Play these fun games we have made to help you improve your phonics.

Please enter only your first name and initial of your surname followed by your year group and teacher initial e.g.  Bob  Smith in year 2 with Mr Booth would be Bob S 2B. This will allow us to see how you are getting on with your phonics.

If you have any suggestions for games you would like to see please e mail the school with the subject Mrs Owen - Phonics games and we will do our best to make them !

                                             phonics@westbourne.sutton.sch.uk

Confusing b and d ? Play these games !

     Recognising 'b' (remember bat then the ball)             Matching the letter to the correct Jolly phonic picture.

GROUP 1 SOUNDS

Learning the sounds

Sounding out and blending words containing these sounds. 

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Read CVC words containing these sounds - flip to see if you were correct.

GROUP 2 SOUNDS

Learn the sounds

Sounding out and blending words containing these sounds

GROUP 3 SOUNDS

Learn the sounds.

Sounding out and blending words with these sounds.

GROUP 4 SOUNDS

Learn the sounds.

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Sounding out and blending words containing 'ai'

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Sounding out and blending words containing 'oa'

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Sounding out and blending words containing 'ie'

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sounding out and blending words containing 'ee'

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Sounding out and blending words containing 'or'

Sounding out and blending words containing these sounds.

GROUP 5 SOUNDS

Learn the sounds

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Sounding out and blending words containing 'ng'

Sounding out and blending words containing these sounds

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Sorting by long oo or short oo

GROUP 6 SOUNDS

Learn the sounds.

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Reading words - focus sound 'sh'

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Reading words - focus sound 'th'

Sounding out and blending to read words with all these sounds.

Reading words - focus sound 'ch'

GROUP 7 SOUNDS

Learn the sounds.

Sounding out and blending words containing the 'qu' sound

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Sounding out and blending words containing the 'ou' sound

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Reading words - focus sound 'oi'

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Reading words- focus sound 'ue'

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Reading words - focus sound 'er'

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Reading words - focus sound 'ar'

Sounding out and blending words with these sounds.

When you have learnt the first set of sounds it is time to look at other ways of making the sounds - the alternative vowel sounds.

GROUP 8 - 'y' at the end of words making an 'ee' sound

Recognise the sound

Reading words containing the sound

GROUP 8 - Split digraphs

a-e split digraph

e-e split digraph

i-e split digraph

o-e split digraph

u-e split digraph

All Split digraphs

GROUP 9 

Learn the sounds

ay

oy

y making an 'ie' sound

ea

igh

ow (as in snow)

ow (as in clown)

Which ow ? ( as in clown or snow )

ir as in bird

ur as in turkey

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ur as in turkey

ew as in new and grew 

au as in haunt

aw as in claw

al as in talk

GROUP 10

Learn the sounds 

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soft c

soft c or not ? 

RULE: Soft c happens when the 'c' is followed by 'e' or 'i' or 'y' 

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soft c or hard c quiz

soft g 

soft g & hard g sort

RULE: Soft g happens when the 'g' is followed by 'e' or 'i' or 'y'

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Read the words by working out the sound g is making

ph as in photo

air (as in chair)

ear (as in bear)

are (as in scare)

air (as in hair) ear (as in bear) are (as in scare)

Take the 's' off of the end, sound out and blend to read the word. Add the 's' back on to the whole word.

Try and find the tricky part of each word !

SET 1 - Orange tricky words

SET 2 - Red tricky words

SET 3 - Yellow tricky words

SET 4 - Green tricky words

SET 5 - Blue tricky words

SET 6 - Purple tricky words

Once you can READ all of the Tricky words you can learn to SPELL them. Play the games to help you - Remember to learn them in order 1 set at a time.

SPELL - ORANGE TRICKY WORDS

SPELL - RED TRICKY WORDS

SPELL - YELLOW TRICKY WORDS

SPELL GREEN TRICKY WORDS

SPELL BLUE TRICKY WORDS

SPELL PURPLE TRICKY WORDS

Practise recognising all of the sounds - 1

Recognising all of the sounds - 2

Consonant cluster are groups of letters that still make their own sound when you are reading a word. This is different to a digraph when 2 or 3 letters go together to make a new sound. Sometimes practising to say these in one go can help to read longer words. Watch this video for an explanation of consonant clusters.

Read words starting with 'shr'

Read words starting with 'scr'

Read words starting with 'str'

Read words starting with 'spr'

Read words starting with 'spl'

Read words starting with 'thr'

Read words containing all of the sounds 

Game 1

Game 2

Game 3

Game 4

Game 5

Game 6

Game 7

Game 8

Once the children have learnt different ways of making the sounds already known they start to look at spelling patterns and choosing the correct spelling of each sound. Play these games to help with this.

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Sort the words game - Made by Ribble class !

 Sort the words by their spelling pattern.

Word sort game made by Cherwell Class

er, ir, ur word sorting game made by Waveney Class !

  'ch' as in chemist making a k sound.