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5 outdoor phonics lessons for phase 3 phonics

Phase 3 - oo/oo, ar, or, ur, er

These phase 3 phonics lesson plans are perfect to break up your phonics teaching throughout the week and taking them outdoors. Getting the children up, moving and exploring will engage any children who might find phonics challenging and the style of our activities mean that you can still provide challenge for you most able readers too. 

Lesson Plans

Long oo

Activities included in this lesson are ‘the noisy words game’, ‘oo or OO’ and a scavenger hunt. Watch your children light up as they move around your outdoor space whilst practising their segmenting and blending with the ‘oo’ sound.

Learning objective:

To blend to read words with the long ‘oo’ sound.

To segment to spell words with the long ‘oo’ sound.

Short oo

Activities included in this lesson are ‘duck, duck, alien’, ‘word hopscotch’ and chalk writing. Watch your children light up as they move around your outdoor space whilst practising their segmenting and blending with the ‘oo’ sound.

Learning objective:

To blend to read words with the short ‘oo’ sound.

To segment to spell words with the short ‘oo’ sound.

ar

Activities included in this lesson are ‘the car game’, ‘bounce and blend’ and ‘partner spelling’. Watch your children light up as they move around your outdoor space whilst practising their segmenting and blending with the ‘ar’ sound.

Learning objective:

To blend to read words with the ‘ar’ sound.

To segment to spell words with the ‘ar’ sound.

or

Activities included in this lesson are ‘magic word game’, ‘noughts and crosses’ and ‘charades’. Watch your children light up as they move around your outdoor space whilst practising their segmenting and blending with the ‘or’ sound.

Learning objective:

To blend to read words with the ‘or’ sound.

To segment to spell words with the ‘or’ sound.

ur

Activities included in this lesson are ‘act it out’, ‘cops and robbers’ and ‘chalk writing’. Watch your children light up as they move around your outdoor space whilst practising their segmenting and blending with the ‘ur’ sound.

Learning objective:

To blend to read words with the ‘ur’ sound.

To segment to spell words with the ‘ur’ sound.

er

Activities included in this lesson are ‘real or alien’, ‘giant bingo’ and ‘jump-write’. Watch your children light up as they move around your outdoor space whilst practising their segmenting and blending with the ‘er’ sound.

Learning objective:

To blend to read words with the ‘er’ sound.

To segment to spell words with the ‘er’ sound.

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