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Phonics Year 2 scheme to follow

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BeachAndSea · 04/03/2026 16:07

Please can anyone recommend what they use to teach year 2 phonics to their children? My child is a free reader but I want to check they know them all. Not monster phonics please. Any website that has the order of them, even, is fine.

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Rainraingoawaydontcomeback · 04/03/2026 20:14

Different schemes do them in different orders.

Here is read, write inc order

https://www.tetney.lincs.sch.uk/_documents/%5B536133%5DRWInc_Letters_and_Rhymes.pdf

Brewtiful · 04/03/2026 20:19

If they are a fee reader and you just want to know if they know all the sounds then you don't need a scheme. There's plenty of lists online or flash cards you can buy/download to check they know the sounds.

This one is helpful. If you click on additional it allows you to put them on shuffle.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/26336.html

Speed Sounds complete list

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/26336.html

BeachAndSea · 05/03/2026 06:23

thank you!

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autumn1638 · 22/03/2026 04:27

Phonics play has all of the phonics planning on it. It’s not expensive and it has interactive games. I used it when I was teaching.

DrJump · 22/03/2026 04:42

I'd do toe by toe which is a bit dull but done pretty fast.

REDB99 · 22/03/2026 05:53

If your child is a free reader they don’t need phonics. Phonics programmes are designed to help children to learn how to read. Once they can read they don’t need phonics. Not sure why you would need to check what sounds they know if they are a free reader. They know all the sounds if they can read.

DrJump · 22/03/2026 07:05

Phonics programs should help a child decode (read) and encode (spell). I was a very advanced reader as a child but a terrible speller. Teaching my kids phonics has vastly improved my own spelling. I went through the whole language model of learning to read so there was an assumption I'd just learn to spell.

EDDadof3 · 23/03/2026 11:53

My Year 1 daughter was struggling with tricky words so I built trickywords.fun to help her practice.

It has all the phonics phases clearly organised (Phase 2-6) - there's a Browse mode where you can see the full lists by phase: https://trickywords.fun/browse-words

It has three game modes including Spelling and Word Search which work well for free readers as it's less babyish than the listen and pick audio game but still reinforces and helps practice recognition.

Phases 2-4 are free (174 words). Might help for checking what your daughter knows!

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