Phonics Week

One page for a week of synthetic phonics, the way Letters and Sounds, Little Wandle and US phonics programmes teach it. The week's sounds come first, to say and trace, each with a picture that has the sound in its name. Then words to read, with sound buttons under them: a dot under a letter that makes a sound on its own, a dash under two or three letters that make one sound, and a curved link under a split digraph such as a-e in cake. The words are split by the sounds the child knows that week, so sheep is sh-ee-p. The week's tricky words follow, and a strip finishes the page: join words to pictures, write each picture's word one sound to a box, or read a word and draw it. Type the week's sounds, its words and tricky words, or leave the words empty and the page picks pictures the child can already read.

Age

ages 3–7

Answer key

Included, free

Skills

phonicsreadingletter soundsspelling

What you can change

• Last part

  Auto, Join, Sound boxes, Read and draw, None

• Words to read

  3–15 words

• Marks under the words

  Auto, Sound buttons, Syllables, None

• Call them

  Tricky words, Sight words

• Trace the sounds

• Picture for each sound

  Any picture, This week's words, None

• Tracing

  Print, Cursive

• Cursive model

  The book's language, Portugal, Brazil, Spain, France, Italy…

• Every page also takes the book's language, page size, theme and pictures.