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Phase 3 phonics

Browse our collection of Letters and Sounds phase 3 phonics activities for the early years and year 1. You'll find games, printable worksheets, PowerPoints and macthing activities for all the phonemes in phase 3 phonics. 

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Phase 3 Letters and Sounds Workbook

A phase 3 workbook with over 80 pages. Fun ways to help children remember their letters and sounds- colouring, tracing, connecting letters, reading and writing words.

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Cursive Alphabet Handwriting Worksheets

Children can trace the letters and colour in pictures for each letter.

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Phase 3 Tricky Words Colour by Code

Differentiated colouring activity that helps children learn their tricky words. Available in Cursive, Precursive and Foundation Fonts.

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Handwriting, Tracing letters, Colouring for Phase 3 Sounds

Cursive handwriting worksheets featuring Phase 3 letters and digraphs. Available in a cursive font with or without lead in strokes.

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Read and Match

A printable phonics activity that covers all Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs. Simply cut up the cards and let the children match the words to the pictures.

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I can hear sounds

A cutting and sticking activity for sh, ch, ng and th. Can the children hear these sounds in words?

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Tricky Words PowerPoint

Teach the Phase 3 tricky words with this animated PowerPoint presentation.

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Phase 3 Phoneme Frames

Phase 3 phoneme frames for digraphs and trigraphs.

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Phase 3 Words

Read and write words with Phase 3 phonics sounds. Available in cursive, cursive with lead in strokes and Foundation font. Featuring j,v,w,x,y,z,qu,sh,ch,ai,ng,ee,oi,oa,ar,oo,ow,or,ur,er,th, igh, air,ear,ure

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Phase 3 Sounds Read and Draw

An activity that encourages children to use digraphs as well as their creativity. This resource covers all Phase 3 sounds.

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What is  learnt in phase 3 phonics?

• The following sounds: j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu. Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng. Vowel digraphs and trigraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er.
• Childen will also learn the letter names and continue to consolidate the sounds learnt in Phase 2.
• Children will also read some high-frequency ‘tricky’ words including:  my, you, her, he, she, we, me, be, was, they, all, are.
• By the end of phase 3 children may be able to read some VC and CVC words and to spell them either using magnetic letters or writing using your chosen method of recording.

During the phase children will be introduced to reading two-syllable words and simple captions.

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Time for Phonics provides teachers with a specialist created Letters and Sounds phonics scheme for phase 3, including:

• Daily and weekly phase 3 phonics planning, following the Letters and Sounds progression.
• Phase 3 interactive lesson presentations.
• Phase 3 decodable texts and mini-books.
• On-demand phonics training videos.
• Phase 3 interactive online phonics games that work on any computer or device.
• Handwriting resources.
• Accompanying low-prep phase 3 phonics resources.
• Phase 3 phonics assessments to track your pupils' progress.

Suitable for both phonics and non-specialists, with fresh ideas and inspiration,

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Phonics phases explained

When your child starts school, phonics becomes a big part of everyday life, transforming them from a non-reader to a child who is capable of reading fluently and spelling (mostly!) accurately by the end of Year 2.

Primary schools follow different phonics schemes, and each takes a slightly different approach to teaching phonics , but it’s common for your child to be taught in a series of phases throughout the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1.

Early phonics teaching in pre-school, in Nursery English and at the start of Reception focuses on developing children’s listening skills. ‘Early years environments do a lot of aural work at quite a slow pace, training children in awareness of sounds,’ explains Sara Wernham, a primary school teacher and one of the developers of the Jolly Phonics scheme. In Phase 1 phonics , children are taught about:  

• Environmental sounds
• Instrumental sounds
• Body percussion (e.g. clapping and stamping)
• Rhythm and rhyme
• Alliteration
• Voice sounds
• Oral blending and segmenting (e.g. hearing that d-o-g makes ‘dog’)

Typical activities for teaching Phase 1 phonics include 'listening' walks, playing and identifying instruments, action songs, learning rhymes and playing games like I Spy .

