Literacy Hub phonics progression
The Literacy Hub phonics progression provides teachers with an order for teaching the sounds and letters of English, moving from simple to complex code, and from common to less common sounds and spellings across Foundation to Year 2.
Update May 2026
Some minor amendments were made to the progression in May 2026 to align with the Literacy Hub’s phonics and morphology lesson packs. It’s important to note that the amendments in this version are minor, and you can continue to use the previous version.
- Each phase is matched to a level in the general capabilities in the Australian Curriculum, to show the expected achievement for students for this phase. Year levels were removed to allow for more flexible responsiveness to student data.
- Column headings have been adjusted to 'Content' and 'Skills' to include more content types.
- Phase 22: a more precise meaning of the prefix mis- is included.
- Phase 23: the irregular word ‘field’ was removed.
- Phase 23: ‘s/si’ content was removed.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Foundation, Year 1, Year 2
- Purpose
- Planning, Teaching resource
- Topic
- Systematic Synthetic Phonics
- Audience
- Teachers, School leaders
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Learning area
- English
- Australian Curriculum code
- General capabilities
- Literacy
- Publisher
Literacy Hub
- Copyright
© Commonwealth of Australia
- Keywords
- phonemes, phonemic awareness, speech sounds
- File type
- File size
- 0.4 MB
