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1 Let's look together
Say kit with your adult. We hear the first sound in cat, but kit starts with k. Look at the i after it.
In these words, we use k before e, i or y for this sound. Read kept, kit and sky. Point to k and the letter after it.
k + e in keptk + i in kitk + y in sky
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2 Watch how I do it
I want to spell kit. I say its sounds. Before i, I choose k here: k-i-t. I read kit to check.
3 Your turn
Complete the word for the sky above us: s__y. Choose k or c.
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Let's check together
k: sky. The k comes before y.
4 Try it away from the page
Read kept, kit and sky with your adult. Circle k on each card, then point to e, i or y after it.
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Adult notes · prerequisites, safety and coverage
This is the Year 1 choice of k rather than c before e/i/y, not a claim that every /k/ has this spelling. Keep adjacent consonants distinct in skin/skip; sky has the /aɪ/ vowel spelling. Follow the child's taught phonics sequence. An adult models unfamiliar sounds, reads instructions and explains meanings. Revisit a few words at a time; do not guess 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.