This series of worksheets encourages students to decode and blend a series of words, where two sounds are made by the same letter representation. Each worksheet focuses on a specific digraph or vowel sound and asks students to read the words as fast as they can. The worksheet is designed to be revisited, with students increasing their fluency and time in subsequent reads.
Teachers can use the sheets as a formative assessment tool, to send home as revision or to identify areas of need in students' phonological awareness. This resource is part of a larger unit of work on Blending and Segmenting- Year 3.
Understand how to apply knowledge of phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns
Understand how to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns
Uses a range of strategies, including knowledge of letter– sound correspondences and common letter patterns, to spell familiar and some unfamiliar words
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
Sustains independent reading with accuracy, automaticity, rate and prosody suited to purpose, audience and meaning
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
Understand how to apply knowledge of letter–sound relationships, and blending and segmenting to read and use more complex words with less common consonant and vowel clusters