We had been sent a letter that told us we had to escape across the phonic swamp away from the fearsome pirates to the paradise island...my phonics group didn't need much persuasion and were soon thinking of ways to get through the phonic swamp.
The children wrote some phase five digraphs on the painted grid on the playground. They decided that the only way they could safely get across without sinking would be to jump from digraph to digraph calling out the sound they landed on and shouting a word that had the same digraph in it. This was very tricky as lots of the phase three digraphs with the same sound were also written in the swamp....oi/oy ....ai/ay ...ea/ey/ee . The children not only had to remember the sound but the rule that went with it.
They were superb of course and with help from their friends all of the children managed to escape through the swamp to the paradise island. There were cries ''Remember that is an end sound''...and ''That sound only comes in the middle of a word'' as children jumped their route across the swamp. The children could only jump to adjacent squares. We ended the phonics lesson with a race to the island.
Miss Sullivan
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