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 2 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.
New graphemes taught in Phase 5:
| a-e (as in came) | ir (as in girl) |
| au (as in Paul) | o-e (as in bone) |
| aw (as in saw) | oe (as in toe) |
| ay (as in day) | ou (as in out) |
| e-e (as in these) | oy (as in boy) |
| ea (as in sea) | ph (as in phonics) |
| ew (as in chew)** | u-e (as in June)*** |
| ew (as in stew)** | u-e (as in huge)*** |
| ey (as in money) | ue (as in clue) **** |
| i-e (as in like) | ue (as in due)**** |
| ie (as in pie) | wh (as in when) |
* / ** / *** / **** / ***** These graphemes can all respresent more than one sound. Often the differences are quite subtle but they are there.
