Phonics 

In Nursery we focus on developing the important pre-phonics skills that will prepare children for future reading and writing.

These skills include: 

• listening to sounds in the environment (animal noises, traffic sounds, noises around the home)
• exploring musical instruments 
• making sounds with our bodies (repeating claps, clicks, stamps)
• listening to and recognising rhyme in stories, songs and nursery rhymes 
• noticing and repeating alliteration (the sounds that words start with, eg. banana, book, bat)
• making different sounds with our voices 
• noticing and repeating the sounds in words