A phonic activity to explore the sound 'igh' recap RWI set 2 sounds as you attempt to build your lighthouse. Base card is the lighthouse, each block with ugh word - laminated and turned over. Laminate and mix up the cards. Turn over, if a sound say the sound if a word build your lighthouse! Look for the correct shape to fill it up! Seagulls – not good! Put back your cards! A nice activity for continuos provision and links with Lighthouse keepers lunch! Once again pesky seagulls out to spoil the fun!

This has a been a much loved sorting activity- we tend to wear eye patches as we play it!!

the er ir ur family sorting read and stick!

cut and stick activities 6 games in total covers are/air er/ir/ur oi/oy ar/or au/aw read and sort. can be laminated or glued.

sort the sound family ew ue u-e read and stick!

a bit of summer time fun Banana Spilt Digraph Phonics- can you create your banana split before you end up with a banana skin! Build an ice cream before the seagulls come and pinch it! Nice link to Lighthouse keepers lunch too!

Phase 3 How to play Each player needs a piece of bread and Hamish in his basket. Turnover the sandwich fillings and read the word. If the player reads the word they keep it! Place onto your bread. Watch out for mustard! If you turn that card- all pieces have to go back into the picnic basket or return to play. If you turn over a piece of bread you have completed a sandwich! Place these pieces into Hamish’s basket or lighthouse! Keep playing until all the pieces have been used. The winner is the player with the most pieces for Mr Grinling’s Sandwiches

two games to play covering the sounds in phase 3 and 5 How to play Each player needs a piece of bread and Hamish in his basket. Turnover the sandwich fillings and read the word. If the player reads the word they keep it! Place onto your bread. Watch out for mustard! If you turn that card- all pieces have to go back into the picnic basket or return to play. If you turn over a piece of bread you have completed a sandwich! Place these pieces into Hamish’s basket or lighthouse! Keep playing until all the pieces have been used. The winner is the player with the most pieces for Mr Grinling’s Sandwiches

Build a sandwich for Mr Grinling Watch out for mustard - if you turn over that card all you pieces have to go back into the basket or light house! the seagulls are waiting! If you turn a piece of bread you have aged your pieces and they can go into Hamish's basket- phew a safe sandwich! see how many pieces you collect and what sort of sandwich will you get to make!

Cvc words but with missing final sound. Laminate and place in Continuous provision, guided sessions or send home to play.

two different sets 1. missing the middle sound. segment and post the sound-record (i am going to laminate !) 2. missing final sound. what is the last sound you hear?

Swop Seats rules This game supports children reading phase 4 and phase 5 decodable and tricky words. Place the cards face down in a pile. Children to start with no cards Pick one up and read it- if the read keep it, put at bottom of pile if cant! (although we do help rad them!) If you pick up the Fog on a stool- swop seats with someone on the table or playing the game. (look out for the most cards! Pick up a write it , spell it card and see how many times you can write it down ! Spell out loud/ spell to the person next to you. Play until the cards have all been used. Winner is the player with the most cards! a fun way to learn to read these weds with a spot of spelling!

a paper folding game- taking you back to your childhood. each game has two dight words to practise. Either spell it or rainbow write the word. something just a little bit different!

Here’s how to play Big Bad Mouse! • Print, laminate and cut out all of the cards. • If you want to do it weekly print the cards which you want to consolidate and add each week as you go. • Bundle them into a deck of cards and shuffle. • Turn the cards face down on the table. Children take it in turns to turn over the top card. • If the child can read it then he/she can keep it. • If a child gets the “Big Bad Mouse” card then he/she must give back all of the cards and place back in the forest!! The winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game. We also have a mat where the returned cards go rather than back into the pile to make the game shorter!

Here’s how to play Big Bad Mouse! • Print, laminate and cut out all of the cards. • If you want to do it weekly print the cards which you want to consolidate and add each week as you go. • Bundle them into a deck of cards and shuffle. • Turn the cards face down on the table. Children take it in turns to turn over the top card. • If the child can read it then he/she can keep it. • If a child gets the “Big Bad Mouse” card then he/she must give back all of the cards and place back in the forest!! The winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game. We also have a mat where the returned cards go rather than back into the pile to make the game shorter!

A complete set of RWI decodable sounds. set 1 covers satpinmdgock..... etc set 2 covers ay ee igh oo ou oy ir or ar air nk ow set 3 covers oi ue er ew ue ai ea aw oa are ure ear ire a-e i-e o-e u-esound buttons to help with segmenting and blending short sentences to read nonsense words to read too I am printing to use and send home to reinforce.

another make a row of 4 game i used in phonics sessions and also early bird activities This time it is words to decode using a range of phonics. the kids loved it!! Rules children/player has a base board pictures are placed face down in the centre- match the picture to a word on the card, decode and read. if you have it colour in and place the picture back in play first to a row of 4 .... or 5 .. or.... the whole board as mine wanted to play!!

. We played this game today as a group- the kids loved it so much that they requested i make it so they can play it at home! lunchtime is now spent laminating the cards to play! Can you match the sound the right coloured sound to the matching coloured alien! lots of fun to hide in the sand tray of create a memory game covers RWI phonics set 1 set 2 and set 3 sounds letters and sounds phase 3 4 5 plus consonant blends something a little different to support your phonic teaching

a traditional naughts and crosses game / tac tac toe each set follows tricky word phase in letters and sounds and also the decodable words following the satp immd gock eruf ff hbfl ll ss jvwx y qu z zz simple but fun game to support sight reading and decoding skills

30 cards with missing sounds for children to put in the missing sound. i will be using these as part of phonic session and also into continuous provision for phonics and writing. laminate and send home too!