Clever Speller is a unique story based learning approach to spelling featuring full length narrative picture book style stories full of words showing all the ways to spell a focus sound. Our resources develop the essential skills of phonemic awareness, (hearing sounds in words,) and phonics, (learning all the ways to spell them). Authentic context makes learning to spell meaningful, warm and memorable. Make sense of crazy English spelling and bring it to life with engaging stories!
Clever Speller is a unique story based learning approach to spelling featuring full length narrative picture book style stories full of words showing all the ways to spell a focus sound. Our resources develop the essential skills of phonemic awareness, (hearing sounds in words,) and phonics, (learning all the ways to spell them). Authentic context makes learning to spell meaningful, warm and memorable. Make sense of crazy English spelling and bring it to life with engaging stories!
Alphabet Flashcards
These alphabet flashcards are designed with captivating pictures to captivate and engage your students, making it easier for them to learn the beginning sounds of words. They can be used for various purposes such as word recognition, spelling games, sorting activities, writing prompts, or as a classroom display. Each page of the flashcards is available in both color and black and white, giving you the option to choose according to your preference. The resource includes flashcards with four letters on each page, featuring two words and two corresponding images for each letter. It also includes both upper and lower case letters, providing a comprehensive learning experience. Moreover, you can enlarge the flashcards onto A3 paper for larger cards, ensuring clear visibility and better engagement.
In this Resource:
Flashcards
4 letters to a page with 2 words and 2 images for each letters
Upper and lower case letters
Enlarge on to A3 paper for larger cards
This printable phonics learning calendar for kids is designed to teach the 44 sounds of the English language and features words and pictures to easily teach 302 different letter combinations.
Each sound in the English language can be represented by numerous letter combinations, which can be confusing when learning how to spell. This calendar breaks down this complex learning process to small chunks and help children to easily learn a new spelling per day!
Key Features:
Comprehensive Phonics Coverage: Covering all 44 sounds of the English language, this calendar provides a structured approach to spelling mastery.
Visual Aid: Each day features a phonics word accompanied by a clear and relatable picture, aiding visual recognition and understanding.
Printable Format: Conveniently printable, the calendar can be hung on the wall or kept on a desk for daily reference.
Suitable for Classrooms, Home Learning Space, Child’s Bedroom or Family Room: the bright and cheery nature helps to make spelling a happy and natural process.
Quick and easy garden biology lessons for all ages. These 6 different treasure hunts are perfect to enjoy and explore nature and are suitable for any outdoor area. Each activity is designed for both independent work and working together with a buddy or group.
Also complements learning about nouns and adjectives, the senses of touch, sound and sight and also emotions/well being.
Contents: Students record their findings in words or pictures.
Garden Treasures
Garden Nouns
Garden Descriptions
Garden Sounds
Garden Textures
Garden Feelings
Phonics activities and spelling worksheets to learn the ‘a’ letter pattern in Long A vowel sound words. Includes classic contract, make a mini book, find the words in a picture, match words and pictures, rhyming, find the words in the story, vocabulary extension, book marks to make, manipulative phoneme cards, word and picture cards, ideas for hands on activities, and assessment.
These story based activities provide opportunities for students to develop phonological awareness and phonemic awareness and easily learn spelling patterns and rules, (phonics).
Variations are included to cater for US and UK spelling differences
Contents
Information:
About this resource
About Story Based Learning
2 Word Lists
2 levels, 10 words in each list
Baby Jake’s Birthday: Story on a Page
2 copies of Phonics Story with 103 Long A Words showing 9 different ways to spell the Long A vowel sound.
Version 1 all text in black
Version 2 Long A words printed in green
2 My Words To Learn
List of Long A words to learn, Look Cover Write Check
2 Spelling Contracts
Spelling activities for workbooks
Write the word to match the picture worksheet
Suffixes
Identify base word, grapheme changes and suffix rule1
2 Mini Books
Write words and draw pictures to make a mini book
2 Words in a Picture
Find where all the Long A words belong on the picture2 Match Words and Pictures
Use as individual activities or laminate for re-use
2 copies: Colour and Black and White
2 Rhyming Long A
Highlight the rhyming Long A words in the table
Finding Long A
Find the Long A words in the story
Underline the Long A letters
Vocabulary Extension
Find more ‘a’ Long A words
How many other sounds do the letters ay represent
Answer guide
Book Marks
Bookmarks for easy reference
Word Cards
Plain black text
Coloured Long A graphemes with pictures
Phoneme Cards
Cut out and combine the phonemes to make words
Activity Ideas
Practical ideas to teach and reinforce phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence
Assessment
Dictation
Spelling
Phonics
Included in this resource is the story on one page.
