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English Year 3 Literacy Phonic & Word Knowledge

Understand how to apply knowledge of phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns

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40 resources

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    English Unit: Blending and Segmenting

    This unit is a must have for all Year 3 classrooms! As we know, teaching students how to identify and manipulate sounds in words (phonemic a...

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  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    English Unit: Multisyllabic Words

    Do you want to help your students identify the importance of knowing about syllables when it comes to reading and writing new words? Then th...

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  • Presentation Year: 3

    Blending and Segmenting - Presentation

    This presentation takes students through the strategies of blending and segmenting. It begins by introducing students to blending and how it...

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  • Presentation Year: 3

    Multisyllabic Words - Presentation

    This progressive presentation has been created to guide students through what syllables are, how to identify how many syllables are containe...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Irregular Verbs Adventure - Board Game

    Irregular Verbs Adventure is a full-colour board game designed to strengthen students' understanding and use of irregular verbs through play...

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  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Word Wizard

    This game contains 2 levels of difficulty. Level 1 asks the students to use their knowledge of phonemic awareness to identify the sounds...

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  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Super Segmenting

    This is a whole class oral segmenting game that can be used as a fun and simple warm up activity. Simply enter the words your class is focus...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Blending and Segmenting Screening Tool

    This formative assessment can be used to check for student understanding of phonemic awareness. Students are required to recognise that lett...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Tallest Tower ‘y’

    In this game, students need to work their way around the gameboard identifying which sound ‘y’ in making in the words. Depending on the soun...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Tallest Tower ‘ow’

    In this game, students need to work their way around the gameboard identifying which sound ‘ow’ is making in the words. Depending on the sou...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Tallest Tower ‘oo’

    In this game, students need to work their way around the gameboard identifying which sound ‘oo’ is making in the words. Depending on the sou...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Tallest Tower ‘ea’

    In this game, students need to work their way around the gameboard identifying which sound ‘ea’ is making in the words. Depending on the sou...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Be a Blending Boss - Year 3

    This series of worksheets encourages students to decode and blend a series of words, where two sounds are made by the same letter representa...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    What am I Made Of?

    This series of worksheets have been created to help students develop their phonological and phonemic awareness. With a focus on consonant di...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Sort the Sounds - Vowel Digraphs and Sounds

    This series of worksheets has been created to help students identify the different sounds letters and digraphs can make. Included in the set...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Sort the Sounds - Consonant Digraphs

    This series of worksheets has been created to help students identify the different sounds digraphs can make. Included in the set of workshee...

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  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Decoding and Blending Strategies - Notebook

    This colourful set of posters has been created as a visual reminder for students to use when decoding or blending during reading.   

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Blending and Segmenting - Student Reference Card

    This student reference card has been created to give students a simple overview of what the strategies of blending and segmenting mean. This...

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  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Word Wizard - Daily Warm Up

    This is a great way for kids to practise their segmenting and blending skills to create words using common spelling patterns. An excellent w...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Multisyllabic Words Assessment

    This formative assessment has been created to identify if students are able to use their knowledge of syllables to assist with segmenting an...

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  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Super Segmenting - Syllables

    This is a whole class oral segmenting game that can be used as a fun and simple warm up activity. Simply enter the words your class is focus...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Shipwrecked Syllables

    These fun and engaging boardgames are a great way for students to practise identifying and spelling multisyllabic words. The game includes t...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Divide, Roll and Read- 'r' controlled vowels

    Focusing on ‘r’ influenced vowels this activity is a great way to get students decoding multisyllabic words with a focus on ‘r’ controlled v...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Working With Syllables

    This fun and interactive activity is a great way for students to master a mixed bag of syllable types with a friend. Students will first seg...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Silly Syllables

    This crazy and engaging worksheet has been created to allow students to work with multisyllabic words… and have some fun! First students mak...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Missing Syllables

    These worksheets have been created to help students consolidate their understanding of syllables and how they can benefit students when spel...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Syllables with Sam and Sasha

    These worksheets have been created to have students consolidate their knowledge of how many syllables are contained in more complex words. T...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Say it, Pop it, Write it, Read it!- Syllables

    This fun resource has been created to help student practise segmenting more complex multisyllabic words.  Directions: Show students...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Sounding Out Syllables

    This resource has been created for students to utilise when spelling multisyllabic words. The template is perfect to use with the series of...

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  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    Phoneme Reference Chart

    This handy display has been created to help students become familiar with the 44 phonemes in spoken English. A fantastic guide for teachers...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Spelling Syllables

    This series of posters has been created for students to utilise when spelling multisyllabic words. The six posters guide students through br...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Finding Syllables

    This bright and engaging poster set has been created to provide students with a variety of strategies to hear the syllables in words. Once t...

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  • Resource Year: 3

    Multisyllabic Words - Student Reference Card

    This student reference card has been created to give students a simple overview of what multisyllabic words are. Included on the card is the...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Syllable Types - Poster

    This handy poster has been created to help students become familiar with the different syllable types. As they become more cognisant with th...

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  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Splitting Syllables - Poster

    This poster has been created to helps students understand how to identify the syllables in a word. Knowing the rules for syllable division c...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Word of the Week

    Put this display up in your classroom for daily reference. A great way to encourage spelling and vocabulary knowledge in your students.

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Word of the Day

    Put this display up in your classroom for daily reference. A great way to encourage spelling and vocabulary knowledge in your students.  

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Syllable Activity Cards

    A fantastic syllable resource that can be used in a variety of ways: Classroom Display – display the cards as a great classroom refere...

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  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +1

    Vowel Sounds Display

    This classroom vowel sound display is colour coded to feature common long vowel sounds and other vowel sounds that students will encounter r...

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  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Syllable Puzzles

    The syllable puzzles are a simple activity for students to complete. It's an activity that allows you to differentiate to your students' nee...

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