A selection of dragon stories for developing comprehension skills suitable for readers from Year 1 upwards.
Children should be reading at or above orange level book band to access these texts.
Each story is accompanied by a sheet of comprehension questions to develop your students understanding of the text.
These stories can be used for reading fluency/ words per minute assessments.
Included in this pack:
Reading fluency rubric for teachers
Reading assessment sheet
Reading fluency exercise table for students with ideas and suggestions on what they can do to improve their reading fluency, pacing, expression, and pauses at punctuations.
A sheet for illustrating the story after reading.
These stories can be used for guided reading sessions, tutoring sessions, independent work, and book clubs with a focus on developing reading speed, fluency accuracy and use of expressions.
21 different and original stories:
The dragon and the star - 169 words
The dragon’s treasure - 177 words
The dragon’s song - 153 words
The dragon’s secret - 147 words
The dragon and the moon - 150 words
The friendly dragon - 153 words
The lost dragon egg - 162 words
The dragon and the princess - 165 words
The dragon’s flight - 154 words
The dragon’s gift - 156 words
The brave little dragon - 141 words
The dragon feast - 140 words
The magic feather - 133 words
The dragon who loved flowers - 277 words
The dragon and the storm - 152 words
The dragon’s garden - 136 words
The dragon and the moonlight - 142 words
The dragon and the bear - 243 words
The lonely dragon - 219 words
The dragon and the lost star - 177 words
The dragons’ flight - 186 words
Are your students stuck on blending?
Do they need more sound blending practice?
Look no further!
This resource will help your children to consolidate their blending and segmenting skills.
Print these sheets out onto white card, print on both sides.
Cut along the dotted line.
Staple the sheets together to make a book.
There are helpful tips for parents, a sound blending game to play with their children and a set of cut and paste sheets for children to use to build the words that are in the books.
These activities can be used in class, for homework, for tutoring or small group work.
These are the next books in the series. I will add more books as I make them. Check back in to my shop to find the others.
Sound Blending Book 4
Words in the book: can, kit, kid, cap, ten, men, pen, pet, net, peg.
Sound Blending Book 5
Words in the book: hat, hot, den, ted, hop, hip, ham, hen, hut, hit.
This upload contains this book:
Sound Blending Book 6
Words in the book: ram, fan, rat, fog, rip, red, fin, bat, fly, bib.
Are your students stuck on blending?
Do they need more sound blending practice?
Look no further!
This resource will help your children to consolidate their blending and segmenting skills.
Print these sheets out onto white card, print on both sides.
Cut along the dotted line.
Staple the sheets together to make a book.
There are helpful tips for parents, a sound blending game to play with their children and a set of cut and paste sheets for children to use to build the words that are in the books.
These activities can be used in class, for homework, for tutoring or small group work.
These are the next books in the series. I will add more books as I make them. Check back in to my shop to find the others.
Sound Blending Book 4
Words in the book: can, kit, kid, cap, ten, men, pen, pet, net, peg.
This upload contains this book:
Sound Blending Book 5
Words in the book: hat, hot, den, ted, hop, hip, ham, hen, hut, hit.
Sound Blending Book 6
Words in the book: ram, fan, rat, fog, rip, red, fin, bat, fly, bib.
Are your students stuck on blending?
Do they need more sound blending practice?
Look no further!
This resource will help your children to consolidate their blending and segmenting skills.
Print these sheets out onto white card, print on both sides.
Cut along the dotted line.
Staple the sheets together to make a book.
There are helpful tips for parents, a sound blending game to play with their children and a set of cut and paste sheets for children to use to build the words that are in the books.
These activities can be used in class, for homework, for tutoring or small group work.
These are the next books in the series. I will add more books as I make them. Check back in to my shop to find the others.
Sound Blending Book 4
Words in the book: can, kit, kid, cap, ten, men, pen, pet, net, peg.
Sound Blending Book 5
Words in the book: hat, hot, den, ted, hop, hip, ham, hen, hut, hit.
Sound Blending Book 6
Words in the book: ram, fan, rat, fog, rip, red, fin, bat, fly, bib.
Are your students stuck on blending?
Do they need more sound blending practice?
Look no further! This resource will help your children to consolidate their blending and segmenting skills.
Buy all 3 books at a reduced price in this bundle.
Print these sheets out onto white card, print on both sides.
Cut along the dotted line.
Staple the sheets together to make a book.
There are helpful tips for parents, a sound blending game to play with their children and a set of cut and paste sheets for children to use to build the words that are in the books.
These activities can be used in class, for homework, for tutoring or small group work.
These are the first in the series. I will add more books as I make them. Check back in to my shop to find the others.
Sound Blending Book 1
Words in the book: pat, ant, sip, sat, pin, nip, sit, tap, tip, nap.
Sound Blending Book 2
Words in the book:map, dad, man, sad, pan, pip, pit, mad, dip, pig.
