PHONICS
PHONICS
Phonics forms the foundation of reading and writing proficiency, equipping learners with
the ability to decode words, comprehend text, and express their thoughts effectively. This
Phonics Scheme of Work has been meticulously designed to cater to the developmental
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PHONICS 2-3 YEARS
Week 13 Closing
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WEEKS PHONICS 2ND TERM
Week 13 Closing
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WEEKS PHONICS 3RD TERM
Week 13 Closing
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PHONICS 3-4 YEARS
Week 12 Examination
Week 13 Closing
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WEEKS PHONICS 2ND TERM
Week 10 Reading skills and sentence formation using two letter words.
Week 12 Examination
Week 13 Closing
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WEEKS PHONICS 3RD TERM
Blending 3 letter words with short vowel CVC ‘o’ (od, og,
Week 5 on, op,
ot, ox) using pictures, objects and flashcards.
Blending 3 letter words CVC with short vowel ‘u’ (up, ub,
Week 6 ud, un,
um, ug, ut, us)
Week 12 Examination
Week 13 Closing
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PHONICS 4-5 YEARS
Mid-term Break
Week 7
Week 13 Examination
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WEEKS PHONICS 2ND TERM
Week 1 Arrival and revision of cv, vc, cvc, ccvc, cvcc words.
Introducing words with the long A sound (ai, ay, as, in,
Week 2 pain,
pay)
Introducing words with the long E sound (ea, ee, ey, ie,
Week 3
as, in, pea, seed, key, field).
Introducing words with the long I sound (y, ie, igh, as, in,
Week 4
cry, die, light)
Mid-term Break
Week 7
Introducing words with the long u sound (ue, ui, ew, oo,
Week 8
as, in, blue, fruit, dew, pool)
Week 13 Examination
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WEEKS PHONICS 3RD TERM
Week 13 Examination
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PHONICS 5-6 YEARS
Week 13 Examination
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WEEKS PHONICS 2ND TERM
Week 5 Introducing silent letters ‘m’ before ‘b’ and ‘t’ before ‘e’
Week 8 Introducing silent letters ‘h’ after ‘w’ and ‘w’ before ‘r’
Introducing silent letters ‘g’ before ‘n’, ‘l’ before ‘k’ and ‘l’
Week 9 before
‘f’
Week 13 Examination
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Week 1 Arrival and revision
Week 5 Contractions
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PRIMARY ONE
FIRST TERM
S/N TOPICS OBJECTIVES
Week one Short a Worksheet
Reading – Hats and caps
Sight words
Week two Short e Words to know
Reading – less the hen
Sight words
Week three Short i Words to
know Jim is
six
Sight words
Week four Short o Words to know (activities)
Reading – lot’s job
Sight word
Week five Short u Words to know
(activities) Reading –
bud the bug
Sight words
Week six Long A Words to know
SECOND TERM
Activities
Week three Long U Words to
know
CVCC
words
Short u – long
Week four Long E Words to
know Long E
– Short e
THIRD TERM
S/N TOPICS OBJECTIVES
Week one Digraph ‘oi’ & ‘oy’ Words to know
Week two Digraph ‘ee’ & ‘ea’ Words to know
Week three Digraph ‘ai’ & ‘ay’ Words to know
Week four Final y
Week five Digraph ‘ew’ & ‘ue’
Week six ASSESSMENT
Week seven MIDTERM BREAK
SECOND TERM
S/N TOPICS
PRIMARY THREE
FIRST TERM
S/N TOPICS
THIRD TERM
S/N TOPICS
SECOND TERM
S/N TOPICS
PRIMARY FIVE
FIRST TERM
S/N TOPICS
THIRD TERM
S/N TOPICS
Week one Possessive
AIM:
‘To develop reading and writing
skills across the school’
GUIDANCE FOR USE
Practitioner should judge the point at which their class and individual
children should begin the programme
Select ten words a day to work with; teaching children how to put
sounds together to make words; going from left to right (encoding)
Together as a class use each word in a sentence. Children can then read these
independently later
SPELLING LIST
Reception (phase 2)
1. ad 2. ag 3. am 4. an 5. ap 6. at 7. ut 8. c
bad bag am an cap at but Can
dad gag dam can lap bat cut cap
had nag ham fan ma cat gut cat
lad rag jam man p fat hut cod
ma sag ram pan nap hat nut cot
d tag yam ran rap mat rut cup
pad wag Sa van tap pat cut
sad m Dan zap rat car
Pa sap sat
m yap
pigs
rot
the to I no go into
Tricky
words
Reception: Phase 3
1. ck 2. ck 3. 4. ill 5. ff. ft 6. ss 7. 8.
