We are a team of two sisters who specialise in primary education. We are determined to create resources of the highest standard that can be used without further preparation. Our lessons and assemblies have been designed to challenge children of all levels within a creative, engaging and inspiring context. Explore our shop to find lesson packs for languages, art and religious education, plans for assemblies and numerous high-quality resources to help you teach phonics, mathematics and literacy
We are a team of two sisters who specialise in primary education. We are determined to create resources of the highest standard that can be used without further preparation. Our lessons and assemblies have been designed to challenge children of all levels within a creative, engaging and inspiring context. Explore our shop to find lesson packs for languages, art and religious education, plans for assemblies and numerous high-quality resources to help you teach phonics, mathematics and literacy
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘ph.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3, 4 and 5 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘ph’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘ph’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘ph’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘ph’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘ph’ sound
- Revision of HFW
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘a_e.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3, 4 and 5 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘a_e’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘a_e’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘a_e’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘a_e’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘a_e’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘i_e.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3, 4 and 5 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘i_e’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘i_e’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘i_e’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘i_e’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘i_e’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
A collection of 12 comprehension activities for year 1 on the theme of minibeasts, rainforests and reptiles.
All the comprehensions contain a short piece of text with picture clues for tricky words and five simple questions. There are also accompanying PowerPoints for you to read the texts through with your class if you wish.
This resource contains comprehension activities on Germany suitable for using with year 1. There are four different comprehensions:
What to do in Germany
What to eat in Germany
German traditions - Christmas
German traditions - Easter
There are three differentiated levels. There is a colour and black & white version of each level.
Each level contains four short pieces of text with words that can be sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say. Each passage is followed by 5 simple questions.
There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text from the middle ability so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them. This is not editable. Please click the ‘Read Only’ button to open it.
Answers are also included.
All of the documents are in the zip file.
No further preparation needed.
PDF file format.
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to reviseprevious phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘nk.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 and 3 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘nk’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘nk’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘nk’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘nk’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘nk’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to reviseprevious phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘nt.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 and 3 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘nt’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘nt’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘nt’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘nt’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘nt’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to reviseprevious phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘ft.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 and 3 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘ft’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘ft’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘ft’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘ft’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘ft’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to reviseprevious phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘lt.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 and 3 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘lt’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘lt’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘lt’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘lt’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘lt’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to reviseprevious phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘lf.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 and 3 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘lf’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘lf’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘lf’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘lf’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘lf’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to reviseprevious phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘sk.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 and 3 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘sk’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘sk’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘sk’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘sk’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘sk’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to reviseprevious phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘lp.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 and 3 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘lp’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘lp’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘lp’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘lp’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘lp’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource is a collection of interactive lessons aimed at whole class or group phonics. The lessons are PowerPoint presentations that allow children to revise phonemes and learn or revisit target final consonant blend sounds. Each lesson takes 15-20 minutes.
The PowerPoints are split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2, 3 and 4 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to target sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the target sound) OR reading fake words
- Segmenting and blending words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with target sound OR filling in missing words
- Writing a sentence with target sound
- Revision of tricky words
Perfect for introducing or revising final consonant blends.
(Please note: you can also buy all phase 4 sounds as a set by searching on the Blossoming Minds website.)
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to reviseprevious phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘lk.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3 and 4 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘lk’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘lk’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘lk’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘lk’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘lk’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to reviseprevious phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘xt.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3 and 4 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘xt’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Segmenting and blending sounds in real ‘xt’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Filling in missing words
- Writing a sentence with ‘xt’ sound
- Revision of tricky phase 4 words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to reviseprevious phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘tr.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3 and 4 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘tr’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘tr’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘tr’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘tr’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘tr’ sound
- Revision of tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to reviseprevious phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘br.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3 and 4 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘br’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘br’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘br’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘br’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘br’ sound
- Revision of phase 4 tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to reviseprevious phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘fr.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3 and 4 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘fr’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘fr’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘fr’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘fr’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘fr’ sound
- Revision of phase 4 tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to reviseprevious phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘cr.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 3 and 4 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘gr’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘cr’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘cr’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘cr’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘cr’ sound
- Revision of phase 4 tricky words
This resource is an interactive lesson aimed at whole class or group phonics. It is a powerpoint presentation that allows children to reviseprevious phonemes and learn or revisit the sound ‘mp.’ It takes 15-20 minutes.
This powerpoint is split into different sections:
- Revision of phase 2 and 3 phonemes in a random order
- Introduction to ‘mp’ sound and opportunity to trace the shape of the sound
- Spotting the odd one out (the picture without the ‘mp’ sound)
- Segmenting and blending sounds in ‘mp’ words
- Phoneme counting
- Phoneme spotting in sentences
- Writing words with ‘mp’ sound
- Writing a sentence with ‘mp’ sound
- Revision of tricky words