Phonics Resources

Printable Worksheets and activities to help learn and teach phonics

Sound Mats

Phonics Sound Mats for Phases 1 to Phase 5

Phonics Games

Online Phonics games and activities to help learn and teach phonics

Phonics Screening Check

Online Phonics games and activities to help learn and teach phonics

Story Time

Take ten minutes out and let our professional storytellers take you on an adventure! Browse our videos for stories suitable for all primary school ages.

Phonics at Redbridge Primary School

At Redbridge Primary School, we follow the newly accredited Essential Letters and Sounds to ensure consistent high quality phonics.

The five phases of the Essential Letters and Sounds document provides a structure for the teachers to follow and plan children’s progression. The teachers carefully adapt their planning to meet the needs of the children within their class. The teacher’s individual assessments will inform the rate at which the children are able to progress through the phrases and adapt their pace accordingly, offering “closing the gap” interventions immediately if required.

ELS: Phase 2 pronunciation

Essential Letters and Sounds or ELS is a synthetic phonics programme for learning to read. In this video you can hear the pronunciation of the phase 2 sounds.

ELS: Phase 3 pronunciation

Essential Letters and Sounds or ELS is a synthetic phonics programme for learning to read. In this video you can hear the pronunciation of the phase 3 sounds.

ELS: Phase 5 pronunciation

Essential Letters and Sounds or ELS is a synthetic phonics programme for learning to read. In this video you can hear the pronunciation of the phase 5 sounds.

Curriculum

Phase 1

• Environmental sounds
• Instrumental sounds
• Body percussion
• Rhythm and rhyme
• Alliteration
• Voice sounds
• Oral blending

Phase 2

• Oral blending
• Sounding out and blending with 23 new grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs)
• 12 new harder to read and spell (HRS) words

Phase 3

• Oral blending
• Sounding out and blending with 29 new GPCs
• 32 new HRS words
• Revision of Phase 2

Phase 4

• Oral blending
• Word structures – cvcc, ccvc, ccvcc, cccvc, cccvcc
• Suffixes
• Revision of Phase 2 and Phase 3

Phase 5

  • 22 new GPCs
  • 25 new HRS words
  • Alternative spellings for previously taught sounds
  • 49 new GPCs
  • 4 new HRS words
  • Oral blending
  • Revision of Phase 2, Phase 3 and Phase 4

Phonics Games

Oxford Owl | Blending quiz


Claire Russell suggests a fun and easy phonics game to help your child practise blending CVC words (like mat, cap, and man).

Oxford Owl | Find it, cut it, stick it!

Claire Russell shows us a fun way to help your child recognise alternative graphemes, by hunting for them in newspapers and magazines.

Phonics Screening Check

Story Time

The Bigfoot Mystery

Biff, Chip and Kipper visit a forest where they meet a mystery animal.

A Stage 4 story suitable for children ages 5–7.

The Strange Old House

Biff, Chip and Kipper visit a stately home to look for ghosts. A Stage 5 story suitable for children ages 6–8.

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