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1 Let's look together
Say photo with your adult. The first sound is like the first sound in fish. In photo we write that sound with p and h together.
Read dolphin with your adult. Find ph inside the word. Two letters can work together to write one sound.
ph in photoph in dolphinf in fish
Look, point and talk with your adult.
2 Watch how I do it
My adult says photo. I point to ph, say its sound and read the whole word with help. A photo is a picture made with a camera.
3 Your turn
Find the two letters that write the fish sound in dolphin.
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Let's check together
ph. Listen to your adult say dolphin, then read it together.
4 Try it away from the page
Find ph on the photo and dolphin word cards. Say each word. Tell your adult one thing about a dolphin without needing to spell the whole explanation.
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Adult notes · prerequisites, safety and coverage
Ph represents /f/ in these examples, but do not replace f with ph in ordinary words such as fish. Longer words need known syllables and vowel correspondences; model and support them rather than demanding untaught decoding. 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.