all, bl, fl cl,
ell pl
Back Lock ball bill cliff hiss black Clap
pac rock call fill sniff kiss bless cliff
k sock fall hill stiff miss blob click
rack duck hall kill huff bless block cling
sack luck tall mill puff dress blot clip
kick muc wall pill stuff less flag cloc
lick k bell sill off mess flap k
pick suck fell till drift press flat clot
sick tuck hell will gift cross flick club
tick sell lift acros flip plan
dec tell swift s flock plot
k well left mos plum
nec yell soft s plug
k fuss pluck
pec
k
hang
tramp snip walk mast handba fund rang ring
g
limp snu stalk fast land crept sang sing
dump g belt brass sand kept long sling
jump spa felt class wind slept song sting
lump n melt glas windmill swept hung swing
plump spat smel s bend wept lung wing
trumpe spill t halt gras end sung
t
spin salt s lend
spit pass mend
spell ask
spot
spun
1. –a –e 2. –a –e 3. –i -e 4. –i –e 5. – o –e 6. – o e
mad Shade tide Smile coke broke
e brake wide stile joke broken
cage flake bike while poke choke
page shake hike chime woke smoke
cake flame like crime hole spoke
lake sham time slime dom spoken
make e fine shine e woken
take plane line spine home stone
care grape mine fire cope throne
cam shape pine hire hope close
e plate wine shire pope those
gam grave pipe spire rope chose
e shave wise tire hose chosen
name slave bite wire nose froze
sam care kite alive roe frozen
e fare size drive vote
date share wise live
gate squar inside prize
late e
mate stare
gave
save
wave
south
Year 1: Phase 4
pike windmill
19. ful 20. less 21. ness 22. er 23. er 24. est
boastful ageless bravenes brighter baker brightes
s t
25. plural 26. ing 27. ing 28. ing 29. d 30. ed
addresses burning crying closing disused assorted
angles counting drying driving grumbled battled
bubbles discoverin frying hoping surprised crowded
churches g prying joking included disobeye
diseases disturbing trying liking juggled d
farmers drawing applying lining displeased displease
flowers filtering carrying making replaced d
horses frightening denying naming disabled disturbed
houses gleaming hurrying poking misbehave flawed
markets hurting marrying saving d refused frightene
murderer murmuring replying scraping decoded d marked
s nights parking relying shaking stroked murdered
nurses renewing scurrying sliding dawdled powered
parks returning supplying smiling served sorted
puppets starting tidying smokin turned
shirts streaming varying g surround
streams throwing stroking ed
surprises watering taking discovere
working timing d started
revisited
tuning
using
waving
Before, four, head, once, only, their, two, were
31.
Irregular
Above, animals, brought, change, different, during,
32. earth, eyes,
Irregular
(LH) friends, great, heard, important, laugh, people,
suddenly, sure, swimming, tries, world, young
Tricky Oh their people Mr Mrs looked called asked could
words
Year 3 Consolidate all spelling from Key stage 1– Learn
all high and medium frequency words.
6. qu 7. c 8. c 9. g 10. oi, oy
quality cinema face giant choice
quantity circle palace ginger voice
quarter circuit place giraffe rejoice
queen circular race general avoid
queer circus space genius spoil
quench citizen surface gentle spoilt
query city trace geometry toilet
questio cease dice gym ointment
n quick cell ice damage joint
quiet cellar nice danger point
quirk cemen price angel appointment
quit t cent rice digest disappoint
quiver centipede slice emergenc anoint
y
quiz centre spice energy noise
quote centurion twice engineer poison
squabbl century chanc energy annoy
e square certain e engineer convoy
squash cycle dance imagine destroy
squeak cyclist pencil intelligent employ
squeal cyclone decide legend enjoy
squeeze cygnet recite magic voyage
cymbals register
stranger
tragic
feather refrain
weather remain
leather repair
threate straight
n traipse
heaven
heavy
21. ily 22. er 23. ier 24. iest 25. ing Insert
H/MFW
tries
secretary
separate
signature
temperatur
e
valuable
vegetable
auditory
13. ary 14. able 15. ible 16. ly 17. al 18. ally
anniversar adorable accessible accurately accidental accidentall
y advisable audible anxiously comical y actually
centenary agreeable credible arguably critical annually
dictionary avoidable destructible conscientiousl electrical automatica
estuary capable edible y definitely eventual l ly
February breakable flexible entirely exception
January changeable horrible immediately al fatal brutally
library comfortable impossible inaccurately coincident
military disposable indestructib inconsideratel final al ly
missionary employable le invincible y indecently individual
logical critically
necessary enjoyable legible insensitively
magical equally
ordinary fashionable possible insignificant
medical eventually
primary identifiable responsible insincerely
musical exceptiona
revolutiona inexcusable reversible necessarily
national ll y
ry salary manageable sensible patiently
secondary miserable susceptible secretively natural
fatally
secretary noticeable terrible separately normal
finally
stationary portable visible strangely occasiona
logically
summary probable sufficiently l original
magically
voluntary reliable surreptitiously ornament
mechanica
al
ll y
remarkable suspiciously personal
medically
practical
mentally
replaceable regional musicall
y
respecta sensational naturally
bl e several normally
sociable traditional occasionall
valuable y originally
vegetabl personally
e physically
practically
traditionall
y
19. fully 20. ment 21. plurals 22. ing 23. d/ed 24.
