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The English Alphabetic Code: Consonants with main alternative spellings

Listen, read and repeat the consonant letter sounds.
A. Graphemes (one letter = one sound)
b c / k d f g h
bat
rabbit
cat
kick
dog
daddy
fish
puff
elephant
golf
bigger
hat

j l m n p r
jam
giraffe
orange
bridge
leg
silly
map
mummy
net
sunny
know
pig
happy
rock
hurry
write
s t v w x y z
sun
dress
horse
circle
peace
top
kitty
van wind
when
box yes zoo
buzz
cheese
legs

Listen, read and repeat the consonant letter sounds.
B. Digraphs (two letters = one sound)
ch sh th / th qu ng / nk
chips
witch
ship
chef
that / three queen king
think

Notes:
a) x /ks/, qu /kw/ and nk /ngk/ are not pure phonemes
b) the final consonant phoneme zh is the voiced sh sound (vision, measure). Words with
this phoneme are taught as tricky words.

The English Alphabetic Code: Vowels with main alternative spellings

Listen, read and repeat the vowel letter sounds.
A. Graphemes (one letter = one sound)
a e i o u
ant egg
bread
in on up


Listen, read and repeat the vowel letter sounds.
B. Digraphs (two letters = one sound) and trigraphs (three letters = one sound)
ai ee ie oa ue oi
rain
day
lake
see
eat
scene
funny
pie
my
light
mine
boat
yellow
home
cue
new
cube
oil
boy
ou oo / oo ar or er / //
house
brown
look / moon
blue
rule
park short
talk
awful
autumn
her
bird
nurse
learn
sister


Notes:
a) ue /yoo/ is not a pure phoneme.
b) Words are often tricky because the vowel sound doesnt follow a spelling pattern
e.g. done rhymes with sun; put rhymes with foot; great rhymes with wait and late;
you rhymes with do and too; and word rhymes with herd and bird.

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Phonics: consonant sound activities


1. Example of an alternative spelling pattern for the f sound (Kids Box 3 ABp68)




2. Example of a voiced and unvoiced consonant pair f and v (Super Minds 3 WBp39)















3. The friendly blenders game (also br, cr, dr, fr, pr, tr, thr, bl, cl, gl, pl, sk, sm, sn, squ, scr, spl, spr, str)

fr gr tr fl sp st





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Phonics: Vowel sound activities

4. Sound pairs for the Frog Hop game

The Frog Hop game














5. The ay / ai sound - Circle the words.

snakedayraincakelatesaytail


Complete the sentences:

1. We saw a big snake at the zoo.
2. How do you ______ that in English?
3. Im sorry Im _______ for class.
4. I like _________ but I dont like cheese.
5. A monkey has got a long ________.
6. What _____ is it? Its Monday.
7. Its cloudy today. Its going to ________.


a u i ee o oa
cat
cap
bag
fan
hat
match
Sam
cut
cup
bug
fun
hut
much
some
sit
chip
fit
dip
bit
fill
will
seat
cheap
feet
deep
beat
feel
wheel
not
got
rod
hop
rob
cot
clock
note
goat
road
hope
robe
coat
cloak


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6. The ee phoneme. Choose and spell.

ee, ea, y or ey?
tr_____
t____ch
sp____k
ver__
b_____ch
____t
t_____th
mon____
gr_____n
sl_____p
funn___
monk___

7. Circle the words with the ie / y / i_e / igh spellings

pieflylightrideprizericecrynightpinebike



pie pine

8. Word searches: words with the /u:/ sound.


f o o d e g r e w
r b o o t l e w t
u b l u e u d h h
i z t h r e w o r
t o o t h r f r o
a o x s h o e u u
b c s c h o o l g
j u i c e m l e h
food blue tooth juice fruit
zoo glue school rule room
through grew threw shoe
who boot







Also see DJ Cow online

9. The or sound. Circle the odd sound out.

1. a) sport b) born c) work d) storm
2. a) board b) walk c) form d) coat
3. a) house b) horse c) course d) short
4. a) talk b) park c) awful d) ball

10. Match the rhyming words.

1 see _d_
2 hurt ___
3 cake ___
4 off ___
5 one ___
6 four ___
a) door
b) cough
c) fun
d) key
e) shirt
f) ache
7 fly ___
8 cant ___
9 two ___
10 time ___
11 late ___
12 wear ___
g) do
h) buy
i) hair
j) aunt
k) climb
l) straight