Phonics activities
Monday 11th Jan
Tuesday 12th Jan - a-e sound
Practice reading a-e words. This is a great game to help with that. Follow the link. Click start – phase 5 – then select the a-e sound. Children read the word and select treasure if it is real and bin if it isn’t.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/buried-treasure
If you don’t want to use the screen you could write out some words and ask children to sort them that way.
Wednesday 13th Jan
Learn split i-e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFW1vnaXZBI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-swf3Gy_40
Write split i-e words learnt onto strips of paper and make a paperchain snake (picture sent separately).
Thurs 14th Jan
Recap i-e sound (play Mr Thorne video again if you would like to).
Ask the children to write some i-e words onto pieces of paper (about 6 or 7) . Then hide them around the house/room/garden for the children to find and if they read them correctly they keep the word if it is incorrect the adult gets the word. The winner is the one with the most words!
Friday 15th Jan - tricky word spelling day
Look say cover write check
Look, say, cover, write, check is a method of learning spelling, where children:
• Study a word – look for any tricky bits
• Say it aloud a few times
• Cover it up with a piece of paper or their hand
• Write the spelling next to the original word
• Check their version to see if they got it right.
Monday 18th Jan - revisit activities
This game is good for gong over known sounds
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/grab-a-giggling-grapheme
Choose i-e or a-e sentences to read from here.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5/sentences-5a
Tuesday 19th Jan
Phonics – learn split o-e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rth5A-fOFzc
After the video maybe hide some o-e words around the house to find and practise reading.
Wed 20th Jan -Recap split o-e sound again
Write out the sentences ... I am at home. I fell in a hole.
Ask the children to read them by sounding out if needed.
Read and write o-e words on the sheet to match to the pictures.
Friday 22nd Jan
Recap the e-e sound from yesterday. Write out some e-e words for the children to read.
Verbally give them some e-e words to segment and write down. If you want a diversion from pen and paper feel free to find some creative ways to write them down! e.g. in a plate of sugar or flour, shaving foam, mud, paint. I look forward to seeing the pics!
Mon 25th Jan
Sentence dictation activity. Read the attached sentences and ask your child to write them down. I usually say the sentence and then get the children to repeat it back to me. They then keep saying it as they write it down. I encourage them to remember finger spaces between words, Capital letter at the start and full stop at the end.
Tues 26th Jan - phonics teach u-e
Learn split u-e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrzRFj4d3q8
Give children real and made up u-e words to read and sort
Wed 27th Jan - read u-e words
Race to the top game. Roll the dice (or pic a number if you have no dice). Read the word by that number. Tick or colour the word if correct. Roll dice again and read the word. Continue until you reach the top of one of the lines.
Ask the children to write some u-e words if time.
Thursday 28th Jan
Tricky word spelling practise.
Fri 29th Jan
Phonics – wh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBA-R3Sx1Pc
Roll and read
Choose one or two wh words and write them in a sentence.
Monday 1st Feb
Recap wh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuYZVrh1iPc
Play quick write – Give children a wh word and see how many times they can write it in a minute. Can they write more than you?! Repeat a few times with different wh words.
Tues 2nd Feb
Learn ph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1bseW0nI2k
Read the ph words and find them in the word search
Thurs 4th Feb
Learn ew sound (bit of a tricky one)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJL84QOnGIA
Mon 8th Feb
ew words sentences
Complete the word search for ew words
Tues 9th Feb
Practising spelling tricky words
https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/activities/speller/
Lists – 100 common words – list one
Wed 10th Feb
Chose an ew word then roll the dice (or pick a number card if you dont have a dice) to see how you can practice writing it in different ways.
chew grew blew screw few drew crew new
Thurs 11th Feb
Recap igh sound using Mr Thorne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCR2RZ4ZYY
Use the sheet to help practise reading and writing igh words.
Fri 12th Feb
Mon 22nd Feb - Recap oa sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCJyHN0IFE8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbLTgyrC3eg
Use the letters from each group on the attached sheet to make oa words.
Tues 23rd Feb
Recap oa sound from yesterday by reading the real and alien words.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/3/picnic-on-pluto
Select phase 3 and then the oa sound
Wed 24th Feb
Recap ar sound already learnt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXkE8aWfg2E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEvlotQZf50
Use the roll and read to read the words and then cover and write the word too.
Thurs 25th Feb
Recap ar sound from yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXkE8aWfg2E
Read and write ar words on the sheet
Fri 26th Feb
Learn ear trigraph (3 letters making one sound)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EneZ1UubxSA
Tues 2nd March
Learn air trigraph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcHIX2xK--A