BY THE SOUNDS OF IT!
Phase 3 and 4 Phonics
PHASE 3 PHONICS
In Phase 3 children will be able to:
• Children are ready to blend and segment
• Children learn 25 new graphemes
• Children will learn 12 new tricky words
• Children will also learn the letter names
Segment – splitting words into the individual sounds
Blend – putting the individual sounds into one word
PHASE 3 DIGRAPHS AND TRICKY
WORDS
j, v, w, x, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh,
oa, oo, or, ar, oi, ow, er, ur, ear, ure, air
he, she, we, me, be, was, you, they, are,
all, my, her
SENTENCE EXAMPLE
I can run to the park.
I can wait for the red bus.
PHASE 4 PHONICS
The main aim of this Phase is to consolidate children’s knowledge
In Phase 4 children will be able to:
• There are no new graphemes to learn
• Children will be able to read simple two syllable words (sandwich)
• They will be able to read simple sentences and captions
• Able to recognise and write tricky words
• Children will learn 14 new tricky words to read
PHASE 4 PHONICS CONTINUED…
Adjacent consonants – what are they?
st – start
mp – damp
br – brush
gr – grip
We sometimes call these CVCC/CCVC/CVCCC/CCVCC words
PHASE 4 TRICKY WORDS
Said, have, like, so, do, come,
some, were, there, little, one, when,
out, what
SENTENCE EXAMPLE
My damp tent smells as bad as a mad
skunk.
My chimp had a sandwich for her lunch.
HOW DO WE TEACH IT AT
SCHOOL?
Revisit/Review
Practise previously learned letters or graphemes
Quick write phonemes
Concentrates on phonemes/graphemes that children are
not 100% sure of
Flashcard all known/write known phonemes
HOW DO WE TEACH IT AT SCHOOL
CONT…
Teach
New graphemes (in Phase 4 teaching how to read CCVC words)
One or two new tricky words
Spell tricky words from Phase 3
Teach the new sound oo. Introduce the sound and action. Give examples of
words with this new phoneme in
HOW DO WE TEACH IT AT SCHOOL
CONT…
Practise
Blending and reading words with the new grapheme
Segmenting and spelling words
Reading new tricky words
Read words on the board together, saying a sound for each phoneme
book
foot
Also read some alien words
coof
wook
HOW DO WE TEACH IT AT SCHOOL
CONT…
Apply
Read or write a caption or sentence using tricky words and the new
graphemes
Write a sentence on the board for children to read or children to write their
own simple sentence.
‘I go to the moon in a boat’