Moorlands Primary School

Phonics

Phonics

We suggest that you do phonics every day for 20 minutes. The children need to spend time reading real and nonsense words. We have added a selection of fun phonics games that can be adapted for different words and a selection of games too at the bottom!

Mrs Watson’s phonics group

This week, please practise the alternative spellings for oo and phase 5 tricky words (please see the Year 1 homework page on the website for a list of tricky words).

Can you practise reading and writing the following words. We have already learnt oo, ue and ew but u-e is a new way to write the ai sound. It is called a split diagraph because a letter goes in the middle!

oo

ue

ew

u-e

boot

moon

spoon

blue

clue

true 

new

stew

few

 tune

June

rule

 

 

Challenge: Can you write a sentence including these words?

 

 

Can you practise reading the following nonsense words:

oo

ue

ew

u-e

zook

quoop

nooth

penue

fute

buep

 

whew

tew

gewp

 

prute

shume

chuje

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mrs Jones’ and Mrs Owens’ phonics group

This week, please practise the sounds, ay, oy, aw, ph and au. As usual please practice the phase 5 tricky words (please see the Year 1 homework page on the website for a list of tricky words).

Can you practise reading and writing the following words:

ay

oy

aw

ph

au

everyday

daylight

playgroup

haystack

employment

overjoyed

toyshop

annoyed

lawnmower

handsaw

outlaw

dawdle

 earphone

typhoon

phrase

trophy

autograph

astronaut

saucer

automatic

 

Challenge: Can you write a sentence including these words?

 

Can you practise reading the following nonsense words:

ay

oy

aw

ph

au

scray

traybs

frooay

chayer

troyeth

oysker

reoysh

koyeb  

 

 plawed

rawth

thawbsk

quawen

 

 

gleaph

strphen

phyut

wheph

drauth

craup

drauzz

hauff  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Useful phonics websites:

www.phonicsplay.co.uk

www.letters-and-sounds.com

www.ictgames.com

Please see the Year 1 homework page on the school website for more phonics resources, a list of letter sounds for each phase and a list of tricky words.