Level 5

Children will be taught new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes and graphemes they already know. They will begin to learn to choose the appropriate grapheme when spelling. The children will be automatically decoding a large number of words for reading by this point.

Tricky words:

oh	their	people	Mr	Mrs	looked
called	asked
water	where	who	again	thought	through
work	mouse	many	laughed	because	different
any	eyes	friends	once	please

New graphemes for reading:

ay day	oy boy	wh when	a-e make
ou out	ir girl	ph photo	e-e these
ie tie	ue blue	ew new	i-e like
ea eat	aw saw	oe toe	o-e home
		au Paul	u-e rule

By this level children should be reading words fluently and no longer be blending and segmenting familiar words.

The real focus throughout the level is to not only learn the new graphemes for reading but also to learn to read words with alternative pronunciations. Children also will need to learn alternative spellings for each phoneme.