Phonics Phase 3 Introducing x PowerPoint

An attractive, dyslexia friendly PowerPoint to introduce x, which includes simple interactive features, audio, and animations. The audio featured in this resource includes the correct pronunciation of the phoneme /k//s/ (x). This resource can be used by teachers to teach the letter x to their class or parents wanting to practice phonics with their child. Alternatively, this resource could be used by children to practice independently.

Learning Objectives:
* To recognise the grapheme x and say the phoneme /k//s/.
* To segment and blend x words for reading and spelling.
* To read and write a decodable sentence including x words.
 
This resource includes:
* Practice of some of the previous sounds taught including audio.
* A colourful sound and picture slide to introduce x, including audio of the correct pronunciation of the phoneme.
* Animated blending and segmenting slides including audio of the sounds and words.
* An interactive real and alien word game using words ending in x. (Good practice for the year 1 phonics check!)
* Spelling slides which give children a chance to sound out and spell simple words ending in x.
* A simple, decodable sentence to read and write (including audio).
 
Dyslexia friendly features: easily readable font, large font size, larger line spacing to improve readability, no use of underlining or italics, dark coloured text on a cream background

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