Hot after the Rose report now comes the manual ‘Letters and Sounds’ outlining a programme of teaching phonics. This programme comes in 6 phases and Steps2learning aims to provide support materials for all phases.
· PHASE 1 The materials currently found in the Pre-school section cover the basic letter recognition skills and the speaking and listening skills - no new materials are planned .
· PHASES 2 and 3 Support materials for the weekly programmes have now being developed. Phase 2 looks at basic letter recognition and the first 100 key words. Phase 3 looks at the most common VC and VVC blends and the most common initial blends.
· PHASES 4 looks at a range of word letter patterns - CVC , CVCC , CCVC and CCVCC words.