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1 Let's look together
Listen to bread with your adult. Here, ea writes the vowel sound you hear in bed.
We have also met ea in sea. Bread and sea use the same letters, but their vowel sounds differ. Learn the sound in each word and read it again.
bread — headea in breadea in sea sounds different
Look, point and talk with your adult.
2 Watch how I do it
I point to ea in head. My adult says the vowel sound. I blend h, that sound, then d: head. I point to my head.
3 Your turn
Which has the same vowel sound as bread in this model: head or sea?
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Let's check together
Head. The ea in bread and head writes the bed vowel sound here.
4 Try it away from the page
Read bread and head with your adult. Put them together. Put sea in a different sound group. Read the words again tomorrow.
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Adult notes · prerequisites, safety and coverage
Model /ɛ/ in bread versus /i:/ in sea. Explain deaf respectfully, without treating a difference in hearing as a character flaw. Follow the child's taught phonics sequence. An adult reads the instructions, models the sounds and explains unfamiliar vocabulary. Revisit a few words over several days; do not guess words from pictures.
Read instructions aloud. Word-reading practice must match the child's taught sounds. The phonics pages support, but do not replace, the school's systematic synthetic phonics programme. Shared stories are adult-read unless the child can decode them. Re-read and practise daily.
Connect taught sounds and spellings for decoding.
Blend and reread words matched to taught sound-spelling knowledge.
Practise Year 1 spelling patterns, prefixes and endings.