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1 Let's look together
Read pie with your adult. The i and e are next to each other and write one vowel sound here.
Say tie. Ie writes the same sound in this word. Keep the two letters together when you blend.
p + ie → piet + ie → tielie
Look, point and talk with your adult.
2 Watch how I do it
I blend p and the sound written ie: pie. I say, 'We shared a pie.' I point to both vowel letters.
3 Your turn
Which letters write the vowel sound in tie?
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Let's check together
ie. The letters are next to each other; this is not the split spelling in time.
4 Try it away from the page
Build pie and tie. Swap p for t and read again. Say a sentence using one of the words.
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Adult notes · prerequisites, safety and coverage
Teach /aɪ/ here, then the different ie correspondence in field in a separate session. Adult supports final consonant groups in cried/tried; these are reading examples, not an introduction to changing y before -ed. 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.