Your students can practise their oral segmenting and blending skills with this fun whole-class game. Students will listen to a segmented word before blending it and looking for the matching picture. Terrific as a warmup activity or for skill revision.
Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs to write words, and blend these to read one- and two-syllable words
Segment words into separate phonemes (sounds) including consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of words (phonological awareness)
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
Segment consonant blends or clusters into separate phonemes at the beginnings and ends of one syllable words
Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends when writing, and blend these to read single syllable words
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
Identify the separate phonemes in consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of syllables
Recognise short vowels, common long vowels and consonant digraphs, and consonant blends
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound, and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound