Phonics Games

Phase 1 Phonics games focus on developing children’s listening and sound awareness skills. Through games that involve listening carefully, recognising environmental sounds, copying rhythms, and playing with rhyme and alliteration, children begin to tune into the sounds of spoken language.

Phase 2 Phonics games help children begin linking letters to sounds and using those sounds to read simple words. Through interactive activities, children practise recognising letter sounds, blending sounds together, and reading short words made from the letters they know.

Phase 3 Phonics games give children practice with a wider range of sounds and spellings, including digraphs and trigraphs. The games help children blend and segment longer words, recognise new letter patterns, and read and spell a broader range of words with increasing confidence.

Phase 4 Phonics games focus on helping children practise reading and spelling longer words more fluently. Through repeated blending and segmenting activities, children learn to handle adjacent consonants and begin reading longer words without adding extra vowel sounds.

Phase 5 Phonics games help children practise alternative spellings and pronunciations for familiar sounds. The activities support children as they learn that the same sound can be written in different ways, and help them choose the correct spelling when reading and spelling words.

Phase 6 Phonics games support children as they apply their phonics knowledge automatically when reading and spelling. The focus is on practising spelling rules, prefixes and suffixes, and reading and writing longer words, helping children improve fluency, accuracy, and confidence.