Little Wandle Phase 6 Progression

Phonics

Irregular/ tricky

 words

 Phase 6 - Unit 1           

• Recap Phase 5 alternative graphemes           

• Recap Common Exception Words from Year 1 

• Introduction to adding –s and –es to make plurals 

• Reading with fluency and expression

door, floor, poor, because

 Phase 6 - Unit 2           

• Adding –ing, –ed, –er and –est to words ending in a single consonant after a short vowel (doubling the consonant)      

• e.g. hop → hopping, run → runner   

• Syllable rules for suffixes

find, kind, mind, behind, child

 Phase 6 - Unit 3           

• Dropping the final e when adding a vowel suffix:  

 – e.g. hope → hoping, like → liked      

• Introduction to spelling rules and root word awareness

every, great, break, steak, beautiful

 Phase 6 - Unit 4         

• Changing y to i when adding suffixes:         

 – e.g. happy → happier, cry → cried         

• Exceptions: words ending in –ing or proper nouns 

• Compound words (e.g. farmyard, airport)

climb, most, only, both, old

Phase 6 - Unit 5         

• Adding –ful, –less, –ly, and –ness to base words

• Teaching meaning change from suffix (care → careless, quick → quickly)         

• Sorting and classifying words

cold, gold, hold, told, everybody

Phase 6 - Unit 6         

• Homophones and near homophones (e.g. there/their/they’re, to/too/two)     

Phase 6 - Unit 7         

• Consolidation: all suffix rules, spelling strategies, CEWs         

• Dictation, editing, proofreading  

• Reading and spelling with fluency and automaticity

even, after, father, money, eye

(Review all tricky words; no new words introduced)