Phase 3: Week 4 Learning to Read AI, EE, IGH, OA Phase 3: Long Vowels

Welcome back! Phase 3, week 4 is here is to show you some new, fun, practical and educational ways to support your little reader to read and spell 3 new digraphs (2 letter sounds) and… A TRIGRAPH (3 letter sounds)!

week 4 phase 3 phonics activities for teachers and parents to do with kids — Hands-on activities for children to help them learn to read – this is week 4 of phase 3 of phonics introducing the digraphs oa, ai, ee, and oo and the trigraph igh

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Which Phase 3 letters and sounds are we learning this week?

This week will see us focusing on these sounds: AI, EE, IGH and OA.

Your child will need to learn the letter names like you say them when saying the alphabet (A, B, C) as well as the letter sounds they make when put together.

Which high-frequency words are we learning this week?

Our tricky or High-Frequency Words this week ‘was’ and ‘my’.

Don’t forget to include some of the previous week’s high-frequency words in your activities too. You can find a list of all of them or the different phases in one place in our High-Frequency and Tricky Word Lists.

What can we do with this week’s sounds?

salt tray writing of the letter K a simple way to help children practice letter formation — Using a salt tray to work on letter formation as children learn to read and write using phonics.

Sensory: salt/chalk/sand tray

building words on a washing line with children as they learn to read — Simple washing line to hang up phonemes and digraphs to help children to learn to read and spell.

Build a word: Washing Line

picture replacement activity for learning to read — Object and picture replacement activity for Phase 3 Week 4 of learning to read with phonics.

HFW/Sentence: Picture replacement

Don’t forget that any of the activities can be used each week so if your child has a favourite sensory letter or word building activity use those instead. It helps make the activities more familiar to them.

What words can I create?

Don’t forget to mix this week’s letters with those letters from previous weeks. That way, you can keep practising them and you can create a wider range of words.