Phonics activities and spelling worksheets to learn the ‘e’ letter pattern in Long E vowel sound words. Includes classic contract, make a mini book, find the words in a picture, match words and pictures, rhyming, find the words in the story, vocabulary extension, book marks to make, manipulative phoneme cards, word and picture cards, ideas for hands on activities, and assessment.
These activities provide opportunities for students to develop phonological awareness and phonemic awareness and easily learn spelling patterns and rules, (phonics).
Contents
Information:
About this resource
About Story Based Learning
2 Word Lists
1 story based list (mainly sight/high frequency words) and 1 list of extra words with images, 10 words in each list, 20 spelling words in total.
Three Free Wishes: Story on a Page
2 copies of Phonics Story with 127 Long E Words showing 12 different ways to spell the Long E vowel sound.
Version 1 all text in black
Version 2 Long E words printed in green
2 My Words To Learn
List of Long E words to learn, Look Cover Write Check
2 Spelling Contracts
Spelling activities for workbooks
Write the word to match the picture worksheet
Practice recording sheet
1 Mini Book
Write words and draw pictures to make a mini book
1 Words in a Picture
Find where all the Long E words belong on the picture
1 Match Words and Pictures
Use as individual activities or laminate for re-use
2 copies: Colour and Black and White
2 Rhyming Long E
Highlight the rhyming Long E words in the table
Finding Long E
Find the Long E words in the story
Underline the Long E letters
Vocabulary Extension
Find more ‘e’ Long E words
How many other sounds do the letters ay represent
Answer guide
Book Marks
Bookmarks for easy reference
Word Cards
Plain black text
Coloured Long E graphemes with pictures
Phoneme Cards
Cut out and combine the phonemes to make words
Activity Ideas
Practical ideas to teach and reinforce phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence
Assessment
Dictation
Spelling
Phonics
Included in this resource is the story on one page.
Easily teach alternative spellings and help your students to recognise and correctly use 12 uncommon Long A vowel sound graphemes. Activities include classic spelling contract, make a mini book, find the words in a picture, match words and pictures, rhyming, find the words in the story, vocabulary extension, book marks to make, manipulative phoneme cards, word and picture cards, ideas for hands on activities and assessment.
These phonics activities support the Science of Reading by providing the specific systematic and explicit instructions students require in order to learn about letter sounds and words.
This pack of resources is based on the included Long A phonics story that easily shows how the Long A sound can be spelled in many ways. Our story based approach to spelling provides the context for phonics to make sense and brings spelling to life.
Graphemes taught in this resource include:
Story Based: ea, ei, eigh, ey and e_e
Extra: ais, ait, au, e, ee, eig, et,
Activities include:
Baby Jake’s Birthday Long A Phonics Story containing 103 Long A words that show 9 ways to spell the Long A Vowel Sound.
My Words to Learn
Spelling Contract
Mini Book
Words in a Picture
Matching Words and Pictures
Rhyming Long A
Finding Long A
Extension
Challenge
Grapheme Chart
Bookmarks
Word Cards
Phoneme Cards
Activity Ideas
Assessment
In this resource the base words and pictures are from ‘Baby Jake’s Birthday’, a phonics story containing 103 Long A words showing 9 ways the Long A sound can be spelled. In this story Jamie and Jane are in charge of the games at Baby Jake’s birthday party. Children will love reading about the fun at the party and easily learn 9 different ways to spell the Long A sound, in a natural and meaningful context.
More About Clever Speller
One of the most difficult aspects of learning to spell is that English is not a phonetic language. Every sound in the English language can be spelled in more than one way which makes building phonics skills a complex process.
