Phonics Games
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
Hear the 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
Hear the sounds
Learn the sounds
Sounding out and blending words containing these sounds
GROUP 3 SOUNDS
Hear the sounds
Learn the sounds.
Sounding out and blending words with these sounds.
GROUP 4 SOUNDS
Hear the 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
Hear the 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
Hear the 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
Hear the 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
Hear all the sounds
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.
Recognise initial 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.