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Phase 3

The purpose of Phase Three:

To teach another 25 graphemes, most comprising two letters (oa) so children can represent each of about 42 phonemes by a grapheme.
Children will continue to practise CVC blending and segmenting.
Children will learn letter names throughout this phase.
Children will learn the following sounds:

Set 6: j v w x

Set 7: y z zz qu

Children will learn 25 graphemes:

Graphemes	Sample words	Graphemes	Sample words
ch	chip	ar	farm
sh	shop	or	for
th	thin/then	ur	hurt
ng	ring	ow	cow
ai	rain	oi	coin
ee	feet	ear	dear
igh	night	air	fair
oa	boat	ure	sure
oo	boot/look	er	corner

Phase Three High Frequency Words checklist (Tricky words are in bold)

will	that	this	then	them	with
see	for	now	down	look	too
he	she	we	me	be	was
you	they	all	are	my	her

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