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Party in the jungle: Fun Phonemic awareness song
Party in the jungle: Fun Phonemic awareness song

Children car really develop their listening and oral language skills with this fun
movement song. Everyone can move like different animals and echo the sounds and
words. When we sing the different dances (i.e. Hip hop, hoola, shake) children can
move like a hip hop singer/dancer or move their hips.

Just be creative with the movements.

This song also reinforce awareness and skills in pattering as they match the sound/
word patterns we make.
 Phase 4
- No new graphemes are introduced.
-Segmenting & blending more complex words.
CVCC word = milk
-Spelling most phonetically
-More sight or tricky words are introduced
Specific Skills
How to blend groups of consonants
str- sn- lk
Read contractions I’m
How to read longer words
How to read compound words
lunchbox
Continue to learn tricky more tricky
words: do, so, question words: when,
what.
Step 1: Phase 4 Graphemes

Children entering this phase will be able to represent each of the 42 phonemes
by a grapheme, and be able to bled phonemes to read CVC words and segment
CVC words for spelling.

The purpose of this phase is to consolidate children’s knowledge of graphemes in

reading and spelling words containing adjacent consonants and polysyllabic
words.
Step 2: Phase 4 Digraphs and Trigraphs

Recapping the digraphs and trigraphs

from phase 3
Step 3: Phase 4 Blends and Clusters

Phonics clusters are pairs of letters that when blended together, almost form a
sound of their own. For example, the ‘lf’ in the word shelf blended together
almost sounds like a separate phoneme but is actually made up of the sounds ‘l’
and ‘f’.

During phase 4 phonics, your child will blend these clusters more accurately and
recognise different words that contain them.
Phonics clusters are pairs of letters that when blended together, almost form a
sound of their own.

For example, the ‘lf’ in the word shelf blended together almost sounds like a
separate phoneme but is actually made up of the sounds ‘l’ and ‘f’.
Two words that work together

Children can sing along with this catchy chorus to help them learn blends.
Say the letter sounds clearly.
Charts, visuals of the blends all enhance learning with the song.
Step 4: Phase 4 Blending and Segmenting

Blending is the process of combining letters together to form words. At this

step, your students will probably be focusing on blending words that contain
four or five sounds, e.g. ‘b-l-i-n-k’, ‘s-n-a-ck’ and ‘b-r-ow-n’.

Segmenting is the reverse of blending. In blending, your child combines sounds

together to form words. With segmenting, your child hears a word and
identifies the different sounds that make up that word.
Step 5: Tricky Words

Tricky words are ones that don’t necessarily follow the phonics rules, but
appear often in common sentences.

They contain groups of letters that make unique or different sounds to the
ones your students would expect if they were to use blending or
segmenting.

As these words don’t follow the normal phonics rules, your child will need to
memorise them and learn to read them on sight
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