Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the ‘igh’ sound. They’re the Green family and like to dress in green to reinforce their ‘ee’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. It contains at least a weeks worth of phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Meet the short vowel family , a family of dogs that represent all the graphemes that make the short vowel sounds in KS1 . All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 which include these phonemes are included. As well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its phoneme and explores the different spelling patterns. Sound spots are used to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the families they can apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the ‘ai’ sound. They’re the Grey family and like to dress in grey to reinforce their ‘ai’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Four games designed to support children in rehearsing their phonics skills prior to the phonic screening test. Children use their phonics skills to translate the alien language. In these games the children take on the role of aliens, they learn how to ask and answer questions like an alien. solve an alien treasure hunt and also create their own alien words. Most words have been used in past test papers. This activity is designed to be carried out over a number of days or as a carousel of activities throughout the day I have enclosed three copies of the slideshow. One in my preferred font, letterjoin but also one in comic sans and one in sassoon Inf . If you have any issues with the font please contact me. Thank you

Two Spelling mats arranged in phoneme families and displaying CEW in bold. One for year 1 and one for year 2. There are two copies one in letter join font and the other in comic sans. Both the year 1 and year 2 mats also include print outs for children to take home and practise spelling.

An end of the term smartboard activity to support a dictated sentence session revising spelling days of the week, the prefix un and suffixes ed, ing, est, es and s.

An activity to go with the Norbert Noun PowerPoint which explains the spelling rules for plurals.

A set of noun word cards. These are useful to use with the Word Wizard activites

The Word Wizards are a group of wizards who explain word types and their jobs to children. In this presentation you will meet Norbert Noun and his newt named Neil who together explain the difference between a proper and a common noun and the need for a capital letter. They also explain the plural rules and have some handy suffix spells to help children remember as well as this children learn about noun phrases.

Meet Angelina Adjective one of the Word Wizards who help children learn about different word types and spelling rules. Covers year 1 and year 2 English curriculum objectives.

Welcome to Sentence Centre here you will meet the four different sentence types children need to know and use in year 2 SPaG. The sentences are presented as characters who talk about the properties of their sentence type. Included are two follow on activities that children can do at their tables to demonstrate their understanding.

notebook file An illustrated rhyme with British Sign Language images to support children’s learning. Children sing the song to learn colours, vegetable names and days of the week.

Lesson plan and writing frames for aspirational writing based on the Dr Suez book 'Oh the Places You'll Go!'

Beginning of the school year activity. These activities are based on the book 'Oh the Places You'll Go' by Dr Suez. They include an inspirational quotes notebook file and stimulus photos for children to think of their own aspirational dreams. Also included is a height chart so children can see how much they grow in the school year. A lesson plan and writing templates can be purchased separately from my TES shop. Thank you

Click on the picture to hear the caption, drag the letters into the correct box to spell the words in the caption. Click on the sound spots to see if you're correct. Have a go at writing the caption on the line at the bottom.

Read the CVC captions and match them to the correct picture, children are greeted by applause when they get it right and are redirected back if they get it wrong. Six different captions to read.