This Teacher Planner provides daily activities and focuses in detail on the seven aspects of Phase 1 - Phonemic Awareness. These are: environmental sounds, body percussion, rhythm & rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds, oral blending and segmenting.

Aspects 1-6 are introduced throughout the year, with 15 engaging activities included for each Aspect that help build phonics skills. Aspect 7 is presented at the end of the year, as it is crucial for the preparation of early sounding out or decoding skills that are introduced at Phase 2.

Teachers can move in and out of different aspects, building and consolidating learning. Towards the end of Aspects 1-6, children will be ready for Aspect 7 which will involve the modelling of oral segmenting and blending. By the end of Phase 1, children will be familiar with various phonemes, and will be able to identify and manipulate them within words. With this foundation, children starting Phase 2 will be introduced to some of the various graphemes that represent these common sounds.

This Teacher Planner specifically emphasises language development and phoneme awareness so that children are prepared for decoding when they enter Phase 2.

Contains 300+ pages, including numerous photocopiable materials to support key lessons.