Online phonics lessons for Reception and Year 1

If you’re the parent or carer of a Reception or Year 1 child, you may be interested in a new YouTube phonics channel, which launched today, and which is funded by the Department of Education. Every day, new phonics video lessons will be shared for both Reception and for Year 1 children.

From the Letters and Sounds website:

Phonics is a method schools use to teach your child to read the sounds in words. It helps your child to learn to read quickly and skilfully and is an essential part of your child’s early education.

Join in daily Letters and Sounds Phonics lessons on YouTube throughout the summer term. Designed and delivered by experts, our lessons use the Letters and Sounds programme and have been funded by the Department for Education. There are three sets of daily lessons to choose from and we suggest your child starts with one set of lessons most suitable to their year group and reading ability.

You can watch the videos either on the Letters and Sounds website, or on their YouTube channel. We hope you find the videos useful, and, as always, everything you can do to support your child’s learning is much appreciated!

Here is the introduction video for the lessons: