Coppice Farm Primary School

PHONICS

Phonics Lead: Mrs T Miller

At coppice Farm Primary School we teach daily phonics sessions using a systematic synthetic phonics scheme called Monster Phonics. We know phonics is at the heart of how children learn to read and pride ourselves on ensuring early reading skills are embedded right from the start of your child's first year at school. Once children know the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they stand for, they’re ready to use those building blocks to read words and simple sentences. Building strong phonics skills in the early years of school is the key to your child becoming a fluent, strong, independent reader.

What is Monster Phonics?

The 26 letters of the alphabet and combinations of these letters make 44 speech sounds in English.  The 44 sounds (phonemes) are spelt by 144 different letter combinations (graphemes). For example, the sound A is spelt several different ways, including ay (play) and ai (train). 

Traditional ways of learning to spell can be time-consuming and for some children they are ineffective. Monster Phonics teaches children to read by enabling them to identify the individual graphemes (letter combinations) ad blend the sounds (phonemes) together to read the word.

To support this process, Monster Phonics uses the 10 monsters to categorises all sounds into 10 simple areas. Furthermore, each monster has a different colour and that colour represents that way of spelling the sound.

Find out more about how Monster Phonics works

Visit https://monsterphonics.com/how-it-works/

Phonics Activities For Home Learning

Please find below some fun phonics activities. They are listed in year groups and will help to reinforce the work your child has been learning in class....Enjoy!!