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1 Let's look together
Say happy with your adult. Clap two beats: hap-py. The last letter is y. Here it writes a vowel sound.
Now read sunny. It also ends in y. Listen to the last sound. Y can do a different job from its first sound in yes.
hap-pysun-nyfun-nyy at the end
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2 Watch how I do it
I read happy after my adult. I point to its final y and listen to the ending. I say, 'I feel happy today.'
3 Your turn
Which letter writes the last vowel sound in funny?
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Let's check together
y. Say funny after your adult and listen to the ending.
4 Try it away from the page
Read happy, sunny and windy. Point to the final y. Tell your adult which word could describe today's weather.
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Adult notes · prerequisites, safety and coverage
The unstressed final vowel varies between /i/ and /ɪ/ across accents. This is not initial /j/ in yes or /aɪ/ in my. Support syllables and other correspondences; family may have different numbers of spoken syllables. Follow the child's taught phonics sequence. An adult reads the instructions, models the sounds and explains unfamiliar vocabulary. Revisit a few words over several days; do not guess words from pictures.
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.
Connect taught sounds and spellings for decoding.
Blend and reread words matched to taught sound-spelling knowledge.
Practise Year 1 spelling patterns, prefixes and endings.