Phonics
Please help your child to be confident with Phase 3 sounds.
Phase 3 sound mat
We are learning to blend these sounds together to read more complex words. Here are some examples of the kinds of phonemes that children are expected to understand
- Sk, lt, lp, if, and pt - for example skip, tilt, help,
- Scr, shr, thr, nch and str - scrunch, shrimp, throw, strip
- Fr, nl, fl, gl and pl - frown, flow, glove, play
- Cl, sl, sp, st and tw - clap, slap, spot, stop, twelve
- Sm, pr, sc, sk and sn - smile, prick, scare, skate, snow
Games to help with blending
Key phonics Vocabulary.
Phoneme - the smallest unit of sound in a word
Grapheme - letter(s) representing a phoneme: t, ai, igh
Digraph - two letters which make one sound
•A consonant digraph contains two consonants sh ck th ll
•A vowel digraph contains at least one vowel ai ee ar oy
Trigraph - three letters, which make one sound tch ear igh dge
Split vowel - a digraph in which the two letters are not adjacent (e.g. a-e as in make or i-e in site)