Letter Fans
A handy tool to create letter fans, for use either on-screen or printed off.
Choose phonemes for each fan from the Settings screen, using either the pre-set groups or making your own bespoke selections. Print off to make into hand-held fans or explore combinations on-screen. Press the play button to hear the sounds read out, moving the fans closer together to increase the speed of blending.
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Letter Fans, Alphabet Cards and Tiles
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A handy set of tools, all based around constructing words with grapheme-phoneme combinations. See the How To guides for functionality and the Top Tips for examples of learning dialogues.
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Phonics Phase 2 and 3 Master Pack
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This pack collects some of our favourite teaching tools and practice activities, following the order of Phase 2 and the first part of Phase 3, Letters and Sounds. This includes short phonetically decodable words, using most common single letter graphemes as well as two-letter alternatives like ss, ll, zz. All words are CVC in form. The lead activity contains flash cards with words for each of the early phonemes. The alternative flash cards set mixes up real and fake words for reading. For the latter part of phase 3 (2 letter graphemes like ch, sh) and all of phase 4 (non-CVC words), click here
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Phonics Phase 3 and 4 Master Pack
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This pack collects some of our favourite teaching tools and practice activities for phase 3 (latter part) and phase 4 phonics. This includes words from both phases, starting with phase 3 (two-letter graphemes, ch, sh etc.) and leads into non-CVC word patterns from phase 4. For earlier phonetic skills, including all the single letter graphemes and two-letter graphemes like ss, zz, ll and qu, click-here For later skills, including new graphemes (such as ay, ie, ue, aw) and alternative pronunciations of graphemes such as grow/down (including split digraph), click here