The purpose of Phase 3 is to teach another 25 graphemes, most of them comprising two letters (e.g. oa), so the children can represent phonemes (sounds) by a grapheme (letters). Children also continue to practise CVC blending and segmentation in this phase and will apply their knowledge of blending and segmenting to reading and spelling simple two-syllable words and captions. They will learn letter names, learn to read some more tricky words and begin to spell some tricky words.
Phase 3 sounds
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j |
v |
w |
x |
y |
z |
zz |
qu |
ch |
sh |
th |
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ng |
ai |
ee |
igh |
oa |
oo |
ar |
or |
ur |
ow |
oi |
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ear |
air |
ure |
er |
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Phase 3 tricky words to read
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he |
she |
we |
me |
be |
was |
my |
you |
her |
they |
all |
are |
Phase 3 tricky words to spell
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I |
to |
the |
go |
no |
By the end of Phase 3 children should:
- give the sound when shown all Phase 2 and Phase 3 graphemes.
- be able to blend and read CVC words (e.g. single-syllable words consisting of Phase 2 and Phase 3 graphemes, such as ‘fish’ or ‘goat’.)
- be able to segment and make a phonemically plausible attempt at spelling words using Phase 2 and Phase 3 graphemes, such as ‘b-oa-t.’
