SCHEME

New August Scheme updates:

Stages 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5 and have all received a visual improvements.
Stage 2 has a new objective covering words ending in -ly, which updates the word list for Step 30.
Stage 3 content has been improved to align with the rest of the scheme.
Stage 6 has been reordered. Please see our 2025 MTP for changes.

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Resources

Stage 1 - Lesson 1 - Words ending with ‘ff’, ‘ll’, ‘ss’, ‘zz’ and ‘ck’ FREE

Stage 1 - Lesson 2 - Words with the /k/ sound spelled ‘k’ and the ‘nk’ spelling pattern FREE

Stage 1 - Lesson 3 - Words with the ‘tch’ trigraph

Stage 1 - Lesson 4 - Adding ‘-s’ or ‘-es’ to make plurals

Stage 1 - Lesson 5 - Adding the suffixes ‘-ing’ and ‘-ed’

Stage 1 - Lesson 6 - Words with the prefix ‘un-’ and the suffixes ‘-er’ and ‘-est’

Stage 1 - Lesson 7 - Compound words and words with unstressed vowels

Stage 1 - Lesson 8 - Words with the digraphs ‘ai’ and ‘oi’

Stage 1 - Lesson 9 - Words with the digraphs ‘ay’ and ‘oy’

Stage 1 - Lesson 10 - Words with the split digraph ‘a_e’

Stage 1 - Lesson 11 - Words with the split digraph ‘e_e’

Stage 1 - Lesson 12 - Words with the split digraph ‘i_e’

Stage 1 Lesson 13 words with the split digraph 'o_e'

Stage 1 Lesson 14 words with the split digraph 'u_e'

Stage 1 Lesson 15 words with the digraph 'ar'

Stage 1 Lesson 16 words with the digraph 'ee'

Stage 1 Lesson 17 words where the digraph ‘ea’ makes an /ee/ sound

Stage 1 Lesson 18 words where the digraph ‘ea’ makes an /e/ sound

Stage 1 Lesson 19 words words where the digraph ‘er’ is stressed

Stage 1 Lesson 20- Words where the digraph 'er' is unstressed at the end of words

Stage 1 Lesson 21- Words with the digraphs ‘ir’ and ‘ur’

Stage 1 Lesson 22- Words where the digraph ‘oo’ makes an /oo/ sound

Stage 1 Lesson 23- Words where the digraph ‘oo’ makes an /u/ sound

Stage 1 Lesson 24- Words where the digraphs ‘oa’ and ‘oe’ make an /oa/ sound

Stage 1 Lesson 25- Words where the digraph ‘ou’ makes an /ow/ sound

Stage 1 Lesson 26- Words where the digraph ‘ow’ makes an /ow/ or /oa/ sound

Stage 1 Lesson 27- Words ending in ‘y’/ee/ or ‘ve’/v/

Stage 1 Lesson 28- Words with the digraphs ‘ue’ and ‘ew’

Stage 1 Lesson 29- Words where the digraph ‘ie’ makes an /igh/ sound

Stage 1 Lesson 30- Words where the digraph ’ie’ makes an /ee/ sound

Stage 1 Lesson 31- Words with the trigraph ‘igh’

Stage 1 Lesson 32- Words with the digraph ‘or’ and trigraph ‘ore’

Stage 1 Lesson 33- Words where the digraphs ‘aw’ and ‘au’ make an /or/ sound

Stage 1 Lesson 34- Words with the trigraphs ‘air’ and ‘ear’

Stage 1 Lesson 35- Words where the trigraphs ‘ear’ and ‘are’ make an /air/ sound

Stage 1 Lesson 36- Words with the digraphs ‘ph’ and ‘wh’