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• skills of segmentation and blending

knowledge of the alphabetic code
Phonics

OHT LR 6.1
2
Phoneme count

• strift
• plank
• chest
• play
• edge
• catch
• great
• caught

OHT LR 6.2
3
Vowel digraphs

• train shout meat first light dew spoil
• late burn door try boy road moon tore
• lay term bear down field stole stairs
• sweet coin hare toe cute mine round born

OHT LR 6.3
4
Steps in progression

• Step Skill in segmentation and blending
  Knowledge of letters
• 1 hearing and discriminating general sounds,
  speech sounds and patterns
• 2 hearing phonemes /s/, /m/, /k/, /t/, /g/, /h/
  in initial position s, m, c, t, g, h
• 3 hearing phonemes /s/, /m/, /k/, /t/, /g/ in
  final position ss, ck, l, n, d, k, sh, ch
• 4 hearing phonemes /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/ in
  medial position a, e, i, o, u
• C V C Consonant-Vowel-Consonant segmenting and
  blending, reading and spelling f, qu, b, r, j,
  p, th, ng
• 5 C(C)V(C)C segmenting and blending, reading
  and spelling v, w, x, y, z
• 6 C V C segmenting and blending, reading and
  spelling ai, ee, ie, oa, oo, or, ar, ir, oi, ou
• 7 C V C segmenting and blending, reading and
  spelling ay, a-e, ea, igh, y, i-e, ow, o-e, oe,
  ew, ue, u-e, oy, ow, er, ur, aw, air, ear, oo

OHT LR 6.4
5
Segmenting Consonant-Vowel-Consonant words

• Phonemes children can hear at How children
  write the word at each stage (in bold type)
  each stage
• sun s
• sun sn
• sun sun

OHT LR 6.5