Week 5, lesson 1 Onsets All Aboard - Phonics Phase 3 - Worksheet

In the fifth week's first lesson of the Phonics Phase 3 program, young learners are presented with an engaging worksheet designed to reinforce their understanding of onset sounds. The worksheet, titled 'Onsets All Aboard', serves as a bonus revision tool to help solidify the foundational skills acquired in previous lessons. The objective is simple yet effective: children are tasked with matching various images to the correct letter(s) that represent the onset sound of each image's corresponding word.

The worksheet focuses on four specific onset sounds, namely 'sh', 'ch', 'th', and 'z'. These sounds are foundational in the English language and are often some of the first digraphs (a combination of two letters producing one sound) that children learn. By drawing lines from pictures to the appropriate onset sound, students practice their phonemic awareness and enhance their ability to recognize how words are constructed. This activity not only reinforces their phonics knowledge but also aids in developing their early reading and spelling skills.