Christmas words (and pictures) to sound out/match (Phases 2&3)

What’s included?

This download includes x6 sheets, portrait orientation, pdf format. For sounding out x8 words made up of Phase 2 and 3 sounds, matching these with the x8 images. All items included are designed to stand up.

What’s it for?

This resource has been designed to be an interesting activity for learners to engage in independently to consolidate their knowledge of Phase 2 and Phase 3 sounds. Learners are to sound out the words, looking at the graphemes printed on the 'word cards' and match these words with the corresponding ‘stand up character/picture cards’. There are x8 words and x8 images to read and match.

Who’s it for?

This resource has been designed for Early Years children who have been learning these sounds for the first time, pupils in Year 1 who need some practise/reinforcement of these sounds as well as older learners needing to revisit these sounds who would enjoy this Christmas themed activity.

Resource Details…

Each word card has a coloured triangle (top, left). Pink indicates these words are using Phase 2 sounds. Purple indicates that these words use Phase 3 sounds. Red graphemes indicate that these sounds might be more tricky as different people can pronounce these sounds differently. E.g. the ‘er’ in the word ‘cracker’ may be pronounced as an ‘uh’ or even an ‘a’ sound. Learners may need support with the red graphemes.

All images/words included in this resource have been chose because they can be sounded out - the ‘tick’ pictured on the coloured (pink/purple) triangle indicates that these words can be sounded out. These colour coded details are also included on the resource.

Words included are:

Phase 2 Words

• elf
• robin
• Santa

Phase 3 Words

• cracker
• tree
• nutcracker
• snowman
• pudding

Important message…

Any issues please let us know - we are happy to make changes.