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What is a phoneme?
A phoneme, in phonics, is the smallest unit of sound in a given language. These sounds are ‘blended’ together to form words.
Support teaching of phase 4 phonics with this pack of five illustrated worksheets.
The activities allow pupils to develop their comprehension skills, applying their knowledge of reading CVCC and CCVC words to produce responses through drawing and writing – and allowing for easy differentiation.
Get this resource here.
Moving on to phase 5 phonics, there are four reading comprehension worksheet bundles available here.
Each pack contains various themes:
Click the links above, or find them all here.
This collection of Jolly Phonics resources for KS1 and KS2 cover a range of topics:
This award-winning game makes learning to read fun, and is aimed at children in the first stages of learning to read, or for older children who need a bit more practice.
It covers everything from letters and sounds to reading full sentences and complements all synthetic phonics programmes used in schools.
It’s beautifully illustrated and narrated, you sign up yourself then let pupils create their own monster (rather than children putting their details in), and while it’s available on tablets, the computer version is absolutely free to play.
And you can do so here.
For more phonics games that are free to play online, Phonics Bloom has a selection organised by Phase. Some require a subscription, but many are free to play without even needing to sign up.
Try them here.
Set up an imaginary baked goods delivery service to explore the ‘ough’ spelling with Cara Fairhall’s Key Stage 2 literacy lesson.
The ‘ough’ spelling is a tricky one – it can represent so many different sounds and there’s no obvious pattern for how it might sound in any given word, whether that’s the /or/ sound in ‘thought’, /ou/ in ‘plough’ or /oa/ in ‘doughnut’.
So, this lesson involves children running their own imaginary doughnut delivery service in teams of two, deciding which sound the ‘ough’ spelling makes in various different words.
Conclude activities by penning and performing your own ‘ough’-themed poems, using all the words you’ve discovered.
Download this complete lesson plan here.
These printable PDFs feature a set of cards to cut out that show all the phonemes from Phase 3 and Phase 5 phonics.
Click these links to download Phase 3 cards and Phase 5 cards.
This EY/Year 1 resource set of phonics resources looks at words which use the ‘ay’ sound.
It includes guidance notes for teachers, practice sheets with traceable words using different letter forms, flashcards for sounds and spellings, a sentence maker to arrange the words and sounds into different sentences and a sound speller to have a go at writing and drawing things with the relevant sound.
Download all this here.
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