Our Orders of Sounds: Playing With Sounds
Each level of Phonics Hero practises: the sounds, reading, spelling, camera/tricky word reading and spelling, and sentence reading.
The levels are split into three parts, taking children through the 44 sounds of the English language: Basic Code, Advanced Code and Complete the Code.
Part 1 – Basic Code |
1 |
s m c t g p a o |
I, was, are, the, to, she |
2 |
r l d b f h i u |
day, a, today, of, he, for |
3 |
v w y z j n k e |
all, me, they, is, no, said |
4 |
ll ss ff zz |
you, this, my, play, come, have |
5 |
sh ch th wh |
like, says, going, do, what, give |
6 |
ck ng qu x |
away, look, once, see, very, we |
- A great foundation: the first 29 of 44 phonemes/sounds
- 228 fun, lively, unique games
- Read and spell over 350 words
- Read over 150 sentences
- 36 camera/tricky words
Part 2 – Advanced Code |
7 |
Words with a more complicated pattern VCC (Vowel, Consonant, Consonant) CCVC and CVCC words |
one, some, want, many, love, has |
8 |
ee ea y e |
people, live, brother, sister, house, where |
9 |
i igh y ie i_e |
her, out, there, about, his, down |
10 |
o oa ow o_e |
because, two, another, more, here, our |
11 |
a ai ay a_e |
friend, their, were, your, could, four |
12 |
oo ew ue u_e |
half, first, good, girl, saw, would |
- Watch spelling rocket with Part 2, using the 5 critical vowel digraphs and all the ways that these can be spelled
- 248 fun, lively, new unique games
- Read and spell over 250 new words (including Vowel Consonant Consonant, CCVC, CVCC words)
- Read over 150 new sentences
- 36 new camera/tricky words
Part 3 – Complete the Code |
13 |
r rr wr |
14 |
oi oy |
15 |
ph f ff |
16 |
ow ou |
17 |
c ce s se ss |
18 |
u oo oul |
19 |
ar a |
20 |
ir er ear ur or |
21 |
or au aw al ore |
22 |
air ear are ere |
23 |
j dge ge g |
24 |
ch tch tu |
25 |
sh ci ti |
26 |
s si |
- Part 3 covers the last remaining phonemes/sounds needed to complete the code
- 324 fun, lively, new unique games
- Read and spell over 456 new words
- Read over 376 new sentences