Our parents then learned all about letters and sounds introduced in Phases 2, 3, 4 and 5, and had fun practising making the sounds themselves.
They learned why we use letter sounds rather than letter names when we are learning to read and write, and they tried their hand at blending and segmenting, two key skills that our children learn in order to read and write.
Blending is a skill children use to read new words: they look at the sounds in a word, say each sound, then say them faster until they can push the sounds together to say the word.
As children move through the phases of Letters and Sounds, they learn to blend more sounds together and read longer words.