Phase 3 Phonics x5 sets Match, cut, stick

What’s included?
x10 sheets (activity sheets with answers) for Phase 3 split into x5 activity sets. Portrait orientation, pdf format.

What’s it for?
This ‘Phase 3’ phonics practise activity set has been designed to be a simple, predictable activity to promote independence and consolidate learning. This activity is ideal for groups to be getting on with independently.

How to use it?
Each learner needs to cut out x12 ‘phoneme pictures’ and match x2 of these ‘phoneme pictures’ to every grapheme (printed on the left of each sheet). Dotted lines guide where to cut, though picture-squares could be pre-cut for those who struggle with cutting out.

Resource Details…
I split Phase 3 into five sets, one set per sheet.
I will list the answers here in case they are not obvious(!) …

Set 1
j - jeans, jigsaw (piece)
v - volcano, van
w - wall, window
x - box, fox (learners may need help with identifying that the ‘x’ sound is at the end of these two words)
y - yes, yellow
z - zip, zebra

Set 2 (‘zz’ is in the middle/end of words here and ‘ng’ is at the end)
zz - pizza, fizz
qu - queen, quarter
ch - chocolate, cheese
sh - shoe, shorts
th - thumb, three
ng - ring, wing

Set 3 (two different ‘oo’ sounds here might confuse some learners)
ai - train, rain
ee - sheep, bee
igh - night, light (bright also!)
oa - goat, road
oo - book, foot
oo - moon, spoon

Set 4
ar - star, shark
or - fork, corn
ur - burger, purse
ow - cow, owl
oi - oil, coin
ear - beard, ear

Set 5 (three sounds ‘ow’, ‘or’ and ‘ar’ are repeated from set 4 (using different phoneme pictures) to avoid leaving gaps and provide an opportunity to reinforce these sounds)
air - airport, chair
ure - picture, treasure
er - ladder, fingers
ow - brown, clown
or - anchor, fort
ar - guitar, car

Recommendations
I find a small, flat (shallow) container is helpful for each learner to have if a group are working on the same activity set at the same time (to stop cut-out pictures becoming muddled up). Each different set here is a different colour to help with this. However, if learners only cut out one picture at a time there shouldn’t be an issue with losing any pictures.

Adding the word labels (page 2, lower right side) is optional and best provided as an extension to this activity for more able/quick learners. I feel it is best, however, to complete the ‘phoneme/grapheme matching’ first (without word labels initially) to encourage learners to think about the sounds in each word more carefully.

Phase 2 matching activities (x4 sets) in same design is also available in my TES shop (also for free!) if you’d like to try those out…

Special request
ANY issues with any of this please don’t hesitate to let me know - I am happy to make changes AND I am happy to create a new resource if you have an idea just let me know - I’d love to hear from you! Feedback of this resource would be wonderful!! Thank you.