What's New

Minor Bug Fixes including fixing an issue with the DFES Video Guidance not playing on IOS9.

App Description

Whether you are a teacher who wants to use this App to enhance children’s learning alongside your letters and sounds sessions, or a parent who wants to support your child’s learning of phonics at home, this App has something for everyone!

This Twinkl phonics App is designed to support children in developing some of the key skills taught in Phase 3 of the DfES Letters and Sounds Document. Activities are presented in a fun, child friendly way (with lovely twinkl artwork) and covers the following:

Letter formation,
The graphemes taught in Phase 4 (including digraphs and trigraphs),
High frequency and tricky words for Phase 3.

Depending on whether you decide to unlock all the fab features of this app you will have access to the following features:

(b) Ability To Change The Background Colour For Text To Assist Children With SEN.
(b) A Fab Yes/No Activity.
(c) A Sentence Substitution Game.
(d) A Captions For Reading Game.
(e) A Twinkltastic Sentences For Reading Game.
(f) Full Circle Activity.
(g) An 'I Can' Book Maker.
(h) A Phoneme Board.
(i) A Customisable Sound Board.
(j) A Fab Assessment Tool With CSV Export.
(k) A Fab Balloon Popping Game For The Phase 3 Phonemes.
(l) A Fab Word Wall To Practice Spelling & Writing Words.
(m) Added Compatibility For The Original IPAD (IOS 5.1+).
(n) Video Guidance From The DfES regarding all Aspects Of Phase Three.
(o) British Audio For All Activities.
(p) Addition Of Cursive Script Option For Handwriting practice.

iPad Screenshots

(click to enlarge)

Twinkl Phonics Phase 3 Light Edition (Teaching Children British Phonics - High Frequency Words - Blending, Segmenting & Reading) screenshot 1 Twinkl Phonics Phase 3 Light Edition (Teaching Children British Phonics - High Frequency Words - Blending, Segmenting & Reading) screenshot 2 Twinkl Phonics Phase 3 Light Edition (Teaching Children British Phonics - High Frequency Words - Blending, Segmenting & Reading) screenshot 3 Twinkl Phonics Phase 3 Light Edition (Teaching Children British Phonics - High Frequency Words - Blending, Segmenting & Reading) screenshot 4 Twinkl Phonics Phase 3 Light Edition (Teaching Children British Phonics - High Frequency Words - Blending, Segmenting & Reading) screenshot 5

App Changes

  • June 05, 2014 Initial release
  • December 06, 2014 New version 2
  • April 22, 2015 New version 3
  • October 06, 2015 New version 4
  • October 28, 2015 New version 5
  • December 31, 2015 New version 6