Phonics Picnic

Program

Letters and Sounds

14 steps

Words by phase and set, from Phases 2 to 6.

Phase 2

5 steps
  1. Step 1s a t p7 words
  2. Step 2i n m d50 words
  3. Step 3g o c k60 words
  4. Step 4ck e u r180 words
  5. Step 5h b f ff l ll ss299 words

Phase 3

4 steps
  1. Step 6j v w x70 words
  2. Step 7y z zz qu32 words
  3. ch sh th ng201 words
  4. ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er1,310 words

Phase 4

1 steps
  1. Adjacent consonants589 words

Phase 5

3 steps
  1. New graphemesay ou ie ea oy ir ue aw wh ph ew oe au a-e e-e i-e o-e u-e477 words
  2. Other sounds of known graphemes327 words
  3. Other spellings of known sounds443 words

Phase 6

1 steps
  1. Suffixes2,126 words

Steps follow Letters and Sounds: Principles and Practice of High Quality Phonics (DfES, 2007). The book gives no week for each Phase 3 vowel digraph or Phase 5 grapheme, so each of those is one step.

Phonics Picnic is original work, lined up with the order of Letters and Sounds (2007), Crown copyright, used under the Open Government Licence. It is not made or endorsed by the Department for Education.