Phonics Match

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    Listen for the sound!

    Tap the blue sound button to hear it, then pick the matching letter or spelling!

    Next: pick Easy, Medium or Hard!

    Read-aloud voice (grown-ups)

    Pick an accent and a female or male voice. You will hear a short sample each time you tap. This device then uses it for questions, Listen, and spelling.

    Choose a level. Phonics

    Tap a level to start - you can always try again!

    Easy

    Nice warm-up

    Medium

    A bit trickier

    Hard

    Go for it!

    About This Game

    Early reading practice focused on sounds and common letter patterns. Short rounds build decoding confidence for beginning readers.

    Top Tip

    Say the sound, not the letter name, when you are unsure.

    Skills You Are Practising
    • Phoneme awareness
    • Grapheme–phoneme links
    • Decoding
    • Listening discrimination
    In the real world

    Reading street signs, game instructions and chat messages all start with decoding. Phonics practice here is the engine under every later English game.

    For parents & teachers
    • Use the voice accent control if available.
    • Keep sessions to 5–10 minutes.

    Who it suits: Ages 5–8 (and catch-up for older beginners).

    Australian Curriculum v9.0

    This game practises these content descriptions. Tap a code to see its full wording and other games for it.

    • AC9EFLY10 (Foundation English) segment sentences into individual words; orally blend and segment single-syllable spoken words; isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single-syllable words (phonological awareness)
    • AC9EFLY11 (Foundation English) recognise and name all upper- and lower-case letters (graphs) and know the most common sound that each letter represents
    • AC9EFLY12 (Foundation English) write consonant–vowel–consonant (CVC) words by representing sounds with the appropriate letters, and blend sounds associated with letters when reading CVC words
    • AC9E1LY09 (Year 1 English) segment words into separate phonemes (sounds) including consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of words (phonological awareness)
    • AC9E1LY11 (Year 1 English) use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs to write words, and blend these to read one- and two-syllable words
    • AC9E1LY12 (Year 1 English) understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
    • AC9E2LY10 (Year 2 English) use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter/s) matches, including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, consonant clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllables, including compound words

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