30 pairs of colourful flashcards that need to be paired up. Can be used as an individual paste activity or as a group matching task.

7 sheets (28 cards) that encourage students to develop their awareness of contractions and the words that make up a contraction. The lines on each card are specific to the words required.

15 pages of Christmas Literacy activities. Bright, colourful worksheets that include word scrambles, wordsearch, colouring in pages, Letter to Santa, word to picture match, Alphabet words. This is an ideal resource to include in a Christmas Busy Book.

7 pages of colourful worksheets helping students to develop their phonic sound awareness. Beginning and ending blend sounds covered.

10 page display kit containing: 1 volcano 32 “cloud” sight words Dino footprints 1 - 20 (all in colour) Brighten up your classroom with a dinosaur themed literacy / numeracy display. Clouds / Footprints are intended to be cut out and arranged as you wish.

Brighten up your classroom with these colourful posters listing effective literacy / reading practice. 15 posters included in this pack. Posters display strategies such as: “We use ‘choral’ reading. This is when we read words or phrases together.” “We use a ruler to track words on the page.” “When we see a question mark, we ask, not say, the words.” “We pause when we see a full stop.” “When reading we change the volume of our voice when needed.”

5 worksheets helping students to find verbs / auxillary verbs in a sentence. This resource is designed as a quick revision activity once students have been taught parts of speech.

20 colourful flashcards each containing a full sentence in the present tense. This resource is ideal for practising reading sight words and introducing new vocabulary as pupils become confident with sight words and look for an additional challenge. Bonus: each flashcard comes with a traceable letter version to enable students to develop their handwriting skills.

6 colourful flashcards (or classroom posters if enlarged) of basic plural rules.

10 card sets (6 cards in each). The sets are colour coded so the students know which numbers they have to sequence. Some numbers are written numerically and some are written using words. Students are to place the numbers in sequential order demonstrating they can read both the numbers and words. This is a neat little activity to boost literacy skills.

Visual display featuring Benny, his bowl, dog biscuits and his friend Henry the cat. Ideally, cut out and laminate. 4 story cards are included. Instructions are on each card. They contain basic facts about Benny and need to be read aloud to the student(s) as this activity is designed to focus on phonological sounds, not the written word. Excellent kinesthetic activity for students as they need to listen carefully for the number of sounds emphasised by the teacher and place the biscuits in Benny’s bowl accordingly.

10 pairs / 20 flashcards of objects or abstract concepts. Card will need to be pre-cut. Students have to match up the pairs based on which one has the silent e added to make a new word. Pairs are: Cut / Cute Hat / Hate Win / Wine Hop / Hope Rip / Ripe Mat / Mate Rob / Robe Cub / Cube Din / Dine Pip / Pipe

This is a neat little flashcard set when students need to develop phonemic awareness. 11 sheets / pairs of cards. Place all the cards picture side up, students are to create two piles, one with the ‘dge’ sounds and the other with the ‘g’ sound. Words are designed to be copied / laminated on the back of the card so students can see what the word looks like in written form. This is meant to be primarily a visual / sound game.

If your students are confident with sight words and CVC words and you would like to introduce a comprehension element, this is the ideal resource. 15 sheets / 30 cards each containing a basic question. Students are able to place a yes / no card next to the question card. This activity often leads on to group or class discussions about the topic on the card. 1 yes / no card sheet that can be printed as many times as needed.

26 bunting flags containing each letter of the alphabet and examples of animals beginning with each letter. A cute and colourful way to decorate your classroom.

A 26 page workbook for students who are developing phonological awareness. This is a brilliant resource for students who recognise different letters but need to focus on the sounds made at the start, in the middle and the end of the words.

DIY phonic fans. The first 4 pages contains the initial 23 sounds students learn. The following 26 sounds are the more complex 26 consonant digraphs and graphemes. A split pin is used to make the fans (6-8 in a group) at the bottom of the ice cream cone. The fans can be used to ask students to identify sounds as they hear them from an audio recording or being read to in class. This activity is a brilliant way to help students develop phonological awareness.

20 cards, 4 x 4 letters; 2 x 5 letters; 2 x 6 letters. Cards will need to be precut. Students are to match the pieces based on the picture and correct spelling of the picture. A fun exercise for students who are confident with CVC or CVCC words and want to try more challenging, themed words.

26 page PDF of upper and lower case letters. These can be coloured in, cut out, laminated etc. to make alphabet fans for early learners.