Phase 2 Phonics

Little Wandle-aligned Phase 2 phonics resources

Engage Pupils with Our Phase 2 Phonics Resources Aligned to the Little Wandle Progression

Teaching phonics in Reception? Our engaging Phase 2 phonics resources are designed to support the progression of Little Wandle, helping pupils build a strong foundation in early reading. While we are not affiliated with Little Wandle, our resources align with its structure, giving teachers a valuable toolkit for delivering effective phonics lessons.

Our Phase 2 phonics materials include everything you need to reinforce phonics learning in a way that’s structured, engaging, and accessible. We’ve carefully created a range of printable and interactive resources that follow the same order of progression, ensuring consistency with what pupils are learning in school. Whether you’re a Reception teacher, a teaching assistant, or a home educator, these resources will help make phonics learning enjoyable and effective.

What’s Included in Our Little Wandle-aligned Phase 2 Phonics Resources?

Our comprehensive range of Phase 2 phonics resources covers all aspects of early phonics teaching. Designed to complement daily phonics lessons, they provide a variety of activities that support blending, segmenting, and recognising letter-sound correspondences.

Here’s what you can expect:

– Engaging Little Wandle-aligned Flashcards – Perfect for whole-class teaching, group work, or one-to-one sessions, our flashcards introduce new sounds in line with the Phase 2 sequence.
– Letter Formation Sheets – Help pupils develop confidence in handwriting with our letter formation activities, designed to reinforce correct letter shapes while practising phoneme recognition.
– Little Wandle-aligned Blending and Segmenting Activities – A key part of phonics learning, our resources include games and worksheets that encourage pupils to blend sounds together to read words and segment words into sounds for spelling.
– Little Wandle-aligned Decodable Word Cards – These cards focus on words that pupils can decode using their Phase 2 phonics knowledge, helping to build fluency and confidence in reading.
– Phase 2 Guided Reading – Short, engaging sentences and stories using Phase 2 sounds, giving pupils opportunities to apply their phonics knowledge in context.
– Interactive Activities – Digital and printable resources designed to reinforce learning in an interactive way, making phonics sessions more engaging.
– Tricky Word Support – Activities to help pupils recognise and read tricky words, ensuring they develop a broad range of reading skills.

Why Choose Our Little Wandle-Aligned Phase 2 Phonics Resources?

We know that consistency is key when it comes to phonics. Our resources align with the Little Wandle Phase 2 progression, ensuring that pupils are practising the right sounds at the right time. This makes it easier for teachers to reinforce learning and for pupils to build confidence as they progress.

Here’s why our Phase 2 phonics resources stand out:

– Structured to Support Progress – Our resources follow the sequence of Phase 2 phonics, making it easy to integrate them into existing lesson plans.
– Time-Saving for Teachers – Ready to print and use straight away, our materials help teachers deliver high-quality phonics sessions without hours of preparation.
– Child-Friendly and Engaging – We use clear, age-appropriate visuals and fun activities to keep pupils motivated.
– Perfect for Differentiation – With a variety of activities to suit different learning styles and abilities, our resources support every pupil’s progress.
– Useful for Home and School – Whether you’re a teacher, tutor, or parent, these resources can be used to reinforce phonics learning in different settings.

Support Early Reading Success

A strong start in phonics is essential for reading success, and our Phase 2 phonics resources provide the structured support pupils need. By reinforcing key phonemes and blending skills in a way that’s engaging and effective, these materials help pupils grow in confidence as they develop their reading ability.

Explore our full range of Phase 2 phonics resources today and make phonics learning simple, engaging, and aligned with the progression of Little Wandle—without the need for additional planning.

We are not affiliated with Little Wandle in any way.

Use our phase 2 phonics resources to help your class make progress in phonics with our tried and tested phase 2 phonics ideas that we know genuinely work.  Within our phase 2 phonics resources we have a range of phase 2 phonics worksheets, to provide additional opportunities for children to practise their letter formation, and write simple CVC words. Start each session by going over previously learned phase 2 GPCs with our phase 2 flashcards. All of our phase 2 phonics resources are aligned with the DfE Letters and Sounds framework.

Phase 2 tricky words

Use our phase 2 tricky word cards as phase 2 flashcards to help children learn to read tricky words. What are tricky words? Tricky words are words that cannot be completely decoded, or can’t be decoded at all, at the stage of phonics learning the child is at. They need to be learned by sight, as they crop up regularly in reading texts and captions. It’s really important that children learn to read phase 2 phonics tricky words, and quite often, the best way to teach them is by using phase 2 tricky words flashcards. Another great way to learn tricky words is with our phase 2 tricky words rainbow activity, where children simply repeat the writing of each tricky word across a rainbow picture.

Phase 2 activities

You can help children with their phase 2 blending skills using these phase 2 caption cards – simply hold the card up in front of your class and word through blending each phoneme into the next one to form a word. Another way to encourage children to blend, is through phase 2 phonics games, such as this phase 2 caption and word matching activity. Have out in your provision area and encourage children to work in pairs to match the picture with the correct caption.

What is taught in phase 2 phonics?

In phase 2, the GPCs (grapheme, phoneme correspondences) are taught in sets, and are in the following order:

The 6 tricky words in phase 2 are: ‘I’, ‘no’, ‘the’, ‘to’, and ‘go’.