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Home » Primary Science » Key Stage 1 Science » Science and Literacy » Filter Paper Phonics

Filter Paper Phonics

Modified: Apr 5, 2016 · Published: Mar 26, 2016 by Emma Vanstone · This post may contain affiliate links · 1 Comment

My little 5 year old will be doing her Year 1 phonics test later this year so we’ve been trying to practise a little bit at home to support her learning at school. She was so excited when I pulled out this filter paper phonics activity, that I felt a bit guilty for not having done it earlier.

For younger or less able children this activity could also be done using just the sounds or phonemes or for recognising letters and numbers.

Filter paper phonics

Fun Year 1 Phonics Test Activity

Materials

Filter paper

Felt tip pens

Pipette

Water

Method

Write real and alien ( nonsense ) words on the filter paper. We used this phonics test download from Twinkl to find suitable words.

Ask the child to sound out the words and only drop water on the alien words.

Watch as the colours spread out through the paper.

 

phonics activity ideas

Year 1 phonics test

This activity an example of simple chromatography which is a technique used to separate mixtures. The water soaks through the filter paper carrying the ink mixture from the pens with it. Each pen colour is actually made up of different colour inks which spread out as they travel though the wet filter paper at different speeds.

Suitable for Key Stage 1 Literacy

Fun phonics activity

Contains affiliate links

Last Updated on April 5, 2016 by Emma Vanstone

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  1. Anna

    March 07, 2017 at 3:36 am

    Great idea! Can this activity be done with normal printing paper? If not, where did you get the filter paper from? Cheers!

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