During Phase 4 no new graphemes are introduced.

The main aim of this Phase is to help consolidate the children’s knowledge in learning to read and spell words with adjacent consonants e.g. trap, string, milk.

As children enter Phase 4 they will already be confident in blending to read and segmenting to spell many CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words such as shut, thin, chat.  *Note* The first two letters in each of these words blend together to make one sound (phoneme) and are therefore counted as one sound which is why they are classed as CVC words.

Learning is focused on the reading and writing of a variety of words, captions and simple sentences using the sounds already learnt in previous phases through the use of games, picture and word cards and other activities which promote the application of knowledge gained so far.

Tricky words(words which cannot yet be decoded) are also taught: said, have, like, so, do, some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what