Phase 2 sounds
Reception, autumn
- s☀️sun
- a🍎apple
- t⛺tent
- p🐷pig
- i🐞insect
- n🥜nut
- m🗺️map
- d🐶dog
- g🎁gift
- o🐙octopus
- c🐱cat
- k🔑key
- ck🦆duck
- e🥚egg
- u☂️umbrella
- r🐰rabbit
- h🎩hat
- b🚌bus
- f🐸frog
- ff🦒giraffe
- l🦁lion
- ll🔔bell
- ss👗dress
Phonics sound mats
Every sound of a phase on one page, each with a picture word, like the sound mats schools send home. Keep one beside homework, or on the fridge.
Phase
Print in
One page, 23 sounds. Vowel sounds are in red, as on most school sound mats.
How to use a sound mat
Point to a sound and say it together, then the picture word: “sh, ship”. Say the sound, not the letter’s name, and keep it short: “mmm”, not “muh”.
When your child is writing and gets stuck on a sound, ask them to find it on the mat rather than telling them. Looking it up is how the spelling sticks.
Each mat has the sounds of one phase, in the order Letters and Sounds teaches them, which most schools in England follow or something close to it. Phase 4 adds no new sounds: children blend the ones they know into longer words, like frog and tent.
More to print
- Printable
Phonics flash cards
The same sounds as cards, from one to a page for the classroom wall to eight to cut out.
- Worksheets
Phonics and CVC worksheets
Match words to pictures and write the missing sounds.
- Worksheets
Sound buttons worksheets
Split words into their sounds.
- Games
Phonics games
Hear each sound said clearly by Thena, and find its letters.
Reading starts with sounds.
In Thena’s lessons every sound is said clearly, and children tap, blend and read with her, at their own level.
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