PhonicsYear 1Phase 4 – Adjacent Consonants & Clusters

CVCC words

Read and spell CVCC (consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant) words with final adjacent consonants: milk, help, tent, pond, best, jump, hand, soft

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Let's build a word like 'hand'. First, say the sounds: h-a-n-d. 🖐️

  2. 2

    How many sounds does 'hand' have?

  3. 3

    Build the word 'hand' by dragging the sounds into the right order.

  4. 4

    Let's build 'milk' together. 🥛

  5. 5

    Now build 'tent' — listen for all four sounds. 🏕️

  6. 6

    Which word has four sounds?

  7. 7

    Build the word 'pond' by blending its sounds. 🐸

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