Phonics Hear the Sounds Game Phase 5

Teacher Specific Information

Encourage children to practise hearing phase 5 sounds in words by playing this phonics hear the sounds game. Children should look at the image and say all the sounds they can hear in the word out loud before turning the card to see if they are right.

This game features the following words with phase 5 sounds:

dolphin, girl, hay, glue, screw, boy, sauce, paw, whisk, tie, toe, cloud, pea, slide, note, gate and tube.

Development Matters

40 – 60 Months

(L-R19) Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together and knows which letters represent some of them.(L-R20) Links sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet. 

Early Learning Goal
(ELG9) Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.

National Curriculum

Year 1

  • Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words
  • Read accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar words containing GPCs that have been taught