Using Smart Phonics Manual One Reception/Year 1
Consonants
bdfhjklmnpqr stvwxyz a cat Consonants two sounds
c g
cat c city c
Vowels
Smart Phonics integrates reading connections in the brain through teaching: Colour-coded letter-to-sound rules to build the upper reading circuit in the brain. Whole words, meaning and syntax from poetry based shared reading to build the lower reading circuit in the brain. Explicit phonemic awareness instruction through manipulating colour-coded tiles to connect upper and lower reading circuits in the brain.
a e i o u a cat Digraph beginnings
ch sh th wh
Manual Two Year 1/Year 2
Digraph ends
ck ff ll ng ss
USING SMART PHONICS
shell sh
shell ll Blend beginnings
bl fr sl st
br cl cr dr fl gl gr pl pr sc sk sm sn sp sw tr tw
bl blend
Manual Three Year 2/Year 3
Blend beginnings
scr shr spl squ str thr scr scrub
e
Blend endings
Magic
ft ld lk mp nch nd nk nt sk st sp
a_e i_e o_e u_e a e cake
nd blend Vowel Digraphs
The above chart shows the progression of phonemes taught through the three manuals. Letter to sound rules are colour-coded so that students will recognise
ai au aw ay ee ew ie igh oa oi oy ue boat oa
Changeable Vowel Sounds
ea ow ou oo y beach ea ea bread
the common phoneme groupings. By progressing through the system (from yellow consonants to the purple r controlled vowels) students can see a logical pattern emerge and quickly gain confidence in decoding and understanding phonics rules. IV
Controlled Vowel Sounds
ar are air er ir or oor ur star ar