Real decoding rather than guessing. The wrong answers are real words that differ from the right one by a single sound, so a child who reads only the first letter picks “cap” for “cat” and finds out.
Grade 1 · medium
Sound out each word. Tick the one that matches the picture.
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Difficulty is a real change to the numbers or the layout, not a label.
The first letter changes — cat, hat, mat.
The middle vowel changes — cat, cot, cut. The hardest single swap at this age.
Any position changes, with four words to choose between.
Tap a grade you can use for a page of everything a child that age can practise here.
Consonant–vowel–consonant words are where phonics turns into reading. Three sounds, each spelled by one letter, blended left to right: cat, sun, big, hop. There are no exceptions to argue about and nothing to memorise, so a child who knows the letter sounds can genuinely work them out.
The moment a child reads one of these unaided is the moment reading stops being something adults do. It is worth a lot of practice.
Most children who stall here can produce all three sounds in isolation — c, a, t — and cannot push them together into a word. The fix is usually to say the sounds faster and closer together, rather than to drill the letters again. Start with sounds that can be stretched — m, s, f — before the ones that stop dead, like t and k.
If that is where your child is, keep the pages short. Four words read properly beats twelve read by guessing.
Short vowels are the sounds children confuse most. A child who is guessing from the first and last letter alone cannot tell cat from cot.
Yes, always. Nonsense distractors have their place in assessment, but on a printed sheet they read as typos.
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