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1 Let's look together
Listen to field. In this word, ie writes the ee sound you hear in see.
Compare pie with your adult. Ie sounds different there. The letters alone do not give one sound in every word, so learn and revisit each example.
field — chiefie in fieldpie has a different sound
Look, point and talk with your adult.
2 Watch how I do it
I read field after my adult and point to ie. A field is an open area of land. I say, 'We walked beside the field.'
3 Your turn
Does the ie in chief match field or pie in this model?
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Let's check together
Field. Chief has the ee vowel sound in the model.
4 Try it away from the page
Read field, chief and pie with your adult. Put the first two together because their modelled vowel sounds match.
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Adult notes · prerequisites, safety and coverage
Model /i:/ here and support adjacent consonants. Explain each word, including grief sensitively; allow an alternative example if a child has recently experienced loss. Piece/niece have additional spellings to model. 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.