Underwater Words (Alternative Pronunciations)
The first phonics practice game for the 'Alternative Pronunciations' progression (underwater theme)
Can you make a word to match the picture on the submarine? Drag the correct letters and sounds into the boxes. This game has a progression of stages that takes pupils through alternative pronunciations of ow, ie, ea, er, ou, y, ey, ch, c and g.
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Phonics
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A comprehensive set of Phonics games for emerging readers of all abilities. These follow commonly accepted progressions through initial letters, digraphs, consonant patterns and alternative spellings and pronunciations. As a teacher, you can specify exactly which words you want to play with, choosing them from word groups organised by phonic features. The games are ideal as lesson starters or for pupils to play, individually or in small groups, at a stage that suits their ability.
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Phonics Phase 5 (pt.1) Master Pack
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This pack collects some of our favourite teaching tools and practice activities for phonic skills featured at the start of Letters and Sounds Phase 5. This includes new graphemes (such as ay, ie, ue, aw) and alternative pronunciations of graphemes, such as grow/down (including split digraph). For more tools and games related to the latter part of phase 5, i.e. alternative spellings for each phoneme, click here For earlier phonic skills from phase 4 (non-CVC words using common GPCs) click here