EDU Groove Phonics is designed to support practical, hands-on phonics learning through consistent sound blocks, creative activities, games, worksheets, and early reading materials.

The progression is inspired by popular synthetic phonics schemes such as Jolly Learning, Twinkl, and Letters & Sounds, while using a clean 6-sounds-per-block structure to make resource creation simple and consistent for teachers.

🧩 EDU Groove Sound Blocks in Order

🎵 Pre-Readers Stage (Level 1 & 2 or EYFS 1 & 2) 

Focus on:

• listening skills
• rhyme and rhythm
• sound awareness
• oral blending
• oral segmenting
• environmental sounds
• speaking confidence

 📖 Early Readers Stage (Level 3 or KS1) 

🔤 Block 1 – First Sounds

s, a, t, i, p, n

Children begin learning basic letter–sound correspondence and simple blending and segmenting.

Example words:
sat, sit, pin, nip, tap, pat, pan, tin, sip, tip

🔤 Block 2 – Expanding CVC Words

c, k, e, h, r, m

Children continue blending and segmenting while building confidence with simple CVC words.

Example words:
man, men, rim, ham, neck, sack, pack, hit, pet, ten

🔤 Block 3 – Building Reading Fluency

d, g, o, u, l, f

Children can now read a much wider variety of decodable words and simple captions.

Example words:
dog, log, mud, fun, dug, fog, full, golf, fed, doll

🔤 Block 4 – First Long Vowel Patterns

b, ai, j, oa, ie, ee

Introduction of common vowel digraphs and longer vowel sounds.

Example words:
rain, boat, pie, bee, goat, jeep, tail, coat, feet, road

🔤 Block 5 – Advanced Common Sounds

or, z, w, ng, v, y

Children continue learning common sounds and digraphs while improving reading fluency.

Example words:
ring, wing, van, yell, fork, zoom, yard, song, vest, wave

🔤 Block 6 – Digraphs and Complex Sounds

x, oo, ch, sh, th, qu

Introduction of common consonant digraphs and more complex sound patterns.

Example words:
shop, chin, queen, moon, book, thick, shell, quack, zoom, bath

The “oo” grapheme is taught with both pronunciations:

• long oo (moon)
• short oo (book)

🔤 Block 7 – Extended Vowel Patterns

ou, oi, ue, er, ar, all

Children explore additional vowel patterns and common sound chunks.

Example words:
coin, cloud, blue, farm, ball, star, spoil, burn, shout, wall

 📖 Reading Development

Children begin reading words, captions and simple sentences as soon as they have enough sounds to do so. Consonant blends and adjacent consonants are introduced naturally throughout the progression whenever the required sounds have been taught.

Example captions:

• a cat can sit
• the dog is big
• the goat is in the boat

🎨 How EDU Groove Structures Its Scheme

EDU Groove uses a consistent 6-sounds-per-block structure to simplify:

• worksheet creation
• printable packs
• games
• crafts
• assessments
• classroom organisation

The progression is designed to work flexibly alongside:

• Jolly Learning
• Twinkl
• Letters & Sounds
• custom school phonics schemes

while giving teachers freedom to create engaging, hands-on learning experiences.