Our story based approach to spelling helps to provide context for phonics to make sense and brings phonics to life with purpose written stories full of words showing how sounds can be spelled in many ways.
Clever Speller stories are different to most decodable readers and passages. They are written in full length colourful picture book style, with beautifully illustrated scenes, engaging characters and imaginative adventures.
Our stories provide a link between decodable readers and storybooks. They include a variety of words ranging from simple to complex, with the focus sound letters printed in green to assist with decoding.
23 Rhyme worksheets to help your junior primary students recognise, combine and manipulate sounds in words and understand the concept that words sharing common sounds often share common letter sequences. Children will practice hearing, identifying and manipulating sounds and quickly realise that if they can spell ‘cape’, they can spell ‘tape’ etc.
This variety pack of story based resources will capture and maintain student interest as they build competence in these essential phonological awareness foundation skills to support a successful learning to spell journey.
Included in this pack:
7 Find the Rhyme Worksheets: Colour all the words that rhyme with a focus word in green and the rest in a different colour.
2 Rhyming Pairs Worksheets: Draw a line matching words with the same last sound. 2 versions for this activity, black and white for student worksheet and colour to laminate for repeated use
10 Rhyming Words Worksheets: Highlight the rhyming words in each row of the table.
4 Rhyming Writing Activities: Write a story or poem with rhyming sentences
2 Copies of the Phonics Story ‘Baby Jake’s Birthday’: Phonics story full of words showing 9 ways the Long A sound can be spelled. 2 copies are included, one with the Long A words in green and the other with all text in black
These Long E Word Family Flash Cards are an excellent way to teach explicit phonics skills and develop phonemic awareness. Containing 117 words paired with an image, these flashcards will help your students overcome the challenging concept that sounds in words are represented in many different ways and easily learn 12 different ways the Long E sound can be spelled. All of the words are contained in the included original phonics story providing context and meaning.
Included in this resource are several words such as ‘very’, ‘between’, ‘these’ etc that are often taught separately as ‘sight’ words and disconnected to regular spelling and phonics activities. However, like every word in the English language they can be segmented into individual sounds, with each sound represented by letter combinations. Therefore these words are included, as even if they are unusual they can still be ‘sounded out’ using the same process as ‘regular’ words!
Differentiated teaching is made easy with 117 words from simple through to complex, enabling consolidation and extension of vocabulary.
In this resource:
123 Flashcards: 117 Long E words with 2 repeats of the words cheeky, greedy, leafy, leaky, extremely and easy, as they contain 2 ways to spell the Long E sound. Blank cards are also included.
Alphabetical Word List and Lists for 12 Word Families: ay, e, ea, ee, ei, eo, ey, e_e, i, ie, i_e, y
Original Phonics Story: Three Free Wishes containing all the flash card words to bring spelling to life and provide context for phonics to make sense.
These Long O Word Family Flash Cards are an excellent way to teach explicit phonics skills and develop phonemic awareness. Containing 104 words paired with an image, these flashcards will help your students overcome the challenging concept that sounds in words are represented in many different ways and easily learn 9 different ways the Long O sound can be spelled. All of the words are contained in the included original phonics story providing context and meaning.
Included in this resource are several words such as ‘so’, ‘those’, ‘though’ etc that are often taught separately as ‘sight’ words and disconnected to regular spelling and phonics activities. However, like every word in the English language they can be segmented into individual sounds, with each sound represented by letter combinations. Therefore these words are included, as even if they are unusual they can still be ‘sounded out’ using the same process as ‘regular’ words!
Differentiated teaching is made easy with 104 words from simple through to complex, enabling consolidation and extension of vocabulary.
In this resource:
108 Flashcards: 104 Long O words with 2 variations of the word yogurt/yoghurt, and 2 cards for the word overcoat which appears in both the ‘o’ and ‘oa’ word family lists. 2 blank cards are also included.
Alphabetical Word List and Lists for 9 Word Families: ew, o, oa, oe, oh, ol, ough, ow, o_e
Original Phonics Story: Joanna Goanna containing all the flash card words to bring spelling to life and provide context for phonics to make sense.
