Phonics 25

Identifying, sorting and discriminating between long and short vowels sounds is an important aspect of phonics. This is a fun, hands-on activity.

Word making from scrambled letters is a fun, hands-on way of practising phonics and spelling skills while learning new vocabulary.

Wacky Wednesday by Dr Seuss is great fun for children - but how many real and nonsense words can they make from the letters in Wednesday?

The first step to learning digraphs is being able to identify them in common words. This simple sorting activity is a fun way to introduce digraph sounds.

Fun with phonics means simple, hands-on activities. This easy alphabet game will help with letter recognition and fine motor skills.

This rhyming words memory matching game is a fun way to spot patterns in rhyming words. 

This hands-on letter and colour sorting game is easy to prepare and is a fun way to practice letter and colour recognition skills.

Recognising and matching initial sounds is fun with this magnetic alphabet phonics activity. See if your child can match each picture to the right letter. Use a mix of upper and lower case letters for an extra challenge.

This fun and easy letter recognition matching game helps children develop speed and accuracy with identifying letter sounds out of order.

Boost reading and spelling skills with CVC word family towers. Use building blocks to make towers of rhyming words and learn to identify common word families.

Scrabble is great fun but for younger children, it is better to start with a simplified version. This game is great for blending and practising the spelling of CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. 

Learning to rhyme is one of the very first phonological skills that children acquire on their way to becoming proficient readers. This fun word building game will encourage children to understand how rhyming works.

Letter matching activities are an excellent way to explore the alphabet. This is a very simple and easy upper and lowercase letter matching activity, with some fine motor skills practice thrown in!

CVC words are three letter words that follow a consonant/vowel/consonant pattern. Use building blocks to help blend sounds when reading common CVC words. Making reading practice fun and hands-on.