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Split digraphs revision football worksheet

Split digraphs revision (Phase 5 phonics)

A fun, teacher-created resource that helps children understand what a split digraph word is, which is often taught in Phase 5 phonics at primary school.
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Y1 phonics screening check 2014 past paper

Year 1 Phonics screening check 2014

The Y1 Phonics Screening Check tests children's knowledge of phonics with a mixture of real and nonsense words. Look through the official past paper for 2014 to see what sort of words your child will be asked to read.
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Reading unfamiliar words using phonics worksheet

Reading unfamiliar words using phonics

A KS1 worksheet of nonsense words, based on the National Curriculum and created by a phonics expert to get Year 1 children using their phonics skills to decode unfamiliar words.

These robots have such funny names! Can you read them?
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First 100 high-frequency words

First 100 high-frequency words list

Children learn to read and spell high-frequency words, the most common words in English-language texts, throughout primary school. Download a list of the first 100 high-frequency words to use for at-home spelling practice and revision.
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Writing the /e/ sound: ‘ea’

Writing the /e/ sound: ‘ea’ (Phase 5 phonics)

Use this worksheet to help your child recognise the grapheme 'ea', representing the /e/ sound, and then use those words in the sentences provided.
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Spelling patterns: ‘wa’ or ‘qua’ words worksheet

Spelling patterns: ‘wa’ or ‘qua’ words

When the graphemes ‘w’ or ‘qu’ are followed by the single vowel ‘a’, it usually represents the /o/ sound as in swan. For each of these words, add an ‘a’ to complete the word. Say the
word out loud. Can you hear how the ‘a’ makes an /o/ sound? Then have a go at the wordsearch.
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Spelling patterns: ‘or’ representing the /er/ sound worksheet

Spelling patterns: ‘or’ representing the /er/ sound

The letter ‘w’ followed by the ‘or’ grapheme makes the /er/ sound as in worm. Can you work out where these words should go in these sentences?
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Phase 3 phonics sound snap: the /ure/, /ur/ and /er/ blends

Phase 3 phonics sound snap: the /ure/, /ur/ and /er/ blends

Let's play a game of snap! Listen out for the /ure/, /ur/ and /er/ blends.
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Phase 3 phonics sound snap: the /igh/, /air/, /ear/ and /ure/ blends

Phase 3 phonics sound snap: the /igh/, /air/, /ear/ and /ure/ blends

Let's play a game of sound snap. Listen out for the /igh/, /air/, /ear/ and /ure/ blends!
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Phase 3 phonics sound snap: the /ar/, /or/ and /ur/ blends

Phase 3 phonics sound snap: the /ar/, /or/ and /ur/ blends

Let's play a game of sound snap! Listen out for the /ar/, /or/ and /ur/ blends.
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Decoding puzzle: words containing ‘o’ sounding like /u/

Decoding puzzle: words containing ‘o’ sounding like /u/

This list of words include an ‘o’, pronounced as the short vowel sound /u/. Look at the clues on the right and enter the words into the boxes on the left. Use the code numbers above each letter to work out the mystery word at the bottom of the sheet.
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Year 1 spelling tests pack

Year 1 spelling tests pack

Reinforce your child's early spelling skills with a pack of simple spelling tests, designed to help them practise the phonics and spelling work they're doing in the classroom using the Look, Cover, Write and Check method.
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Year 2 spelling tests pack

Year 2 spelling tests pack

Help your child brush up their spelling skills at the end of KS1 with our pack of practice 'tests', designed to help them revise common Y2 spelling patterns and high frequency and exception words.
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The ‘tch’ grapheme worksheet

The ‘tch’ grapheme (Phase 4 phonics)

Can you find the ‘tch’ graphemes in these sentences? Draw a line under them then write your own sentences with these words.
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The ‘ph’ digraph worksheet

The ‘ph’ digraph (Phase 5 phonics)

Can you find the 'ph' digraphs in this wordsearch?
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The /or/ sound family worksheet

The /or/ sound family (Phase 5 phonics)

There are different ways of writing the sound /or/. Ask a grown-up to cut out the words at the bottom of the page and read them to you without you seeing the spelling. See if you know which grapheme each one uses to represent the /or/sound and write it on the notebooks .
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The /ai/ sound: new graphemes worksheet

The /ai/ sound: new graphemes (Phase 5 phonics)

Can you draw a line between the word and the corresponding picture. Remember that the ‘ai’ grapheme also makes the /ai/ sound, and so does the split vowel digraph a_e. When you have matched up all the pictures to the words cut them all up into individual words and pictures and mix them up. See if you can match each word to its picture now that you have lots more options.
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Split vowel digraph words and sentences worksheet

Split vowel digraph words and sentences (Phase 5 phonics)

Read the following words without an ‘e’, then add an ‘e’ to them and see how it changes the words. Then read these sentences and underline the words that have split vowel digraphs. Now can you write your own sentences including split vowel digraph words?
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Split vowel digraph crossword

Split vowel digraph crossword (Phase 5 phonics)

Can you fill in the missing words in the crossword and sentences? Every answer will be a word that is a split vowel digraph.
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Reading polysyllabic words worksheet

Reading polysyllabic words (Phase 4 phonics)

Can you read these sentences? When you get to a polysyllabic / long word, cover up the second half of the word. Read the first syllable and then uncover the rest of the word to read it.
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Reading consonant blends: gr, tr and sw worksheet

Reading consonant blends: gr, tr and sw (Phase 4 phonics)

Read the sentences on these puzzle pieces and see if you can find the matching pictures.
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Reading and writing consonant blends: sm fl gl worksheet

Reading and writing consonant blends: sm fl gl (Phase 4 phonics)

See if you can guess what these pictures are and write the words underneath. All the words start with the consonant blends sm, fl or gl.
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Reading adjacent consonants: mp, nt, st and nk worksheet

Reading adjacent consonants: mp, nt, st and nk (Phase 4 phonics)

This worksheet concentrates on these adjacent consonants: mp nt st nk. Can you write the words next to the pictures, then think of as many rhymes as you can for each word?
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Polysyllabic words wordsearch

Polysyllabic words wordsearch (Phase 4 phonics)

This fun wordsearch will help you to look at all the different syllables in each word.
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Polysyllabic words jigsaw puzzle

Polysyllabic words jigsaw puzzle (Phase 4 phonics)

Can you fit these polysyllabic jigsaw puzzle pieces together to make words?
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