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Read instructions aloud. Word-reading practice must match the child's taught sounds. The phonics pages support, but do not replace, the school's systematic synthetic phonics programme. Shared stories are adult-read unless the child can decode them. Re-read and practise daily.

These are short sessions to revisit, not a one-day course. Follow the child's readiness and school teaching.

The lessons cover the Year 1 spelling patterns and example exception words, word reading, comprehension, spoken language, composition, grammar, punctuation and handwriting expectations. They support, but do not replace, a school's validated systematic synthetic phonics programme, its exact sound order, adult sound modelling, closely matched decodable books or a wide whole-book story, poetry and non-fiction library. Shared stories here are adult-read; never ask children to guess untaught words from pictures.

These are our reference keys, not official DfE numbering. Each link identifies a teaching introduction, not a completed curriculum requirement or assessed mastery.

Connect taught sounds and spellings for decoding.

E-WR1

• Letters have names and sounds
• Meet the vowel letters
• Push the sounds together
• Two letters, one sound
• The sound in rain and day
• The sound in see and sea
• Three letters can work together
• Read boat and snow
• Look: two oo sounds
• Listen to car and fork
• Different letters, a familiar sound
• The sound in out and cow
• Join the sound in coin and toy
• Sound teams in ear and hair
• Spot a spelling pattern
• Read make and cake
• Read these and theme
• Read time and ride
• Read home and hope
• Read cube and flute
• Read bread and head
• Listen to the ending in summer
• Read toe and goes
• Read blue and rescue
• Read new and grew
• Read pie and tie
• Read field and chief
• Read more and shore
• Read saw and pause
• Read bear and pear
• Read care and share
• Listen to y in happy
• Two letters: ph
• Read when and which
• Choose k in kit and sky
• Listen to bank and sink
• Three letters at the end: tch
• The ending in have and give
• Put the alphabet in order

Segment spoken words into sounds for spelling.

E-SP1

• Letters have names and sounds
• Meet the vowel letters
• Pull a word into sounds
• Two letters, one sound

Blend and reread words matched to taught sound-spelling knowledge.

E-WR2

• Push the sounds together
• Read make and cake
• Read these and theme
• Read time and ride
• Read home and hope
• Read cube and flute
• Read bread and head
• Listen to the ending in summer
• Read toe and goes
• Read blue and rescue
• Read new and grew
• Read pie and tie
• Read field and chief
• Read more and shore
• Read saw and pause
• Read bear and pear
• Read care and share
• Listen to y in happy
• Two letters: ph
• Read when and which
• Choose k in kit and sky
• Listen to bank and sink
• Three letters at the end: tch
• The ending in have and give
• Stop, check and read it again

Name letters and practise short dictated sentences.

E-SP4

• Pull a word into sounds
• Read it back and make it clear
• Put the alphabet in order

Practise Year 1 spelling patterns, prefixes and endings.

E-SP2

• The sound in rain and day
• The sound in see and sea
• Three letters can work together
• Read boat and snow
• Look: two oo sounds
• Listen to car and fork
• Different letters, a familiar sound
• The sound in out and cow
• Join the sound in coin and toy
• Sound teams in ear and hair
• Spot a spelling pattern
• One cat, two cats
• Add an ending
• What does un- do?
• Read make and cake
• Read these and theme
• Read time and ride
• Read home and hope
• Read cube and flute
• Read bread and head
• Listen to the ending in summer
• Read toe and goes
• Read blue and rescue
• Read new and grew
• Read pie and tie
• Read field and chief
• Read more and shore
• Read saw and pause
• Read bear and pear
• Read care and share
• Listen to y in happy
• Two letters: ph
• Read when and which
• Choose k in kit and sky
• Listen to bank and sink
• Three letters at the end: tch
• The ending in have and give
• Two words make a new word

Read common exception words, noticing unusual spellings.

E-WR3

• Look closely at common words
• Look closely: the, a and do
• Look closely: were, was and is
• Look closely: be, he and me
• Look closely: my, here and there
• Look closely: ask, friend and school

Spell common exception words and the days of the week.

E-SP3

• Look closely at common words
• Write the days
• Look closely: the, a and do
• Look closely: were, was and is
• Look closely: be, he and me
• Look closely: my, here and there
• Look closely: ask, friend and school

Read longer words and familiar word endings.

E-WR4

• Read a longer word in parts
• One cat, two cats
• Add an ending
• Two words make a new word

Read shortened forms and understand their apostrophes.

E-WR5

• Two words become one

Use capitals for names, days and I.

E-G2

• Write the days
• Capitals for names and I

Explain vocabulary, find information, infer and predict with evidence.

E-RC2

• Find an answer in the story
• What happened first?
• How might a character feel?
• What might happen next?
• Stories and information
• Retell a familiar tale
• Use the title and your own experience
• Stop, check and read it again
• Explain an idea and listen to another

Enjoy, discuss and retell stories, poems and non-fiction read aloud.

E-RC1

• What happened first?
• Talk about a new word
• Join in a little poem
• Stories and information
• Retell a familiar tale
• Join in with the repeated words
• Use the title and your own experience
• Learn a little poem by heart

Listen, take turns, ask questions and explain ideas aloud.

E-SL

• What happened first?
• How might a character feel?
• What might happen next?
• Talk about a new word
• Join in a little poem
• Take a turn to talk
• Say it before you write it
• Ask it or say it with feeling
• Retell a familiar tale
• Join in with the repeated words
• Use the title and your own experience
• Explain an idea and listen to another
• Learn a little poem by heart
• Read your writing aloud and discuss it

Say sentences before writing and sequence a short narrative.

E-WC1

• Say it before you write it
• Join ideas with and
• Write a tiny story

Use spaces, capitals and sentence-ending punctuation.

E-G1

• Give a sentence a beginning and end
• Ask it or say it with feeling

Reread, discuss, improve and read writing aloud.

E-WC2

• Give a sentence a beginning and end
• Write a tiny story
• Read it back and make it clear
• Read your writing aloud and discuss it

Join words and clauses using and.

E-G3

• Join ideas with and

Practise comfortable pencil use and correct letter and digit formation.

E-HW

• Make letters carefully
• Practise letters in families