Week 14, lesson 1 Word Sort activity - Phonics Phase 5, unit 2 - Worksheet

In the initial lesson of Week 14 for Phonics Phase 5, Unit 2, children are provided with an engaging Word Sort activity. This exercise is designed to hone their decoding skills and enhance their understanding of phonemes. Working independently or collaboratively in pairs, students are tasked with reading a list of words and identifying the phoneme that corresponds to the grapheme within each word. The list includes words such as 'case', 'sound', 'measure', 'first', and 'treasure'. The objective is for the children to draw a line connecting each word to the correct phoneme or pictophone representation, thus reinforcing their phonemic awareness and grapheme-phoneme correspondence knowledge.

The activity sheet presents a practical, hands-on approach to learning, allowing children to visually associate the sounds they hear with the letter shapes they see in writing. This form of sorting activity not only aids in the consolidation of their phonics knowledge but also serves as an assessment tool for teachers to gauge each student's grasp of the concept. By engaging with words that have varying phonetic representations of the grapheme, children are encouraged to think critically about the sounds they encounter in their reading and to apply their phonics skills in a focused, yet enjoyable manner.