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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.
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 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!
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 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
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.
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.
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
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.