St Anne's and Guardian Angels Primary School
Phonics
How Do We Teach Phonics at St Anne's and Guardian Angels School?
We follow the Tower Hamlets Education Partnership (THEP) phonics programme, THEP Phonic Programme: A comprehensive systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme to teach word reading and spelling successfully.
For more information about the programme, what is taught in each year group and support for how to form and sound each letter / grapheme, please see below:
Phonics Workshop with Mrs Batten
Here is our online phonics workshop for this year. This video, lead by Mrs Batten (phonics and spelling lead for SA&GA), contains an overview of the phonics ...
Phonics Lesson taught by Mrs Batten
What is phonics?
Get a definition of phonics and understand the key aspects of learning to read using phonics. Learn more about key terms such as 'phonemes', 'blending' and 'tricky words'.
Phonics Help: Top 10 Tips
Get top tips for developing phonics skills at home, advice on decoding and blending words, and how to make the phonics sounds correctly from phonics expert and creator of the Read Write Inc. Phonics programme Ruth Miskin.
Not sure how to pronounce the sounds? Watch this video...
Learn how to pronounce all 44 phonics sounds, or phonemes, used in the English language with these helpful examples.
A simple guide to blending sounds to read words...
Suzy Ditchburn explains how letter sounds can be blended to read words, and gives tips on how to practise phonics with your child.