These fun activities are the perfect way for your Junior Primary students to build skills in counting to 10 and 20. Engage them with a scavenger hunt, bring out their creativity with a challenge to build a tower and keep their minds and bodies active with a fitness game.
Your students will develop the following skills:
Subitise: look at a number and recognise how many there are
Estimate and Check: locate objects close to the required number and then check
Counting on: start with a number and ‘count on’ with other numbers to get to a larger number
Counting: recite numbers in the correct order
Recording number sentences
Contents:
Scavenger Hunt
Subitise and check: 1 to 10
Estimate and check: 11 to 20
3 activities x 2 levels each:
at home
inside
outside
My Tall Tower: Counting On
Roll the dice and add block
Roll again and add
Draw and write total
Extension, add number sentence
Fitness Counting
cut into separate cards
choose a number and activity
Make learning to spell fun with this Spelling Activity Booklet for Short A Vowel Sound CVC words. Our booklet is designed for pre-school and beginner spellers to easily develop phonemic awareness, (hearing sounds in words) and phonics skills, (letter sound correspondence). With matching words and pictures, onset and rhyme, reading and sounding out words and writing sentences activities, plus assessment checklists and recording sheets - your students will be confident and competent spellers in no time!
Included in this Resource
14 activities and 2 checklists
Checklists
Progress and Assessment Checklists
Beginning sounds
Identify words starting with the Short A sound
Odd one out
Middle sounds
Identify words with a Short A sound in the middle
Odd one out
Letter Recognition: Identify the ‘Short A’ sound letter in words
Beginning sound
Middle sound
Spelling: the Short A sound
Sound out and say
Match the words and picture
Onset and Rhyme
Beginning Sounds Onset: change the first letter to make new Short A sound words
Ending sounds Rhyme: Identify the words that rhyme
Reading
Reading Short A sound words by sight, complete words, no pictures
Reading simple sentences with Short A words
Writing
Write the Short A sound word that matches the picture
Write a simple sentence using Short A sound words from the activities
How to Use These Activities
Morning work, a page every day will build skills and confidence
As main spelling lesson activities or as a complementary activity
For catching up students who are having difficulties
Sequential unit, beginning with recognising words that begin with the focus sound and leading to being able to independently read and write words with the focus sound.
Individual activities as needed
Encouraging students to celebrate progress with child friendly ‘I can’ statements on every page
Print Options
A4 Booklet: print A4 pages 4-19 and staple together as a pack
Individual A4 activities/worksheets: print as required
A5 Mini Booklet: print [ages 4-19 double sided and select booklet in the print options/layout page on your screen. The booklet will print as 4 double sided pages and be ready to fold into a 16 page A5 size booklet with front and back cover and 14 activities. Staple or bind with string or ribbon.
Unleash your students’ imagination with Creative Story Writing! This fun and engaging activity is perfect for middle primary students and is designed to inspire and motivate them develop skills in narrative writing. With a roll of the dice, they’ll get a unique story starting point, with characters and settings from the included base story and a range of problems to solve. Let the adventure begin and help your middle primary students engage and be inspired!
All characters, images and settings are based on the included original story ‘Three Free Wishes’ to ignite imagination and help your students write a sequel or spin off. Or, you can use this as a stand alone activity!
Included in this resource:
Roll a Story Chart
3 Story Planning sheets, differentiated for a range of capability.
3 Writing sheets, also differentiated to cater for learning levels and styles.
Story to inspire: Three Free Wishes (a purpose written phonics story full of Long E words…bonus reinforce spelling while they write!)
50 Suffixes Anchor Chart Posters to display in your class or home learning area. Each poster contains a suffix and its meaning, an example of a word and a picture for visual learning. Easy no prep printable posters to help middle primary students learn about grammar as well as brightening up your classroom decor.
50 Suffixes to learn: able, acy, age, al, ance, ant, ary, dom, ed, ee, eer, en, ence, ent, er, ery, est, es/ies/s, ful, hood, ible, iac, ian, ic, ify, ing, ious, ise, ish, ism, ist, ity, ive, less, ling, ly, ment, ness, or, ous, ship, sion, some, tion, ty, ward, way, ways, wise, y
What is Included:
– 50 Posters with suffix, meaning and picture clue
Print as A4 or any preferred size
14 Word Study activities for beginning spellers to develop phonemic awareness and phonics skills. Activities include hearing sounds in words, letter-sound correspondence, sounding out, matching words and pictures, onset and rhyme, reading and writing words and sentences with Short E CVC words plus recording and assessment checklists. Print as an A5 booklet or A4 worksheets.