Sound Blending Book 3
Words in the book: top, gas, tag, dot, dig, dog, pop, mop, pot, gap.
Are your students stuck on blending?
Do they need more sound blending practice?
Look no further! This resource will help your children to consolidate their blending and segmenting skills.
Print these sheets out onto white card, print on both sides.
Cut along the dotted line.
Staple the sheets together to make a book.
There are helpful tips for parents, a sound blending game to play with their children and a set of cut and paste sheets for children to use to build the words that are in the books.
These activities can be used in class, for homework, for tutoring or small group work.
These are the first in the series. I will add more books as I make them. Check back in to my shop to find the others.
Sound Blending Book 1
Words in the book: pat, ant, sip, sat, pin, nip, sit, tap, tip, nap.
Sound Blending Book 2
Words in the book:map, dad, man, sad, pan, pip, pit, mad, dip, pig.
This upload contains this book:
Sound Blending Book 3
Words in the book: top, gas, tag, dot, dig, dog, pop, mop, pot, gap.
Are your students stuck on blending?
Do they need more sound blending practice?
Look no further! This resource will help your children to consolidate their blending and segmenting skills.
Print these sheets out onto white card, print on both sides.
Cut along the dotted line.
Staple the sheets together to make a book.
There are helpful tips for parents, a sound blending game to play with their children and a set of cut and paste sheets for children to use to build the words that are in the books.
These activities can be used in class, for homework, for tutoring or small group work.
These are the first in the series. I will add more books as I make them. Check back in to my shop to find the others.
Sound Blending Book 1
Words in the book: pat, ant, sip, sat, pin, nip, sit, tap, tip, nap.
This upload contains this book:
Sound Blending Book 2
Words in the book:map, dad, man, sad, pan, pip, pit, mad, dip, pig.
Sound Blending Book 3
Words in the book: top, gas, tag, dot, dig, dog, pop, mop, pot, gap.
Are your students stuck on blending?
Do they need more sound blending practice?
Look no further! This resource will help your children to consolidate their blending and segmenting skills.
Print these sheets out onto white card, print on both sides.
Cut along the dotted line.
Staple the sheets together to make a book.
There are helpful tips for parents, a sound blending game to play with their children and a set of cut and paste sheets for children to use to build the words that are in the books.
These activities can be used in class, for homework, for tutoring or small group work.
These are the first in the series. I will add more books as I make them. Check back in to my shop to find the others.
This upload contains this book:
Sound Blending Book 1
Words in the book: pat, ant, sip, sat, pin, nip, sit, tap, tip, nap.
Sound Blending Book 2
Words in the book:map, dad, man, sad, pan, pip, pit, mad, dip, pig.
Sound Blending Book 3
Words in the book: top, gas, tag, dot, dig, dog, pop, mop, pot, gap.
A handy set of handwriting sheets featuring homophones.
Use these Homophone handwriting sheets to practise writing and spelling common homophones.
Perfect for helping children reinforce their knowledge of homophones, spelling and handwriting.
The homophones in this pack include:
aloud/allowed, ate/eight, bear/bare, blue/blew, board/bored, buy/bye, dear/deer, flower/flour, grate/great, hair/hare, hear/here, heard/herd, heel/heal, larva, lava, male/mail, knight/night, sow/sew, one/won, paws/pause, pair/pear, reads/reeds, sale/sail, tail/tale, witch/which, you/ewe, son/sun, sea/see, waist/waste.
Each sheet has a space for writing the words in cursive handwriting, a fill in the missing letters activity, a word pyramid and a space for writing the word in a sentence.
There are 56 sheets included in this resource.
Keep your class entertained this Halloween season with these varied and eye-catching spooky colouring pages. 20 different designs to choose from.
Whether you’re looking for a calming colouring activity for kids to keep them occupied or you’re planning on creating a horrifying Halloween display, these colouring sheets for Halloween are the perfect resources to use!
Can be used for:
Halloween Parties
After School Clubs
Rainy Day playtimes
Brean Breaks
Stress relief
Mindfulness activities
This resource can be used for home learning, tutoring or online learning and to review phonics from any scheme/program, although it does follow the order of RWI Set 2 sounds.
There are 45 pages with different activities to review the sounds air, ir, ou oy.
Activities include
Can you find it? - Find the target phoneme among other phonemes.
Speed read sounds - review of a selection of sounds which include set 1 and 2 sounds.
Circle and colour - a colouring activity with a target phoneme.
Read and match words and pictures
Read and draw a picture
Speed read words - can be timed as the child reads the words as fast as they can.
Read alien/nonsense words.
Write the words using phoneme frames.
Letter formation sheets - practicing the phoneme and words.
Sensory ideas for letter formation.
Write a sentence - with a given sentence to dictate.
This resource can be used for home learning, tutoring or online learning and to review phonics from any scheme/program, although it does follow the order of RWI Set 2 sounds.
