EYFS Phonics Phase 4

Reception Summer Term – Phase 4

When children start Phase Four of the Letters and Sounds phonics programme, they will know a grapheme for each of the 42 phonemes. They will be able to blend phonemes to read CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words and segment in order to spell them.

Children will also have begun reading straightforward two-syllable words and simple captions, as well as reading and spelling some tricky words.

In Phase 4, no new graphemes are introduced. The main aim of this phase is to consolidate the children's knowledge and to help them learn to read and spell words which have adjacent consonants, such as trap, string and milk, tent, next, lunch and train.

Words that are referred to as Tricky words are also taught: said, have, like, so, do, some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out and what.

These are not decodable and children have to remember how to read and spell them.