Included in this Resource
14 activities and 2 checklists
Checklists
-Progress and Assessment Checklists
Beginning sounds
Identify words starting with the Short E sound
Odd one out
Middle sounds
Identify words with a Short E sound in the middle
Odd one out
Letter Recognition: Identify the ‘Short E’ sound letter in words
Beginning sound
Middle sound
Spelling: the Short E sound
Sound out and say
Match the words and picture
Onset and Rhyme
Beginning Sounds Onset: change the first letter to make new Short E sound words
Ending sounds Rhyme: Identify the words that rhyme
Reading
Reading Short E sound words by sight, complete words, no pictures
Reading simple sentences with Short E words
Writing
Write the Short E sound word that matches the picture
Write a simple sentence using Short E sound words from the activities
How to Use These Activities
Morning work, a page every day will build skills and confidence
As main spelling lesson activities or as a complementary activity
For catching up students who are having difficulties
Sequential unit, beginning with recognising words that begin with the focus sound and leading to being able to independently read and write words with the focus sound.
Individual activities as needed
Encouraging students to celebrate progress with child friendly ‘I can’ statements on every page
Print Options
A4 Booklet: print A4 pages 4-19 and staple together as a pack
Individual A4 activities/worksheets: print as required
A5 Mini Booklet: print [ages 4-19 double sided and select booklet in the print options/layout page on your screen. The booklet will print as 4 double sided pages and be ready to fold into a 16 page A5 size booklet with front and back cover and 14 activities. Staple or bind with string or ribbon.
50 task cards to help students understand the meanings of suffixes, add a suffix to a base word, understand how a suffix changes the meaning of a base word and use base words and words with suffixes in their writing. Extend your student’s vocabulary with engaging task cards to learn about 50 different suffixes. Easy to differentiate and fantastic for your early finishers!
No prep printable Print and laminate to add to your collection of activities for learning centres, rotation activities and extension work. All activities easily align with curriculum requirements.
50 Suffixes to learn: able, acy, age, al, ance, ant, ary, dom, ed, ee, eer, en, ence, ent, er, ery, est, es/ies/s, ful, hood, ible, iac, ian, ic, ify, ing, ious, ise, ish, ism, ist, ity, ive, less, ling, ly, ment, ness, or, ous, ship, sion, some, tion, ty, ward, way, ways, wise, y
What is Included:
50 Task Cards with suffix, meaning, picture clue and activities
Sample Answer Card
Activities on each task card:
Write the base word
Add suffixes to the base word to make new words
Write meanings for the base word and new words
Write sentences to include base word and new words
2 Task cards per page, print as A4 or any preferred size
Print for individual use or laminate for multiple use
50 Prefixes Anchor Chart Posters to display in your class or home learning area. Each poster contains a prefix and its meaning, an example of a word and a picture for visual learning. Easy no prep printable posters to help middle primary students learn about grammar as well as brightening up your classroom decor.
50 Prefixes to learn: ab, ad, ante, anti, auto, be, bi, co, de, di, dia, dis, em, en, ex, extra, fore, homo, hyper, hypo, il, im, in, inter, ir, mal, mega, micro, mid, dis, mono, multi, non, omni, out, over, para, post, pre, pro, re, semi, sub, super, trans, tri, un, ultra, uni, up
What is Included:
50 Posters with prefix, meaning and picture clue
Print as A4 or any preferred size
Extend your student’s vocabulary with engaging task cards to learn about 50 different prefixes. Easy to differentiate and fantastic for your early finishers! No prep printable task cards will help students to understand the meanings of prefixes, add a prefix to a base word, understand how a prefix changes the meaning of a base word and use base words and words with prefixes in their writing. Print and laminate to add to your collection of activities for learning centres, rotation activities and extension work.
