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Split digraphs revision football worksheet

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.
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Y1 phonics screening check 2014 past paper

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.
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Reading unfamiliar words using phonics worksheet

Reading unfamiliar words using phonics

These robots have such funny names! Can you read them?
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First 100 high-frequency words

First 100 high-frequency words list

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 first 100 high-frequency words to use for at-home spelling practice and revision.
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Writing the /e/ sound: ‘ea’

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.
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Initial sounds: r or f?

Initial sounds: r or f? (Phase 2 phonics)

Look at the pictures below. Do the words begin with r or f? Cut the pictures out and stick them into the correct circle.
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Initial sounds: q

Initial sounds: q (Phase 3 phonics)

Henry is stuck! He’s been asked to colour in everything on this page which begins with ‘q’. He’s not sure which pictures to colour in. Can you help? Get your coloured pencils out and colour in all the objects below that begin with the letter ‘q’ (the /k/ + /w/ sound).
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Initial sounds matching

Initial sounds matching (Phase 2 phonics)

Do you recognise all these things? Match the pictures that begin with the same sound! Then see if you can spot which one is the odd one out. This is a Phase 2 worksheet, suitable for children at the beginning of Reception.
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Initial sounds: m, d and p

Initial sounds: m, d and p (Phase 2 phonics)

Let's play I spy! Look around you. Can you see anything that begins with these sounds? Draw pictures in the eyes of things you see beginning with each sound.
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Initial sounds: h

Initial sounds: h (Phase 2 phonics)

Magnifying glass at the ready – it’s time to go on a hunt for ‘h’! Go around your house collecting things that begin with ‘h’. Once you’ve collected five things draw a picture of them in this hat. Ask your mum or dad to help you label them.
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Initial sounds: h and b

Initial sounds: h and b (Phase 2 phonics)

Jack and Eva are going on their summer holiday. They’ve drawn a picture list of everything they need to take with them but they’ve missed off the first letters on the words below. Can you use either an ‘h’ or a ‘b’ to complete the words?
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Initial sounds: g and k

Initial sounds: g and k (Phase 2 phonics)

Can you be a letter detective and spy the sounds /g/ and /k/ in this box? Colour the ‘g’s in red and the ‘k’s in blue. Then match the pictures to the sound that they begin with and colour the pictures in.
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Initial sounds: a and b

Initial sounds: a and b (Phase 2 phonics)

Circle the objects that Ella has seen that begin with ‘a’ and ‘b’.
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Find the missing sounds: o and n

Find the missing sounds: o and n (Phase 2 phonics)

This sound burglar has been stealing sounds from the words below. Can you see what sounds he has in his bag? Help these words get their sounds back by filling in the missing letters!
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CVC letter fans activity

CVC letter fans (Phase 2 phonics)

A fun way to practise letter sounds! Cut out each letter, make a hole with a hole punch or scissors where the circle is and put some string through it. You need to make one fan for vowels and one for consonants. Once you have made the fans, ask your child to say each sound and think of a word with that sound in it.
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Initial letter matching puzzle worksheet

Initial letter matching puzzle

There are lots of Christmas things pictured on this worksheet! Say the first sound of each picture. Now can you find the right sound and match it with the rest of the word?
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Spelling patterns: igh and i_e worksheet

Spelling patterns: 'igh' and 'i_e' (Phase 5 phonics)

Read these words and use them to fill in the blanks in the sentences. We are practising spelling words with 'igh' and 'i_e'.
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Sound buckets: using ir, or, ar and ur worksheet

Sound buckets: using ‘ir’, ‘or’, ‘ar’ and ‘ur’ (Phase 5 phonics)

Choose a sound from two or three of the buckets and see how many words you can make.
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Reading unfamiliar words using phonics worksheet

Reading unfamiliar words using phonics

These robots have such funny names! Can you read them?
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Correcting spelling using phonic knowledge worksheet

Correcting spelling using phonic knowledge

Sammy has had a spelling test today. Some of the words he has written correctly, others he has got wrong. Can you put a tick next to the words he has spelled correctly and help him by writing the wrong words out properly below?
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Breaking words into phonemes: sound button worksheet

Breaking words into phonemes: sound button (Phase 5 phonics)

This worksheet focuses on breaking words into phonemes. Look at these words, then use the sound button as you read them out! Press the button underneath the word, say the sound then say the word.
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Writing CCVC words worksheet

Writing CCVC words (Phase 4 phonics)

Look at the pictures. Can you write the word underneath the image? Remember to pick a word with the right number of letters!
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Two-letter vowel sounds: /ee/ /oo/ /ur/ worksheet

Two-letter vowel sounds: /ee/ /oo/ /ur/ (Phase 3 phonics)

Can you think of words which contain the sounds /ee/, /oo/ or /ur/?
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Split digraph o_e worksheet

Split digraph 'o_e' (Phase 5 phonics)

Cut out the shape below. Fold along the lines and stick the flaps down to make a cube. Then take turns to roll the die. Can you write a word that is spelled using those letters?
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Reading the /sh/ and /ch/ sounds worksheet

Reading the /sh/ and /ch/ sounds (Phase 3 phonics)

What words can you think of that end in /sh/ or /ch? Can you write in the missing sounds in these words?
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