Week 29, lesson 1 Word Sort activity - Phonics Phase 5, unit 3 - Worksheet

In the Week 29, Day 1 Phonics Phase 5, Unit 3 lesson, children are introduced to a Word Sort activity that focuses on distinguishing between different graphemes that represent the same phoneme. This exercise is part of their worksheet and is designed to help them understand the variations in spelling that can produce the same sound. The task requires the children to identify and categorize words based on the grapheme used for the phoneme in question.

The worksheet presents a list of words that all contain the phoneme represented by the letter 'r', but each word uses a different grapheme to represent this sound. The words provided are 'care', 'wren', 'wrong', 'hurry', 'marry', 'rabbit', 'ranch', and 'lorry'. Students are expected to sort these words into three groups according to whether they use 'r', 'rr', or 'wr' to denote the target phoneme. By writing the words under the correct heading, children can visually see the different graphemes and practice their phonics skills, reinforcing their understanding of how phonemes can be represented in various ways within written English.