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What is this resource and how do I use it?
Support your child to prepare for the phonics screening check with this week of workouts. Encourage
them to complete a short activity each day which will help them to recognise a variety of graphemes.
This pack focuses on ‘c’ as in ‘cell’, ‘oo’ as in ‘book’, ‘ea’ as in ‘head’ and ‘g’ as in ‘gem’.

What skills does this practise?
Phonics Knowledge
Reading
Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondence
Further Activity Ideas and Suggestions
You might like to play this Phase 4 Buried Treasure Phonics
Game with your child to make learning really fun. This Phase
2 to 5 Phonics Mat Poster would be great to display in your
home. Our Phonics Level 5 Parent Pack has a useful glossary
and ideas for supporting your child..

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Phonics Screening Check Week of Workout
‘c’, ‘oo’, ‘ea’ and ‘g’

Test your phonics skills with this week of workouts! This booklet
focuses on a few different graphemes that all make different
sounds. These are ‘c’ as in ‘cell’, ‘oo’ as in ‘book’, ‘ea’ as in ‘head’
and ‘g’ as in ‘gem’.
You will need to cut out the word cards at the back of this booklet to
help you with these activities.
Use this timetable to record your progress: tick or add a sticker or
smiley face when you’ve completed each day’s activity.

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

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Monday
Remarkable Reading
Use the word cards. Shuffle them and then ask an adult to show you
one word at a time. Read each word. Make a pile of any you find
tricky. Now, go through these tricky words again. Write a list of any
that were tricky here

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Tuesday
Real or Not?
Shuffle the cards. Read each one aloud and decide if it is a real word
or a nonsense word. Write the real words here:

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Wednesday
Snap!
Use your word cards. Ask an adult to help you to take out the
nonsense words as you won’t need them for this game. Shuffle the real
word cards well and play a game of Snap with one or more people.

Instructions
1. Deal out the cards, face down.
2. Pick up your cards in a pile and hold them in cell
your hand, but do not look at them.
3. Decide who will start.
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4. Take it in turns to lay a card on the table, face

up. Make sure you read each word!
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5. When one person lays a word card using the
same grapheme, shout “Snap!” as quickly as twin
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possible! For example, you might both lay

down a word that uses ‘oo’ (e.g. ‘book’ and
‘look’). The first person to shout “Snap!” wins
those cards and places them at the bottom of acid
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6. Continue playing until one person has won all

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of the cards.

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Thursday
Wormy Words
Find the words in the word chains inside the worm. Highlight or put a
ring around the words you find.

nc efeelcircu

s
ui ssh

rd
ow
city

ca
ce
q

sky
scra efa
perdicegam

Words containing the ‘c’ grapheme:

k in gcl osefo
lo o

k
otb

oo
alls
hoo
kb
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kne
tsco o c ro
re go o d f l a me n

Words containing the ‘oo’ grapheme:

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 k fa sttabler
ead

t
ea

ea
r y fo
rth

sw
b eda a d
ywe
ather n ste
sunshinei

Words containing the ‘ea’ grapheme:

ce gemruntot

ce
ui heg

sli
ym
ma

ke
a
j

gich rc
atw n g e
andgiantgi

Words containing the ‘g’ grapheme:

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 Friday
Word Detective
Read the paragraph. Underline any words using the graphemes ‘c’,
‘oo’, ‘ea’ and ‘g’. Write them in the correct columns underneath.

The weather in the city was icy cold. Gemma looked at the footprints
she was leaving in the snow behind her. Her face was warmed
by her scarf and her head kept cosy by her hat. Gemma took the
turn past the wooden fences and stepped onto her street. A gentle
ginger cat trotted over to her and circled around her legs. She was
almost home!

oo

ea

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Saturday
True or False?
Read each sentence. Decide if it is true or false. If it is true, give it a
tick. If it is false, give it a cross.

Humans eat books for breakfast.

Footballs are made from cement.

The roads can get icy when the weather is cold.

Visiting the gym is good for your health.

You have to build a city using bread.

I can clean my face using a sponge.

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 Sunday
The Great Grapheme Hunt
Now it’s time to be a detective! Use any written material you have at
home - reading books, comics, recipe books, cards, game instructions
- anything! Hunt for the graphemes ‘c’, ‘oo’, ‘ea’ and ‘g’. When you
find a word, write it in the correct box. Give yourself a point for
every word you can find. Perhaps you can time yourself, or make it a
competition at home to see who finds the most? Good luck!

c oo ea g

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Answers
Tuesday
Real or Not? Real or Not?
Real words: Nonsense words:
• cell • nucin
• instead • sheab
• acid • ceg
• health • pleak
• ice • cerdle
• deaf • chead
• circus • dace
• sweat • meask
• circle • cuby
• breakfast • sheag
• city • oce
• gem • gat
• face • cikent
• gentle • gink
• cement • wice
• magic • linergy
• book • swook
• giant • strungy
• look • plook
• gym • nogic
• took • prood
• ginger • wigant
• shook • thoof
• energy • ligot
• good • sploosh
• spongy • giln
• crook • clook
• wood • zook
• football • voot
• head • glead
• bread • realsh
• weather • vead

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Thursday
Wormy Words

nc efeelcircu
ui ssh

s
rd
ow
city

ca
e
q

sky a c
scra e f
perdicegam

in g c l o s e fo o
ok tba

ok
llsh
ook

bo
k
lo

net o
scor
e go o d f l a m e n o c ro

kfasttablerea

t
a

ea
re dyf
orth

sw
eda d
b

y we s t ea
athersunshinei n

ge m r u n t o t
ce

ce heg
ui
sli

ym
ma
ke

a
j

gi c r c
hat
w a n d gi a n t gi n g e

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 Friday
Word Detective
The weather in the city was icy cold. Gemma looked at the footprints
she was leaving in the snow behind her. Her face was warmed by her
scarf and her head kept cosy by her hat. Gemma took the turn past
the wooden fences and stepped onto her street. A gentle ginger cat
trotted over to her and circled around her legs. She was almost home!

ff city icy face fences circled

ll looked footprints took wooden

ss weather head

zz Gemma gentle ginger

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 Saturday
True or False?

Humans eat books for breakfast. false

Footballs are made from cement. false

The roads can get icy when the weather is cold. true

Visiting the gym is good for your health. true

You have to build a city using bread. false

I can clean my face using a sponge. true

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nucin ceg cerdle dace

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circle city face cement

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cuby oce cikent wice

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swook plook prood thoof

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good crook wood football

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sploosh clook zook voot

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glead realsh vead sheab

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health deaf sweat breakfast

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pleak chead meask sheag

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gat gink linergy strungy

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gym ginger energy spongy

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nogic wigant ligot giln

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