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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.
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.
Words containing 'tch' (Phase 5 phonics)
The 'tch' grapheme is a trigraph (one sound made up of three letters) used to represent the /ch/ sound. Cut out these letters. How many words can you make containing 'tch'?
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Polysyllabic words wordsearch (Phase 4 phonics)
This fun wordsearch will help you to look at all the different syllables in each word.
Polysyllabic words jigsaw puzzle (Phase 4 phonics)
Can you fit these polysyllabic jigsaw puzzle pieces together to make words?
Phonics Connect 4: sp, pl and st (Phase 4 phonics)
This game is a bit like Connect 4, but with words using the adjacent consonants sp pl st.
Phase 5 phonics tricky words practice (Phase 5 phonics)
First read these tricky words then read the following paragraph. Can you highlight all the new tricky words and then answer the questions below?
Phase 4 phonics tricky words practice (Phase 4 phonics)
Cut them out these tricky Phase 4 phonics words and ask your child to read them out. See which ones they do know straight away and separate the ones that they don’t know. Then think of a sentence with one or more of these words and ask your child to find the tricky word that you emphasised.
Phase 4 phonics Connect 4 (Phase 4 phonics)
This game is a bit like Connect 4, but with words. All the words in this game include the adjacent consonants nt and lt.
Homographs explained (Phase 5 phonics)
Cut out these homographs. Can you think of two different meanings for each word? Now have a go at writing your own sentences using these homographs
Decoding the ‘ou’ grapheme (Phase 5 phonics)
In these sentences there are examples of different pronunciations of the same ‘ou’ grapheme. Using different-colour highlighters, read each sentence and highlight the different sounds represented by ‘ou’.