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Year 1 · English

Phonological Awareness

Year 1 learners practise blending and segmenting sounds phonics.

The activities include Blend Sounds, Blend Sounds in Alien Words, Decode New Words, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, teaching, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Blend Sounds
  • Blend Sounds in Alien Words
  • Decode New Words
  • Distinguish Between f and th
  • Find the Phonemes
  • Identify Final Phonemes
  • Identify Initial Phonemes
  • Identify the Phonemes
  • Identify Vowels
  • Investigate Sounds: ea and ou
  • Investigate Sounds: ow and ie
  • Know How to Blend Sounds to Read Alien Words
  • Know the Sound: a to i
  • Know the Sound: j to r
  • Know the Sound: s to z
  • Practise Blending Sounds
  • Practise Blending Sounds to Read Alien Words
  • Practise Finding the Phonemes
  • Practise Segmenting Words
  • Practise Using Phonemes to Read Simple Words
  • Read Familiar Words
  • Recognise Rhyming Sounds 1
  • Recognise Rhyming Sounds 2
  • Recognise Rhyming Sounds 3
  • Recognise Rhyming Sounds 4
  • Recognise Rhyming Sounds 5
  • Recognise Rhyming Sounds 6
  • Recognise Sounds
  • Recognise the Phonemes
  • Segment Words
  • Understand How to Segment Words
  • Use Phonemes to Read Simple Words
  • Use Phonic Skills to Decode New Words
  • Use Vowels to Spell Words
  • Work Out New Words

Checked learning resources

  • Phase 1 Phonics Lesson 7: Blending and Segmenting Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    KS1-ready video explicitly models combining individual speech sounds to read words and separating words into sounds for spelling.

  • Phase 1 Phonics Lesson 4: Rhythm and Rhyme Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Age-appropriate phonics video teaches pupils to hear and recognise matching end sounds in rhyming words.

  • Phase 2 Phonics

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    KS1 phonics teaching introduces letter-sound correspondence, oral blending and segmenting for reading and spelling simple words.

  • Phonics Activity Mat Pack 3

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Phase 2-5 activity mats practise decoding unfamiliar words by recognising graphemes and blending their phonemes.

  • Phase 3 Phonics

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    KS1 phonics teaching develops digraphs, trigraphs, blending, segmenting and accurate reading of words containing Phase 3 graphemes.

  • Phonics Screening Levels 2-5 Real and Alien Words Interactive Display Pack

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Interactive KS1 teaching models how to blend grapheme-phoneme correspondences in unfamiliar pseudo-words without relying on meaning.

  • Mock Phonics Screening Check Resource Pack

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Year 1-style practice includes real and pseudo-words for applying blending to unfamiliar letter strings.

  • Level 4 Decodable Words Booklet

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Decodable word practice applies phonics to unfamiliar words containing adjacent consonants and taught long-vowel sounds.