A neat game for your students who are developing phonemic awareness with syllable sounds. There are shells and 30 pictures / cards. The number on the shell pictures corresponds to the number of syllables in the animal’s name on the card(s) the students receive. Students have to sound out the syllables and place the card next to the correct number. This resource is great for helping students understand that recognising sounds is essential before they begin writing words. Can be used as a cut and paste game, individual or group activity.

A set of 10 cards (5 picture cards and 5 word cards). Colour resource to help your students develop their phonemic and phonic awareness. This game can be played by having the words or pictures pre-cut and matching cards are placed on the opposite card or they can be matched up via pen /pencil. Can be used as a group or individual activity.

A neat game for your students who are developing phonemic awareness with syllable sounds. There are 4 barns. 30 pictures / cards. The number on the barns corresponds to the number of syllables in the word on the card(s) the students receive. Students have to sound out the syllables and place the card next to the correct number. This resource is great for helping students understand that recognising sounds is essential before they begin writing words. Can be used as a cut and paste game, individual or group activity.

26 bright, vibrant alphabet flashcards with a dinosaur theme. Ideal for engaging young dinosaur enthusiasts. Can be used for display or as part of developing phonemic awareness with students. Ideal when working one on one and asking students to select the word with the starting / middle / ending sound of your chosen word. In addition, the dinosaur pictures can also be used to ask students to identify the facial expression they think is being expressed.

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.

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.

A quick way to help your students distinguish between the necessary / appropriate writing style in their responses. Can be used as bookmarks or classroom posters.

5 posters of different scenes. A neat way for students to practice finding and listing nouns as seen in the poster. This is an ideal group activity (group competitions can be created adding some excitement to the activity) where students have to find the nouns in each picture. You can introduce a time challenge or first group to find 15 nouns etc. For the 3 posters where activities are being shown , the same can be done for verbs. Great for developing parts of speech understanding.

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.

A neat flashcard game for students who mispronounce blended sounds. Students need to match the cards based on the full beginning blend with its “opposite”, the card with the part of the blend missing. For example, plate = late; brush = rush; branch = ranch. 19 sheets (3 pairs per card), 57 colourful pairs that need to be precut for students.

32 bright, colourful flashcards each depicting a word. Students have to say or write that word depending on the word class listed at the bottom of the card. (Verb, adjective, proper noun, abstract noun, noun. ) This is an excellent revision game for students to distinguish between word classes. Reverse side of the cards is included as an option should you wish to print and laminate them for a group activity : )

6 cards / 12 pairs of everyday Latin terms used in English.

8 bright, vibrant posters illustrating a basic definition and examples of the following: Auxilary verbs Gerund Finite verbs Infinite verbs Participles Tautology Syntax Transitive verbs Perfect for classroom display when developing grammar knowledge.

3 page document providing a writing stimulus for “five senses” descriptive writing. Students are given the choice of four landscapes; have prompts for each sense and two differentiated exemplar paragraphs to help support their writing. This is an ideal resource for those needing to go beyond basic adjectives and provide sensory detail in their writing.

5 colourful worksheets that provide a defintion, examples and exercises relating to subject, predicate and objects; simple, compound and complex sentences and adjectives.

4 colourful worksheets where students have to match the alliterative sound. As many students have discovered, it’s not as easy as it seems : ) This is an excellent resource for consolidating phonic or alliterative knowledge. It’s also an ideal lesson starter / quick plenary activity when teaching sound devices as part of a poetry unit. Bonus: 2 worksheets to revise antonyms. A quick, fun activity where students match up the picture that means the opposite word.

Dinosaur themed visual sentence building cards. Students will need to include an auxillary verb, possessive noun and a preposition (or more depending on the length of the sentence.) This is a neat confidence boosting activity for early literacy. (Boys who sometimes struggle with reading fluency and polysyllabic words seem to engage with dinosaurs really well!) 8 who cards 8 what cards 8 where cards. Students are free to mix and match but must use at least one card from each colour group to make the sentence.

A quick flashcard game to test students on irregular verb knowledge by matching up the present / past tense. 12 sheets / 24 pairs.

5 colourful worksheets containing commonly misspelled words. Students have to choose the correct spelling to match the picture. A neat starter activity. This resource can be easily paired with teaching a specific spelling rule.

Three bright, vibrant posters on Narrative Perspective, Setting and Style. Each box breaks down what students need to look for when analysing texts regarding these key aspects.