What we practise, in order

Click Confident is a practice companion, not a replacement for your school’s phonics programme. This is the order we practise in, unit by unit from Grade R to Grade 3. It follows the order most programmes teach in, so teachers, therapists and parents can match it to what a child is learning now.

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PractisedEach sound and spelling pattern is practised one at a time, with sound buttons for reading and sound boxes for spelling, plus a short reminder of how it works.

ReviewedDaily warm-up mixes earlier sounds and the child’s own tricky words; heart words from earlier units are reviewed before new ones and come back on a spaced schedule.

CheckedEnd-of-unit check: sounds, real and alien words, heart words, a sentence and spelling (80% to move on). Timed re-read (practised) and a new unseen passage with a question.

Phonemic awarenessPractised in every lesson and always linked to letters: blending sounds to read (Read it) and segmenting words into sounds to spell (Write it).

Oral languageEvery session ends with Think it and Talk it: questions that check understanding, explaining, retelling and word meanings.

Unit	Practised: sounds and patterns	Heart words	Funny sounds
RFirst sounds (Grade R)	Letter sounds in 7 groups: s a t p; i n m d; g o c k; ck e u r; h b f l; j v w x; y z qu letter formation (tracing) first blending and spelling of 2–3 sound words	–	–
1Short vowels	a i o e u	the, to, I, no, go, he, she, we, me, be, was, you	–
2Digraphs	ck ll ss ff sh ch th ng wh	they, are, my, said, have, like, so, do, some, come, one, what	o says u (love, come, some)
3Blends	l-blends r-blends s-blends end blends	were, there, out, little, could, would, should, your, old, put, all, call	w makes a say o (was, want, wash)
4Vowel teams	ai ay ee ea igh oa ow oo oo ow ou oi oy aw au	water, where, who, again, thought, through, work, many, any, watch, because, people	ea and ai can say e (bread, head, dead)
5Split digraphs and more	a–e i–e o–e u–e ie ue ew ph	once, friend, school, pull, full, push, eyes, busy, both, move, half, love	Wild old words (find, kind, child)
6Bossy r	ar or er ir ur air ear	door, floor, poor, find, kind, mind, child, wild, climb, most, every, great	a says ar (fast, grass, bath) w makes or say er (work, word, world)
7Endings	-s -es -ing -ed -er -est	behind, only, cold, even, break, pretty, sure, hour	The lazy vowel (schwa) (about, sofa, lemon)
8Suffix rules	doubling drop the e y to i -ful -less -ly -ness	beautiful, whole, money, father, grass, plant, everybody, steak	–
9Prefixes	un- re- dis- mis- pre- compound words	answer, build, caught, early, enough, heart, island, guard	–
10Bigger suffixes	-er (person) -ment -able -tion	learn, minute, often, promise, special, though, weight, quarter	–

Alongside: listening games (optional)

Short audio games for hearing sounds in spoken words, with picture answers and no reading. Children can dip in at any point; they aren’t a hurdle before phonics.

Stage	What children practise
🔎 0A	First sounds: find, match and spot the odd one out
🔎 0B	Last sounds: find, match and spot the odd one out
🔎 0C	Middle sounds, and where a sound is in a word
🤖 0D	Robot talk (blending spoken sounds) and counting the sounds in a word
🪄 1A	Take a sound away (clock without /k/)
🪄 1B	Add a sound or change the first sound (cat to hat)
🪄 1C	Change the middle or last sound, sound chains and blends

Every unit also includes decodable stories, practice pages, a word search, a timed re-read and heart words. Units 7–10 build words from parts (morphology). Funny sounds are the less common ways letters behave, also called alternative pronunciations, including the schwa (the “lazy vowel”).