A phonics resource for kS1 3 activities based on words containing the grapheme ‘ie’. There are 3 black and white worksheets and the same worksheets in colour. Write the words, a phrase or sentence to go with each of the 8 pictures. Name the pictures and write ‘ie’ or the words and underline ‘ie’. Label the 8 pictures. Words: lie, pie, tie, magpie, fries, fried, cried, dried

A phonics resource for kS1 3 activities based on words containing the grapheme ‘OU’. There are 3 black and white worksheets and the same worksheets in colour. Write the words, a phrase or sentence to go with each of the 8 pictures. Name the pictures and write ‘OU’ or the words and underline ‘OU’. Label the 8 pictures. Words: cloud, sprouts, spout, sound, greyhound, proud, scout, thousand

A phonics resource for kS1 3 activities based on words containing the grapheme ‘ay’. There are 3 black and white worksheets and the same worksheets in colour. Write the words, a phrase or sentence to go with each of the 8 pictures. Name the pictures and write ‘ay’ or the words and underline ‘ay’. Label the 8 pictures.

A great activity for stimulating writing for KS1. There are 7 pages with 2 boxes on each which are useful templates for children to write their jokes in. Each page shows different characters laughing and commenting. There is also a page showing first liners that children can use when writing their own jokes including limerick starters.

A phonics resource for kS1 3 activities based on words containing the grapheme ‘ir’. There are 3 black and white worksheets and the same worksheets in colour. Write the words, a phrase or sentence to go with each of the 8 pictures. Name the pictures and write ‘ir’ or the words and underline ‘ir’. Label the 8 pictures. Words: shirt, stir, girl, first, third, birthday, bird, skirt

A phonics resource for kS1 3 activities based on words containing the grapheme ‘aw’. There are 3 black and white worksheets and the same worksheets in colour. Write the words, a phrase or sentence to go with each of the 8 pictures. Name the pictures and write ‘aw’ or the words and underline ‘aw’. Label the 8 pictures. Words: saw, straw, draw, law, raw, drawer, paw, claw

A phonics resource for kS1 3 activities based on words containing the grapheme ‘oe’. There are 3 black and white worksheets and the same worksheets in colour. Write the words, a phrase or sentence to go with each of the 8 pictures. Name the pictures and write ‘oe’ or the words and underline ‘oe’. Label the 8 pictures. Words: tomatoes, potatoes, dominoes, tiptoes, toes, hoe, doe, Joe

A phonics resource for kS1 3 activities based on words containing the grapheme ‘au’. There are 3 black and white worksheets and the same worksheets in colour. Write the words, a phrase or sentence to go with each of the 8 pictures. Name the pictures and write ‘au’ or the words and underline ‘au’. Label the 8 pictures. Words: dinosaur, Autumn, caught, bauble, pause, launch, haunted, author.

A phonics resource for kS1 3 activities based on words containing the grapheme ‘ey’. There are 3 black and white worksheets and the same worksheets in colour. Write the words, a phrase or sentence to go with each of the 8 pictures. Name the pictures and write ‘ey’ or the words and underline ‘ey’. Label the 8 pictures. Words: donkey, money, monkey, jockey, key, turkey, honey, chimney.

A phonics resource for kS1 3 activities based on words containing the grapheme ‘ea’. There are 3 black and white worksheets and the same worksheets in colour. Write the words, a phrase or sentence to go with each of the 8 pictures. Name the pictures and write ‘ea’ or the words and underline ‘ea’. Label the 8 pictures. Words: peach, sea, beads, peas, read, seal, seat, beach

A phonics resource for kS1 3 activities based on words containing the grapheme ‘ew’. There are 3 black and white worksheets and the same worksheets in colour. Write the words, a phrase or sentence to go with each of the 8 pictures. Name the pictures and write ‘ew’ or the words and underline ‘ew’. Label the 8 pictures. Words: new baby, blew, interview, newspaper, view, stew, new year, screw.