lling/led
beautifully achievement accidents accelerating accepted appalling
carefully advertisement amusements arranging acquired cancelling
cheerfully amusement anniversaries concentrating acquitted controlling
forgetfully arrangement antibiotics damaging answered excelling
gratefully document apprenticesh disembarking calculated labelling
ip
hopefully employment s dissolving disadvantage levelling
d
painfully encourageme businesses escaping disappeared patrolling
nt
powerfully enjoyment championshi evaporating disappointed quarrelling
p
respectfully environment s excelling discontinued rebelling
skilfully excitement consequence exciting disqualified shovelling
s
spitefully government exclusions exclaiming dissatisfied signalling
successfully management excursions exercising dissolved totalling
thankfully movement government including escaped travelling
thoughtfully ornament management manufacturin excelled tunnelling
g
truthfully replacement movement noticing exclaimed cancelled
usefully statement ornament orienteering exploded labelled
wonderfully replacement persuading inquired marvelled
shrieked
Year 5
technology vacancy
refraction
13. ssion 14. ie 15. cei, sc 16. ous 17. trans, bi 18. foreign
admission achieve ceiling adventurou transaction aerobatics
s
aggression belief conceit carnivorous transatlanti aerobics
c
depression believe deceive dangerous transfer aerodrome
discussion brief perceive enormous translate aerodynami
c
expression chief receive fabulous transmit aeronaut
impression field receipt generous transparent aeroplane
mission fiend conceited herbivorous transport aerosol
oppression fiery scenario humorous bicentenary aerospace
passion friend scene jealous biceps octagon
percussion grief scenery luminous bicycle octahedron
permission lie science marvellous bifocal October
possession mischief scientist miraculous bigamist octogenaria
n
procession niece scissors mischievou bilingual octopus
s
profession piece conscience nervous bimonthly aquaplane
progression pier ominous binoculars aquarium
shriek ridiculous
siege scrupulous
sieve tempestuou
s
thief vigorous
19. gk prefixes 20. ic 21. ly 22. suffixes 23. 24. plurals
suffixes
telegraph angelic accurately biology beautiful calculators
telepathy athletic conceitedly geology delightful characters
telephoto atomic consequentl physiology doubtful competitions
y
teleport electric correctly zoology fanciful directions
television energetic dangerously genocide pitiful exhibitions
autograph epidemic friendly insecticide plentiful ghosts
autobiography gigantic incorrectly suicide resentful investigation
s
automatic heroic negatively brotherhood respectful mechanics
autopilot historic positively childhood sorrowful musicians
autopsy horrific prematurely fatherhood successful professors
metallic quickly knighthood thoughtful reflections
Children should:
Spell familiar words correctly and employ a range of strategies to
spell difficult and unfamiliar words
SECOND TERM
WEEKS TOPICS
Week one Settling/revision
Week two Intonation(question)
Week three Intonation (listing, Wh)
Week four Naming countries
Week five Dicta (Incorrect/correct expressions)
Week six Naming Professions
Week eight Role play on professions
Week nine Reading Pattern
Week Ten Reading Drive Competition
THIRD TERM
WEEKS TOPI
CS
Week One Settling in
Week two Days of the week\months
Week three Casual week
Week four Naming food and fruits
Week five Naming animals
Week six Counting numbers (one,
two)
Week eight Spelling pattern 1
Week nine Spelling pattern 11
Week ten Spelling bee competition
THIRD TERM
WEEKS TOPICS
Week one Settling in
SECOND TERM
WEEKS TOPICS
Week One Random Mispronounced words
Week Two Syllables (Tetra Syllabics)
Week Three Casual Week (Clothing vocabularies)
Week Four Stress Labelling I
Week Five Stress Labelling II
Week Six Phrasal Verbs
Week Eight Spelling Pattern 1
Week Nine Spelling Pattern II
Week Ten Spelling Competition
THIRD TERM
WEEKS TOPICS
Week One Random Mispronounced words
PRIMARY FIVE
FIRST TERM
WEEKS TOPICS
Week One Letters of the English Alphabet
THIRD TERM
WEEKS TOPICS
Week One Revision