There are 45 pages with different activities to review the sounds ay, ee, igh,ow.
Activities include
Can you find it? - Find the target phoneme among other phonemes.
Speed read sounds - review of a selection of sounds which include set 1 and 2 sounds.
Circle and colour - a colouring activity with a target phoneme.
Read and match words and pictures
Read and draw a picture
Speed read words - can be timed as the child reads the words as fast as they can.
Read alien/nonsense words.
Write the words using phoneme frames.
Letter formation sheets - practicing the phoneme and words.
Sensory ideas for letter formation.
Write a sentence - with a given sentence to dictate.
Tes paid licence
A range of Halloween themed counting worksheets for numbers 1 to 10.
Different layouts and pictures.
Count the objects and write the number.
14 pages of Halloween counting fun!
Halloween themed times tables games.
A collection of times tables games with a Halloween theme.
There is one for every number 2 to 12 times tables and 3 with mixed times tables.
Mixed sets:
2, 5 , 10 times tables
3 , 4, 6 times tables
7, 8, 9 times tables
8, 9, 12 times tables
15 game boards.
Directions to play:
Roll the dice then move a counter according to the number on the dice and solve the multiplication problem.
If correct stay on that space, if incorrect move back one space.
It can be played by 2-4 friends.
First player to the finish wins.
This resource can be used for home learning and to review phonics from any scheme/program, although it does follow the order of RWI Set 2 sounds.
There are 40 pages with different activities to review the sounds oo, oo, ar, or.
Activities include
Can you find it? - Find the target phoneme among other phonemes.
Speed read sounds - review of a selection of sounds which include set 1 and 2 sounds.
Circle and colour - a colouring activity with a target phoneme.
Read and match words and pictures
Read and draw a picture
Speed read words - can be timed as the child reads the words as fast as they can.
Read alien/nonsense words.
Write the words using phoneme frames.
Letter formation sheets.
Sensory ideas for letter formation.
Write a sentence - with a given sentence to dictate.
This is a bumper pack of Colour Monster activities to help children become more familiar with their feelings and giving names to their feelings.
74 pages of different activities, worksheets and posters.
Feelings sheets for writing and drawing
What is colour monster feeling? - feeling words posters
How are you feeling today posters and worksheets
Fill the jars with things that make you feel …
Sorting feelings into groups worksheet
Make your own feelings cards and posters
Lanyard cards - small set of feelings words, make your own using your own words and colours.
A great introduction to letter sounds and letters a-z.
There are pictures to colour in that start with the letter sound, a space to draw a picture and a space to begin practicing letter formation.
A great way to reinforce the letter sounds as they are learned.
These sheets can be used in an independent group learning activity, as a review, or they can be used as homework sheets to reinforce the sounds at home.
There are 36 phonemes
a-z, ll, ss, ff, zz, ng, nk, sh, ch, th (soft), ck.
It can be used to compliment any well known Phonics programmes.
These sheets should be printed as a double sided A4 worksheet, they can be folded into a pamplet/trifold worksheet.
There are different activities to reinforce letter sounds.
Draw it - draw a picture of an item that has the focus sound.
Find it - find the focus sound and draw a circle around it.
Colour it - 2 pictures to colour in and write the focus sound as the initial sound or within a word.
Write it - Practice letter formation.
Sort it - involves cutting, sorting and pasting pictures from the focus sound into a grid, there are also 2 pictures that are not from the focus group, to be pasted into another grid which reinforces reviewing past sounds.
Roll Say Keep
Roll Say Keep is a great game to help your students learn tricky/high frequency words.
Rules for the Game
Number of Players: 2 to 6
Items needed: Roll ~ Say ~ Keep game board, word cards for the list being studied, die.
Object of the game: To read the most words from the board
Directions:
Use sight word cards for the list being studied and 1 game mat.
Place a card, face up, in each space.
Leave the remaining cards in a pile.
Players take turns rolling the die and reading the cards in the appropriate space.
If the player can read the card, he keeps it and replaces the card with another from the pile.
Placing the cards face up gives the students more exposure to the words that need to be learned.
Included in this pack are:
6 game boards in different colours.
I have included several different word lists so that this game can be accessible to different reading/phonics schemes.
Word lists:
Year 1 Common Exception words.
Year 2 Common Exception words.
First 100 High Frequency Words.
RWI Red Words Set 1-4
Let me know if there are other lists you would like me to add.
Get your students off to a wonderful start with these handwriting sheets.
Suitable for children learning to form letters using the correct starting points.
There are different formats, sheets and cards that can be used as your students progress and develop their stamina for writing tasks.
The cards can be used in a learning centre or writing corner. Laminated they make a great resource that can be used again an again, with a whiteboard pen to practice letter formation.
They can be used during morning starter sessions or in small groups to practice letter formation.
This pack includes the cards for all letter a-z.
Handwriting sheets for all the letters a-z.