A phonics resource for kS1 3 activities based on words containing the grapheme ‘ue’. There are 3 black and white worksheets and the same worksheets in colour. Write the words, a phrase or sentence to go with each of the 8 pictures. Name the pictures and write ‘ue’ or the words and underline ‘ue’. Label the 8 pictures. Words: argue, duet, queue, Sue, glue, cue, clue and blue.

A phonics resource for kS1 based on words with ‘ph’ at their start or within. 3 activities based on words containing the grapheme ‘ph’. There are 3 black and white worksheets and the same worksheets in colour. Write the words, a phrase or sentence to go with each of the 8 pictures. Name the pictures and write ‘ph’ or the words and underline ‘ph’. Label the 8 pictures. Words: phone, trophy, elephant, graph, photo, alphabet, microphone and dolphin.

A great speaking and listening activity, especially useful for those learning English. There are 2 sets of worksheets / cards, one where pupils can write about the TV shows or name them. The other gives titles that pupils can use as prompts for discussion about what they watch, what they like or dislike etc. The word cards cut be cut out and matched to the TV shows also. The sheets could also form the basis of a survey on favourite TV shows or popularity. There is a template included at the end for pupils or teachers use.

This resource has 5 worksheets based on graphemes: ea, aw, ir, ay and ou Each page shows 12 colour pictures of things containing the grapheme shown Children read the words and match them to the pictures. Extend by asking the children to say a sentence for each of the words using the picture cues or writing a sentence in their work books.

A great little back to school quiz or anytime game encouraging team work, speaking and listening and vocabulary extension. Examples of pictures/sayings are ‘the hungry caterpillar’ and ‘the cat in the hat’. What to do Show the colour page with 28 pictures on. Children work in pairs or teams to try to work out the common sayings or idioms. Give them the grid template provided to write their answers on. Sheet 3 is the answer sheet, although children may come up with plausible alternative answers of their own. Another way of doing the quiz, is to give the children the answers, but in a mixed up form, and ask them to match them to the pictures. Children can go on to research any saying they do not know such as ‘pigs might fly’ or the’ elephant in the room’. This is a good resource too, for English language learners.

10 worksheets to encourage children to use their imagination and write . Children look at the picture, read the instructions and then draw / write in the frames. e.g. Peter loves to paint. Draw the picture he painted and write about it. Alan came first on Sports Day. Draw the event he took part in. Write about Sports Day.

A fun speaking and listening game, for back to school, or any time, to get children into the swing of learning and concentrating again. A bumper pack of 120 flash cards showing catch phrases or sayings. Some children will be familiar with and others they may need to research or try to work out. There are 2 colour flashcards to a page. There is an answer grid that covers all the pictures and a blank grid for children to write in. There are also a set of worksheets where the cards are split up into sets of A to J, with 12 pictures per page and space underneath for them to write the answers in. A great speaking and listening activity where children can discuss with their partners or small groups and come up with likely answers. There may be more than one answer that is appropriate. May be useful, too for those learning English.

Freshen up your classroom, displays or alphabet card resources with these art themed phonics cards from A to Z. Cards are lower case.

A lovely differentiated resource for phonics work based on the letter B. Sheet 1 is a word mat showing 20 colour pictures beginning with B and their matching words. Children can find the matching pairs, write under the words or draw lines to the pictures from the words. Sheet 2 shows the pictures in the centre and boxes around the outside for children to write the words into. Sheet 3 shows the words and no pictures. Children copy the words underneath and draw or paste pictures into the centre box. Sheet 4 shows pictures with lines in the middle for a list of B words or a sentence /short story using some of the key words and pictures. Sheet 5 - children can either draw 12 of the pictures in the boxes or write 12 words beginning with B. Sheet 6 - shows pictures around the outside. Children can use the space in the middle to draw or write in, or practice their letter B handwriting.