Why don’t Phase 5 graphemes have catchphrases/images?

We don’t have catchphrases for Phase 5 GPCs as we don’t want to overload children with additional information that is not needed. We use the ‘Grow the code’ chart to help children link new Phase 5 GPCs to the Phase 2 or 3 GPCs and their mnemonic or catchphrase. We want children to focus on the grapheme and what sound it makes, so we only think about that. We do have a word linked to each Phase 5 GPC that you can refer to e.g. /oa/ as in ‘snow’ – these are on the back of the Phase 5 grapheme cards.