Phonics and morphology lesson packs for teachers

Download free systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) and morphology lesson packs, written by literacy specialists for Foundation to Year 2 students. Save time with ready-to-use, succinct lessons that support students to develop phonemic awareness and reading and spelling skills.

These classroom slides (with teacher notes) and printable student sheets are:

aligned with the general capabilities in the Australian Curriculum Reading and Viewing sub-element Phonic knowledge and word recognition (Levels 3-8)
aligned with the Literacy Hub phonics progression
consistent with the Literacy Hub phonics instructional model, morphology instructional model and explicit instruction principles.

As you know your students best, you can adapt and edit these resources to meet the needs in your classroom.

At a glance

How to use these lesson packs

Use the lesson packs by following these steps:

Download the lesson pack for each phase.
Teach each lesson using the lesson slides and student sheet.
Once you have taught all lessons in the phase, support your students' fluency using the decodable resources.
Assess student progress using the progress monitoring tools.

Assessment

To inform your teaching, monitor student progress using the PDF progress monitoring tool for that phase, available in each lesson pack download.

To analyse the results of your progress monitoring, download the progress monitoring tracker spreadsheet, which can hold data for all 24 phases.

Accessibility and inclusion

The lesson pack slides follow Website Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) AA for colour contrast and alternative text; they can also be read by a screen reader.

If students with low vision are struggling with the grey font on the student sheets, edit the file to darken the text colour. Students can then complete the activity on a printout, or on a device by tracing over the letters with their finger.

The slides and student sheets can be edited to match a font for your jurisdiction or sector or a font that meets your students' accessibility needs.

The lesson packs can be used across tiers of intervention, in whole-class, small-group or one-on-one settings.

For more information on inclusion, visit student learning support.

SSP professional learning

These evidence-based lessons follow a systematic synthetic phonics approach. If you’re new to this area, you might like to find out more about how to teach these lessons through the Literacy Hub’s professional learning topics.

The font used in these lesson packs requires Microsoft 2022 (or later). If your system is older, the font may not appear as intended. In this case, you may like to change the student-facing letters to the font recommended by your local jurisdiction or sector.

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Phase 1

Lesson | Name | Irregular words

1.1

s says /s/

1.2

a says /a/

1.3

t says /t/ | I

1.4

p says /p/ | a

1.5

i says /i/ | is

1.6

n says /n/ | the

Download Phase 1 lesson pack

Phase 2

Lesson | Name | Irregular words

2.1

m says /m/

2.2

e says /e/

2.3

h says /h/ | my

2.4

r says /r/ | to

2.5

d says /d/ | do

2.6

o says /o/ | has

Download Phase 2 lesson pack