words.

How does the song of sounds help children?

The song teaches the children the letter sounds and how to read and write them. The tune, colourful pictures and actions for each letter sound all help the children to learn quickly. The 26 letters of the alphabet are covered first, followed by two- and three-letter sounds e.g. sh, air.

What are the resources in song of sounds?

Resources The Song of Sounds carry case is a one-stop shop for all your phonic needs, and each stage contains a plethora of exciting resources to use with your class. The Teacher Handbook details how to use the resources within each daily and weekly session, but there are endless ways you can use the resources to enhance your phonics provision.