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/Sh/ and /ch/ words Snap (Phase 3 phonics)
A free Phase 3 phonics game created by an experienced teacher to help your child practise their Phase 3 phonics learning. This printable activity covers /Sh/ and /Ch/ words in a simple game of Snap.
Wordsearch: the /oo/ sound (Phase 3 phonics)
Look at the /oo/ words below. Can you read them out loud? These words are all jumbled up in this wordsearch. Can you find them? Put a tick next to each word that you find.
Summer holiday wordsearch
Can you find the words in our summer holiday wordsearch?
The /ear/ sound (Phase 3 phonics)
In the phoneme frame, keep changing the first letter to read different /ear/ words. How many different words can you come up with? Write them down and then use them to make up your own sentences then read the short sentences and fill in the missing word.
The /air/ sound (Phase 3 phonics)
In the phoneme frame below, keep changing the first letter to read different words. How many different words can you come up with? Write them down and then use them to make up your own sentences. Then have a game of pairs with these /air/, /igh/ and /ear/ sound words.
The /ai/ sound (Phase 3 phonics)
When we put the letters a and i together we make the phoneme /ai/. Can you write the words under these pictures using the /ai/ sound spelled ‘ai’? Then cut out these words, read them and sort them
into piles of rhyming words.
into piles of rhyming words.
Spelling patterns: c and k (Phase 2 phonics)
Which of these words DO NOT start with a c or k? Now cut out and put together these two dice. Roll both dice together and see if when you put the single letter in front of the ending if you get a real word or a silly word.
Spelling patterns: ‘er’ and ‘ur’ (Phase 3 phonics)
The graphemes ‘er’ and ‘ur’ make the same sound, /er/. Read the sentences below then cut out the word cards and play bingo
Reading two-syllable words (Phase 2 phonics)
Start off by reading these words one syllable at a time, then show your child how to read them as one whole word. The cut out the jigsaw pieces and see if you can match together the first and second syllable to make a real word.
Reading and writing silent ‘h’ (Phase 5 phonics)
Lots of our question words start with ‘wh’. Can you read these words? Can you think of a question using each of these question words? Now fill in the gaps in these questions with the right ‘wh’ words.
Reading and writing h, f and l (Phase 2 phonics)
This worksheet all about these three letters: h, f and l. Here are some words with the first letter missing. Which letter do you need to fill in to make real words? Can you write the words in the boxes? Now read these sentences and answer yes or no.
Reading and writing e, u and r (Phase 2 phonics)
What letters do these words start with? Write the letter under each picture. Now can you highlight the letters e, ur and r in these words?
Reading and writing b and d, h and n (Phase 2 phonics)
Sometimes b gets muddled with d and h gets muddled with n. Can you highlight all the bs and all the ds in two different colours? Now cut out these words and play Pairs or Snap!
Reading and writing b and d, h and n, f and t (Phase 2 phonics)
Children often muddle up the letter shapes b and d, h and n, f and t as they look similar. Practise writing these letters and talk about why they look similar and what is different about them. Then have a quick game of letter bingo!
Phonics sentences art (Phase 2 phonics)
Read each of these sentences and then draw a picture that describes what the sentence says.
Phonics dominoes (Phase 2 phonics)
Play dominoes with these Phase 2 phonics cards. The winner is the first player to put all their cards down on the table
Phase 3 phonics tricky words practice (Phase 3 phonics)
Tricky words are ones that your child can’t sound out with their phonics knowledge but need to be learned and remembered. Here are some ideas to help your child learn tricky words.
Phase 2 phonics tricky words practice (Phase 2 phonics)
These are sight words that should not be sounded out before reading but just need to be memorised. Read the word out loud, then trace the word and finally try writing the word.
Phase 2 phonics bingo (Phase 2 phonics)
Cut out these word cards and play bingo with your child. Sometimes you can be the bingo caller and sometimes they should take a turn.
Pairs game: ‘z’ and ‘qu’ (Phase 3 phonics)
Play a game of pairs with these ‘z’ and ‘qu’ words. Each player takes it in turn to pick up two words and read them out. If they find the same word, that is a pair and they get to keep them. The winner is the player with most pairs
Making words that end in ‘ss’ (Phase 2 phonics)
Which of these words end in ‘ss’? Colour in the pictures of the words that have an /s/ sound at the end.
First letter I spy (Phase 2 phonics)
The adult chooses a letter from this list and says: “I spy with my little eye something beginning with...”; the child has to find all the pictured objects that start with that letter. Then pick a different letter and swap roles.
Double consonant pairs (Phase 2 phonics)
Print and cut out these words with double consonants and play a game of Pairs.