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Phase 5 phonics tricky words practice worksheet

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?
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Phase 4 phonics tricky words practice worksheet

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.
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Phase 4 phonics Connect 4 game

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.
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Phase 3 phonics tricky words practice worksheet

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.
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Phase 2 phonics tricky words practice worksheet

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.
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Phase 2 phonics bingo game

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.
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Pairs game: ‘z’ and ‘qu’

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
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Making words that end in ‘ss’ worksheet

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.
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Homographs explained worksheet

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
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First letter I spy

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.
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Double consonant pairs worksheet

Double consonant pairs (Phase 2 phonics)

Print and cut out these words with double consonants and play a game of Pairs.
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Decoding the ‘ou’ grapheme worksheet

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’.
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Decoding the ‘c’ and ‘ea’ graphemes worksheet

Decoding the ‘c’ and ‘ea’ graphemes (Phase 5 phonics)

Here are some pictures. Can you work out which is the correct spelling next to each picture and tick it?
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Decoding graphemes: ‘ow’, ‘y’ and ‘i’ worksheet

Decoding graphemes: ‘ow’, ‘y’ and ‘i’ (Phase 5 phonics)

In these sentences there are examples of different pronunciations of the same grapheme. Using different-colour pencils, read the sentence and highlight the different ones.
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Decoding graphemes: ‘o’, ‘ie’ and ‘ch’ worksheet

Decoding graphemes: ‘o’, ‘ie’ and ‘ch’ (Phase 5 phonics)

In these sentences there are examples of different pronunciations of the same grapheme. Using different-colour pencils, read the sentence and highlight the different ones.
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Consonant clusters pairs game

Consonant clusters pairs game (Phase 4 phonics)

These words all have consonant clusters in them. Cut them up, mix them up and put them face down on the table to play pairs.
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CCVC words revision worksheet

CCVC words revision (Phase 4 phonics)

Cut out all the words and put them face down on the table. Play pairs with a partner and take it in turn to lift two cards and read them. If they are the same word, keep them as a pair.
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Building Phase 2 phonics words worksheet

Building Phase 2 phonics words (Phase 2 phonics)

Cut out the letters below. Can you think of a word that starts with each one? Now listen to these words – can you hear the sounds in the word? Can you find the sounds to build the word?
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Building CCVCC words with a frame worksheet

Building CCVCC words with a frame (Phase 4 phonics)

Shall we play a game of CVCC word construction? Print the letter sheet out three times. Cut out the cards; organise them in three piles, letters face down. Pick up one from each pile and put them in the right place on the phoneme frame according to the number that is on the card. If it makes a real word you get to keep it as a set. If it’s not a real word, the cards go back on the pile in the correct place.
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Adjacent consonants f and t, n and d worksheet

Adjacent consonants f and t, n and d (Phase 4 phonics)

Can you add the adjacent consonants ft or nd to make these into real words?
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