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 lesson plans that support students to develop phonemic awareness and reading and spelling skills.   

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

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:

  1. Download the lesson pack for each phase.
  2. Teach each lesson using the lesson slides and student sheet.
  3. After teaching each lesson, teach the corresponding upper-case letter as a mini-lesson. (Phases 1-5 only)
  4. Once you have taught all lessons in the phase, support your students' fluency using the decodable resources.
    You can also download a Word document of all the decodable resources for the phases released so far, in one file.
  5. Assess student progress using the progress monitoring tools.

View the Literacy Hub's webinar recording for a detailed explanation of how to use the lesson packs.

Assessment

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

You can also download a PDF of the progress monitoring tools for all 24 phases in one file.

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. 

Technical pointers
  • 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.
  • When you download the lesson packs, a zip file will appear in your downloads folder. Unzip or extract the files before using them to ensure they display correctly. 
  • The lesson pack files have been developed to be used in the application version of Microsoft Word or PowerPoint; if you view them online in your browser, formatting and fonts will not display correctly.

For technical assistance, contact your school's IT support team. 

Download lesson packs

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
Phase 3
Lesson | Name | Irregular words
3.1
f says /f/
3.2
c says /k/
3.3
b says /b/  |  he
3.4
g says /g/  |  me
3.5
l says /l/  |  was
3.6
u says /u/  |  said
Download Phase 3 lesson pack
Phase 4
Lesson | Name | Irregular words
4.1
k says /k/
4.2
ck says /k/  |  of
4.3
v says /v/
4.4
y says /y/  |  love
4.5
z says /z/  |  like
Download Phase 4 lesson pack
Phase 5
Lesson | Name | Irregular words
5.1
w says /w/
5.2
j says /j/  |  they
5.3
q says /kw/  |  are
5.4
x says /ks/  |  you
Download Phase 5 lesson pack
Phase 6
Lesson | Name | Irregular words
6.1
Short vowel sounds  |  one  your
6.2
Long vowel sounds  |  she
6.3
Open/closed syllables: one-syllable words  |  what
6.4
Suffix -s (noun)
Download Phase 6 lesson pack
Phase 7
Lesson | Name | Irregular words
7.1
ff says /f/  |  where
7.2
ll says /l/  |  there
7.3
ss says /s/  |  here
7.4
zz says /z/  |  saw
Download Phase 7 lesson pack
Phase 8
Lesson | Name | Irregular words
8.1
sh says /sh/  |  put
8.2
th says /th/  (unvoiced)
8.3
ch says /ch/  |  because
8.4
wh says /w/  |  once
8.5
ng says /ng/  |  want
8.6
th says /th/  (voiced)
8.7
Suffix -es (noun)
Download Phase 8 lesson pack
Phase 9
Lesson | Name | Irregular words
9.1
a_e says /ā/  |  who
9.2
i_e says /ī/  |  write
9.3
o_e says /ō/  |  were
9.4
u_e says /ū/  |  school
9.5
e_e says /ē/
9.6
u_e says /ōō/
9.7
Suffix -s/-es (verb)
Download Phase 9 lesson pack
Phase 10
Lesson | Name | Irregular words
10.1
Closed syllables: two-syllable words
10.2
Open syllables: two-syllable words
10.3
Open and closed syllables: two-syllable words  |  walk talk come some
10.4
Suffix -ing (verb)
Download Phase 10 lesson pack
Phase 11
Lesson | Name | Irregular words
11.1
ai and ay say /ā/ | does
11.2
ee says /ē/ | all
11.3
oa and ow say /ō/ | their
11.4
igh says /ī/ | goes
11.5
Suffix -ed
Download Phase 11 lesson pack
Phase 12
Lesson | Name | Irregular words
12.1
compound words
12.2
y says /ī/ could should would
12.3
y says /ē/ | two
12.4
Suffix -y
Download Phase 12 lesson pack
Phase 13
Lesson | Name | Irregular words
13.1
ea says /ē/, /e/ and /ā/
13.2
ew says /oo/ and /ū/ | word work
13.3
ue says /ū/ and /oo/
13.4
oo says /oo/ and /ŏŏ/ | any many
13.5
Mini-lesson Homophones
13.6
Morphology lesson - Final e + vowel suffixes
Download Phase 13 lesson pack
Phases 14–24 are due for release during 2025 and early 2026, with the final phase published during Term 1, 2026. To find out about updates, sign up to the Literacy Hub newsletter below.