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Split digraphs revision (Phase 5 phonics)
A digraph is two letters that make up one sound, for example: ee, oe, ae, ie, ue. When a letter is put in between these two letters, this is a split digraph. Cut the words out and put them in the correct gaps in the sentences.
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.
Reading unfamiliar words using phonics
These robots have such funny names! Can you read them?
Top 100 high-frequency words
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 top 100 high-frequency words to use for at-home spelling practice and revision.
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.
The trigraph ‘igh’ (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? Then answer these yes or no questions, then make up some of
your own using the ‘igh’ words.
The letters j, v, w, x and y (Phase 3 phonics)
First practise writing each of the letters j, v, w, x and y. Now cut these words out and play bingo with your child to help them practise reading j, v, w, x and y words. Take it in turns to be the bingo caller.
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 /ow/ sound puzzle (Phase 3 phonics)
When we put the letters o and w together we get the sound /ow/ – it sounds just like the sound you might say if you hurt yourself! Read the sentences in the puzzle pieces and then draw a picture to go
with the sentence. Then cut each of the sentence and picture pieces apart and see if somebody can put them back together again.
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 /er/ sound (Phase 3 phonics)
Practise reading these ‘er’ words and then finding and highlighting the /er/ sound in the sentences below.
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.
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.
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 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 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.