50 Prefixes to learn: ab, ad, ante, anti, auto, be, bi, co, de, di, dia, dis, em, en, ex, extra, fore, homo, hyper, hypo, il, im, in, inter, ir, mal, mega, micro, mid, mis, mono, multi, non, omni, out, over, para, post, pre, pro, re, semi, sub, super, trans, tri, un, ultra, uni, up
What is Included:
50 Task Cards with prefix, meaning, picture clue and activities
Sample Answer Card
Activities on each task card:
Write the base word
Add prefixes to the base word to make new words
Write meanings for the base word and new words
Write sentences to include base word and new words
2 Task cards per page, print as A4 or any preferred size
Print for individual use or laminate for multiple use
Fun and interactive Short U words quiz. The Short U letters are printed in green for easy decoding. Great practice for phonics checks!
Students Will Develop Skills in:
phonemic awareness, hearing the Short U sound in words
letter sound recognition, learning which letters spell the Short U sound
segmenting words into phonemes, also known as sounding out
recognising words
decoding the Short U sound
How to Play:
Click on the word that matches the picture.
With correct answer deck will advance to next slide
Incorrect answer will be circled in red for student to retry.
Students can play as many times as they wish.
Cards are randomised
All word and pictures are from the original Short U phonics story ‘Stuck in the Mud’ by Clever Speller.
On purchasing you will receive a PDF with a link to the product and extensive information on how to use Boom Cards. You will need a Boom account which is free to use when accessing this resource.
Boom Cards are:
interactive digital activities
engaging
self-checking, instant response
can be used over and over, questions are shuffled for a new experience each time
accessible on computers, tablets, whiteboards, any smart device
accessible from the website or an app
perfect for classroom or home learning
Instructions
Official Information from Boom Learning℠
To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for
Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. For security and privacy, adults must
have a Boom Learning account to use and assign Boom Cards. You will be able to
assign the Boom Cards you are buying with “Fast Pins,” (play provides instant
feedback for self-grading Boom Cards). Fast Play is always a free way for
students to engage with Boom Cards decks.
Easily learn the difference between homophones, homonyms and homographs with Tyson Pirate and consolidate learning to spell the Long I sound at the same time.
Includes the following words:
Homophones: I eye, high hi, might mite, by buy, right write
Homonyms: kind, light, tire, dry, might, mine
Homographs: live/live
Activities Include:
Lesson Ideas
All About Homophones, Homonyms and Homographs
Find the Words
Choose the Correct Homophone
Homophone Pairs
Long I Phonics Story, Diamonds in the Sky
All words are from the Long I phonics story Diamonds in the Sky, a purpose written story full of words to easily learn 11 different ways the Long I sound can be spelled.
Clever Speller’s unique story based approach to spelling features full length engaging picture book stories full of words with all the ways to spell a focus sound in the same story.
Fun and interactive Short O words quiz. The Short O letters are printed in green for easy decoding. Great practice for phonics checks!
Students Will Develop Skills in:
phonemic awareness, hearing the Short O sound in words
letter sound recognition, learning which letters spell the Short O sound
segmenting words into phonemes, also known as sounding out
recognising words
decoding the Short O sound
How to Play:
Click on the word that matches the picture.
With correct answer deck will advance to next slide
Incorrect answer will be circled in red for student to retry.
Students can play as many times as they wish.
Cards are randomised
All word and pictures are from the original Short O phonics story ‘Poppy’s Top Shop’ by Clever Speller.
On purchasing you will receive a PDF with a link to the product and extensive information on how to use Boom Cards. You will need a Boom account which is free to use when accessing this resource.
Boom Cards are:
interactive digital activities
engaging
self-checking, instant response
can be used over and over, questions are shuffled for a new experience each time
accessible on computers, tablets, whiteboards, any smart device
accessible from the website or an app
perfect for classroom or home learning
Instructions
Official Information from Boom Learning℠
To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for
Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. For security and privacy, adults must
have a Boom Learning account to use and assign Boom Cards. You will be able to
assign the Boom Cards you are buying with “Fast Pins,” (play provides instant
feedback for self-grading Boom Cards). Fast Play is always a free way for
students to engage with Boom Cards decks.