Spring Phonics Words List
Are you looking for a list of spring phonics words for your spring themed lessons? We’ve compiled the ultimate list of spring themed phonics words and organised them into different phases to make your life easier. (You can thank us later!)
Phase 2 Initial Sounds
Here is a list of spring themed phonics words to use with your children who are working at phase 2. These are not words that they will be able to read but words that they can identify and sort by the first sound in the word.
Initial Sounds
s – spring, sun, seed, season, sunshine
a- adapt, adventure, afternoon, alive
t- tadpole, tulip
p- puddles, polliwog
i- insect
n- nest, new
m- March, May, melt, mild
d- daffodil, daytime
g- grass, green, grow
o- orange
c- crocus, calf
k- kite, kid
e- egg, elements, enjoy
u- umbrella
r- rabbit, rain, rainbow, raincoat, robin, rebirth
h- hatch, hyacinth, heat
b- baby, birth, bloom, blossom, born, breeze, bud, bulbs, bunny, butterfly
f- flowers, foal
l- lamb, life
You can find our selection of phase 2 spring phonics worksheets, games and activities here:
Phase 2 Graphemes and Initial Sounds Pictures
Phase 2 Letter Formation and Handwriting
Phase 2 Words and Sentences
Spring Phonics Words: Phase 3
You’ll find a list of decodable, spring themed phase 3 phonics words here. All of these words are made up of phase 2 and phase 3 sounds so that your children will be able to read and write them. Some of these words will only be decodable once they are familiar with all of the sounds in phase 3.
Phase 3 Spring Themed Decodable Words
j- jump, jam
v- vest, vet
w- wind, wet, west, weed, wing, wool
x- fox, ox
y- yell, yet
z- zoo
zz- buzz, drizzle
qu- quick
sh- showers, sheep
ch- chill, chick
th- path, thorn
ng- wing
ai- rain, grain
ee- sheep
igh- light, bright
oa- coat, goat, croak
oo- bloom, food
oo- cook
ar- March, parts
or- born
ur- church
ow- flowers
oi- soil
ear- year
air- air
ure- picture
er- fern
You can find our selection of phase 3 spring phonics worksheets, games and activities here:
Phase 3 Graphemes and Pictures
Phase 3 Letter Formation and Handwriting
Phase 3 Words and Sentences
Spring Phonics Words: Phase 5
Here you will find a list of phase 5 spring themed words that your children will be able to read and write if they are learning phase 5 sounds. For some of these words, your children will have to know all of the phase 5 sounds to be able to read or write them.
ay- May
ea- heat, Easter, season, clean
ie- die
ou- sprout, cloud
oy- joy
ir- birth, shirt, bird
ue- hue, avenue, barbecue
aw- thaw
wh- whiskers
ph- dolphin
ew- new
oe- hoe
au- fauna
ey- parsley, valley
a_e- late, lake, wake
e_e- compete, evening
i_e- sunshine
o_e- tadpole, mole, stone
u_e- June
You can find our selection of phase 5 spring phonics worksheets, games and activities here:
Phase 5 Graphemes and Initial Sounds Pictures
Phase 5 Letter Formation and Handwriting
Phase 5 Words and Sentences
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