This phase is intended to develop children’s listening, vocabulary and speaking skills.  

Phase 2 phonics

Phase 3 phonics

Phase 4 phonics

By now, children should be confident with each phoneme. ‘From here on, phonics teaching is about consolidating and refining their knowledge, introducing more spelling patterns and tricky words, and increasing vocabulary,’ Sara says. In Phase 4 phonics , children will, among other things:

• Practise reading and spelling CVCC words (‘bump', 'nest', ‘belt,’ ‘milk’, etc)
• Practise reading and spelling high frequency words
• Practise reading and writing sentences
• Learn more tricky words, including ‘have,’ ‘like,’ ‘some,’ ‘little’

Phase 5 phonics

Phase 5 generally takes children the whole of Year 1. ‘Here, we start introducing alternative spellings for sounds, like 'igh',” says Sara. ‘Children master these in reading first, and as their fluency develops, we begin to see them using them correctly in spelling.’ Children learn new graphemes  (different ways of spelling each sound) and alternative pronunciations for these: for example, learning that the grapheme ‘ow’ makes a different sound in ‘snow’ and ‘cow’.  They should become quicker at blending, and start to do it silently.  They learn about split digraphs (the ‘magic e’) such as the a-e in ‘name.’ They’ll start to choose the right graphemes when spelling, and will learn more tricky words, including ‘people,’ ‘water’ and ‘friend’. They also learn one new phoneme: /zh/, as in ‘treasure.’ By the end of Year 1, children should be able to:

• Say the sound for any grapheme they are shown
• Write the common graphemes for any given sound (e.g. ‘e,’ ‘ee,’ ‘ie,’ ‘ea’)
• Use their phonics knowledge to read and spell unfamiliar words of up to three syllables
• Read all of the 100 high frequency words, and be able to spell most of them
• Form letters correctly

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Phase 6 phonics

Phase 6 phonics takes place throughout Year 2, with the aim of children becoming fluent readers and accurate spellers. By Phase 6, children should be able to read hundreds of words using one of three strategies:

• Reading them automatically
• Decoding them quickly and silently
• Decoding them aloud

Children should now be spelling most words accurately (this is known as ' encoding '), although this usually lags behind reading. They will also learn, among other things:

• Prefixes and suffixes , e.g. ‘in-’ and ‘-ed’
• The past tense
• Memory strategies for high frequency or topic words
• Proof-reading
• How to use a dictionary
• Where to put the apostrophe in words like ‘I’m’
• Spelling rules

Although formal phonics teaching is usually complete by the end of Year 2, children continue to use their knowledge as they move up the school. ‘The whole aim of phonics teaching is not just to learn the sounds, but to use them as a tool for reading and spelling,’ explains Sara. ‘Everything leads on to independent reading and writing.’

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Phase 3 Phonics Activities

Subject: English

Age range: 5-7

Resource type: Worksheet/Activity

Last updated

5 August 2021

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This resource provides students with fun ways to practise Phase 3 words. Each activity uses the same spelling words. This bundle is designed to complement the Letters and Sounds spelling program. This pack is a no prep needed just print out and go. Perfect for spelling centers, homework, whole class or small group activities

Activities included are; These activities can be used for small group instruction, literacy centers, phonics games, homework or whole class activities.

Included in this bundle is;

Phase 3 spelling list words containing;

Single sounds - j,v,w,x,z,zz,qu

Consonant digraphs - ch,sh,th, and ng

Vowel digraphs and trigraphs - ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er

Look, Cover, Write Check Activity – children cover there list word then write it from memory in pencil, marker and highlighter checking each time they spelled the word correctly.

Roll and Write Game – students roll a dice, and choose a spelling list word to trace of the corresponding number.

Word Shapes Activity – students write their list words in the correct shapes box.

Word Shapes Answers

Rainbow Writing Activity – students write their spelling words in whichever colour they spin.

Wordsearch – students find their list words hidden in the wordsearch.

Wordsearch answers

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