Darran Park Primary School
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Phonics Home (Letters & Sounds)
Letters and Sounds is the resource we use at Darran Park to support the systematic teaching of phonics. Children begin the Letters and Sounds programme at the start of Nursery year and continue across the Foundation Phase.  Every child between Reception and Year 2 has a 15-20 minute phonics session every day. Floppy's phonics resources are used to supplement Letters and Sounds
The Letters and Sounds programme is separated into six Phases - your child's teacher will be able to tell you which Phase your child is currently working on.
Below, you will find links to our pages for each Phase. For each Phase there is a brief explanation of what is taught and a selection of resources (word cards, games & record sheets) which you can use to support your child's learning.
If you require any further support, please come into school and speak with your child's class teacher or Mrs Jones.
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Click on the Phase you wish to visit to view our useful selection of resources.

Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3

Phase 4
Phase 5
Phase 6

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Hear each letter sound

We are often asked how each letter (or pair of letters) is pronounced. 
Listen to the sound

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Oxford Owl

The Oxford Owl website has some excellent information for parents. There are a couple of useful videos as well as a really helpful player that allows you to hear each letter sound. Click on the icon to visit the site.
Visit Oxford Owl

Phonics Glossary

We hope the following glossary is useful to you when using our Letters and Sounds pages. Always feel free to come in and talk to us if you require any further support.
 blending
Blending is the skill of joining sounds together to read words. Children are taught to say the separate sounds in a word and to then blend them together to decode the word.
 digraph
 A digraph is a sound that is represented by two letters e.g. the sound 'a' in rain is represented by the digraph 'ai'.
grapheme
A grapheme is a visual representation of a sound e.g. a letter or a group of letters.
Some sounds are represented by a single letter whilst others are represented by more than one letter.
phoneme
 A phoneme is a unit of sound e.g. the word 'cat' contains three phonemes; c - a - t.
 segmenting
 Segmenting is the opposite of blending. Children are taught to segment a word into its separate sounds in order to spell it.
 split digraph
 A split digraph is a digraph that is separated by other letters e.g. the sound 'a' in the word take is represented by the split digraph a-e.
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