Learn and practice the ay sound! Help the wizards to make ay words in this fun Phonics guide from BBC Bitesize.

"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long ...

Once children can hear the differences between sounds, phonics comes next, offering explicit instruction in the connections between letters, letter combinations and sounds.

The phonics check is based on this approach, and includes 20 so-called pseudo or non-words such as "flisp" to check that students really know their letter-sound combinations, and don't just ...

Phonics instruction gives children letter-sound knowledge, a skill that is essential for them to read unfamiliar words by themselves.