Explore our collection of Phase 1 phonics resources, including practical Phase 1 phonics activities, games, PowerPoints, worksheets, continuous provision ideas and assessment materials for Nursery and Reception. Everything is designed to develop children’s listening, speaking and phonological awareness before formal phonics teaching begins.
Our teacher-made resources cover all seven aspects of Phase 1 phonics, including environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body percussion, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds, and oral blending and segmenting. They support the updated 2021 Letters and Sounds progression and complement other systematic synthetic phonics programmes used in schools.
Children develop the foundations for reading by learning to identify, discriminate, blend and segment sounds orally before any letter-sound correspondences are introduced. Once these skills are secure, they are ready to move on to Phase 2 phonics.
Explore Rhyme Town, our award-winning 14-week Phase 1 programme for Nursery and Reception. Built around familiar nursery rhymes, it develops communication, listening, phonological awareness and early language through carefully sequenced PowerPoints, practical activities and engaging learning experiences that prepare children for success in Phase 2.
Phase 1 phonics is the first stage of the updated 2021 Letters and Sounds progression. Rather than introducing letter-sound correspondences, it develops children’s listening skills, speaking skills and phonological awareness through play, talk, music and practical exploration. These foundations are essential before children begin learning grapheme-phoneme correspondences in Phase 2.
Our Phase 1 phonics activities encourage children to explore sounds in meaningful, practical ways. Listening walks, sound matching games, body percussion, rhyming activities, oral blending games, storytelling, singing and continuous provision all help children develop confident speaking and listening skills while making learning active and engaging.
Our collection includes resources covering every aspect of Phase 1 phonics, making it easy to build progression across Nursery and Reception.
Children usually move into Phase 2 phonics once they have developed secure listening skills and phonological awareness. While Phase 1 focuses on hearing, recognising, blending and manipulating sounds in spoken language, Phase 2 introduces grapheme-phoneme correspondences and begins early reading and spelling.
Whether you’re planning whole-class sessions, small-group interventions or continuous provision, you’ll find hundreds of Phase 1 phonics resources designed to save planning time while keeping learning engaging and purposeful. Explore listening games, oral blending activities, sound discrimination resources, rhyme games, PowerPoints and practical classroom ideas that support every stage of early phonics.
Visit our comprehensive Phase 1 phonics guide for teaching advice, progression, planning ideas, classroom tips and a closer look at each of the seven aspects.
Phase 1 phonics is typically taught in Nursery and Reception, although many of the listening and language activities begin before children start school.
The seven aspects are environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body percussion, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds, and oral blending and segmenting.
Yes. Phase 1 is the first stage of the updated 2021 Letters and Sounds progression and develops children’s speaking, listening and phonological awareness before letter-sound correspondences are introduced.
Children usually move on to Phase 2 phonics, where they begin learning grapheme-phoneme correspondences and start blending and segmenting words for reading and spelling.
