Children will have fun with this PPT activity where they work out what the pictures are for each of the 8 crosswords and then the spellings /where to put the words. There are 8 slides. Share these on the white board. On the click of the key, the answers will appear from behind the green squares. Have a word bank handy for any children that might need this. Give children a mini white board each, or they can work in pairs. Links to reading, writing, spelling, phonics and celebrations.

*Licenced to use, produce and sell resources using Boardmaker symbols. 4 Phonics symbol worksheets for Christmas literacy. Each sheet shows a circle with initial sounds for children to match to the Christmas pictures. Next, they can colour in and cut out the picture cards and match these to the word cards. Children can then write a sentence about Christmas.

A Christmas activity where the children fill in the missing letters on the trees to complete the Christmas words. There are 4 trees with missing letters and 2 trees for children to draw in or write their own Christmas words in. The final page is a word bank for those children that need assistance with spelling /phonics.

3 differentiated word searches for EYFS /KS1 and Send pupils. Each of the word searches has picture support and there are corresponding answer sheets included. Links to topics on Celebrations, New Year, Winter and spelling and word work in literacy.