Hemingbrough Community Primary School

Key Information

Phonics Phase 5

In Phase 5 children are introduced to new graphemes for reading. Some of these graphemes represent phonemes (sounds) that they have already learnt a grapheme for. For example, in Phase 3 children were taught 'ai' as the grapheme for the phoneme /a/ (as in rain). In Phase 5, children are taught that the phoneme /a/ can also be represented by the graphemes 'ay' (as in play) or 'a-e' (as in make). This variation needs to be taught as it is common in our language system.

Phase 5 Teaching Overview

Click on each grapheme below to download a set of A5 flashcards with words containing this grapheme. Practise reading these with your child.

a-e

(as in came)

(as in Paul)

(as in saw)

(as in day)

e-e

(as in these)

(as in sea)

(as in stew)

(as in chew)

(as in money)

i-e

(as in like)

(as in girl)

o-e

(as in bone)

(as in toe)

(as in out)

(as in boy)

(as in Phil)

u-e

(as in June)

u-e

(as in huge)

(as in clue)

(as in due)

(as in when)