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1 Let's look together
Point to a toe. Read toe with your adult. The o and e are next to each other and work together.
Now listen to goes. Oe writes the same vowel sound here. The s at the end has a z sound in this word.
t + oe → toeg + oe + s → goesoe letters stay together
Look, point and talk with your adult.
2 Watch how I do it
I blend t and the vowel sound written oe: toe. I read 'one toe' and point to one of my toes.
3 Your turn
Which two letters write the vowel sound in toe?
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Let's check together
oe. They are next to each other, unlike o and e in home.
4 Try it away from the page
Build toe with letter cards. Read it. Add s to make toes after your adult has taught that ending.
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Adult notes · prerequisites, safety and coverage
Oe is uncommon. Foe/woe need explicit meaning support; do not demand independent unfamiliar vocabulary. Goes has final /z/. Does is not an example of this vowel correspondence. 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.