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1 Let's look together
Sometimes two letters work together to show one sound. In ship, s and h work together: sh.
Ship has four letters but three sounds: sh-i-p. Keep sh together when you blend. Your adult will model each new sound.
sh — shipch — chipth — thinng — sing
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2 Watch how I do it
I read sh-i-p. I do not read s and h separately here. I push the three sounds together: ship.
3 Your turn
In chip, which two letters work together at the start?
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Let's check together
ch. Blend ch-i-p to read chip.
4 Try it away from the page
Practise one pair at a time with an adult. Read ship/chip and sing/ring when ready. Listen to th in thin and then in this.
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Adult notes · prerequisites, safety and coverage
Teach sh,ch,th,ng separately before comparison. Th has voiced/unvoiced sounds; ng in sing is one phoneme. This is a revisitable lesson, not a four-pattern introduction in one sitting.
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.