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Phase 3: Week 5 Digraphs – OO, AR, OR

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Another week, another set of sounds to expand your little reader’s mind! Phase 3, week 5 brings us a whole host of new digraphs, HFW and more wonderfully practical activities.

Phase 3 Week 5 activities for learning digraphs or, oo and ar
The digraphs or, oo and ar are introduced in Week 5 of Jolly Phonics Phase 3 try some of these activities to support your child as they learn to read

Which letters and sounds are we learning this week

This week will see us focusing on these sounds: OO, AR, OR

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 ‘no’ and ‘go’.

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?

sensory bag phonics games for learning to read
Sensory bag phonics game for support children to learn to read can they guess the phoneme just from feeling the shapes of the letters.

Sensory: bag

DIY Build a word dice game for learning to read using phonics
Use our dice to create your own phonics blocks to roll and build your own words with your child as they learn to read

Build a word: dice

Teaching your child to read HFW using post-it notes.
Using Post-it Notes to create sentences is a simple activity to support your child as they learn to read and write.

HFW/Sentence: post-it note sentence

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.

High-frequency and tricky words for children to learn as they learn to read

For ideas on the simple, HFW and tricky words you can create with the letters we’ve learned so far, please look at our word lists.

Helpful videos: OO, AR, OR

Watch this video to learn the Jolly Phonics song and action for ‘OO’.

The Read Write Inc images and formation verse for ‘OO’ are currently unavailable.

Watch this video to learn the Jolly Phonics song and action for ‘AR’.

The Read Write Inc images and formation verse for ‘AR’ are currently unavailable.

Watch this video to learn ‘OR’ with phonics.

The Read Write Inc images and formation verse for ‘OR’ are currently unavailable.

Work on any of the letters from Week 3 of Phase 3 Phonics

Review and work with all of the letters in Phase 2 Phonics as well as the common words

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