Phonics flash cards
Every sound with a picture word, and every tricky word, as big as you like: one to a page for the classroom wall, or eight to cut out for home.

6 pages, printed sideways (landscape). Cut along the dashed lines.
Ways to use them
Quick-fire sounds
Hold up a card and say the sound together, not the letterβs name: βsssβ, not βessβ. A few minutes at the start of a lesson keeps every sound fresh. Print them without pictures once children know the sounds well.
On the wall
One to a page makes a display children can see from their seats. Put up each sound as itβs taught, so the wall grows with the class.
At home
Eight to a page fits a pack in a pocket. Lay three cards out and ask your child to find the one you say, then swap: they say, you find.
Tricky words
Read a tricky word together, then point to the part thatβs tricky: the e in βtheβ. Children learn that part by heart and sound out the rest.
More to print and play
- Printable
Phonics sound mats
Every sound of a phase on one page, with a picture for each.
- Worksheets
Phonics and CVC worksheets
Match words to pictures and write the missing sounds.
- List and game
Tricky words
Every tricky word phase by phase, with a game to learn them.
- Games
Phonics games
Hear a sound and find its letters, then blend sounds into words.
Teaching a class? Every worksheet prints as a class set, each copy different.
Reading starts with sounds.
In Thenaβs lessons every sound is said clearly, and children tap, blend and read with her, at their own level.
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