Reading Common words - 'Colour names'

What’s included?
This download includes x3 sheets, all portrait orientation, pdf format.

What’s it for?
This activity set has been designed to give learners an opportunity to look more closely at a set of the first 100/200 high frequency words and practise seeing these words on sight while matching these words with images. This set focuses on x15 ‘colour names’ - all words included have a matching image.

This is a simple, predictable activity to promote independence and consolidate learning. This activity is ideal for individuals/groups to be getting on with independently or those needing some individual 1:1 support.

Who’s it for?
This resource has been designed for pupils in Year 1 who are learning/need some practise/reinforcement of these sounds/words. This resource is also suitable for older learners with additional learning needs.

How to use it?
An adult can pre-cut along dotted lines provided for the set of x15 words (including to separate words and images). These pieces can then be shuffled and placed face-up for learners to read and match.

Resource Details…
These words are all from the list of Y1 ‘common words’ to read and spell. Some are also from the from the first 100/200 high frequency word list. It is possible to ‘sound out’ ‘most’ of these words, however some are ‘tricky’. Words to sound out can be identified by a ‘white tick’. Tricky words (not to be sounded out) can be identified by a white ‘cross’.

In the ‘word box’ at the top-right there is a coloured ‘triangle’. The colour indicates which phonics phase each word fits in with. Pink triangles indicate that the words are from ‘phase 2’, purple triangles indicate that the words are from 'phase 3’ and turquoise triangles indicate that the words are from 'phase 5’. The ‘key’ at the top of each sheet also makes this colour-coded system clear.

Red letters indicate the tricky/irregular letters/sounds. It is possible to sound out and ‘work out’ some words which contain some red letters if the focus is placed on the black letters in those words which should be sounds learners know (according to which phonics-phase they are competent in).

Where letters are underlined - this indicates that the letters together/separate have one sound. ‘Tricky words’ are underlined as one word instead.

Each page is numbered e.g. ‘1 of 3’ - find page numbers on the lower right side of each sheet.

The dark grey box outline colour indicates that these words are all part of the ‘colour names’ set. Sets for 'nouns’ and ‘number names to 20’ are already available and other common/high frequency word sets are coming soon…

Special request
ANY issues with any of this please don’t hesitate to let me know - I am happy to make changes. Feedback would be wonderful! Thank you!