A picture of a room filled with objects starting with the letter ‘n’ - designed to support phonics development in the Early Years and to make learning fun. “What’s in the sound room today?” Includes Powerpoint and PDF poster.

An individual recording sheet for baseline phonic assessments. Assesses single sound recognition (a-z), oral blending, CVC word and tricky word reading (Phase 2). Ideally repeated half-termly or termly to show progression. Can also support allocating children to streaming groups for differentiated teaching. Flashcards of the words and sounds within the assessment are also included.

A one page Reading Record for Reception aged pupils, featuring the ‘Development Matters’ reading statements for 30-50 months, 40-60 months and the Early Learning Goal. There is space for teacher comments and logging the dates and books read each week. In my Reception class we have a reading folder for the whole class. Every child gets one of these sheets either half-termly or termly, to document their progression and to support assessment. Practitioners write comments by the side and date when steps are achieved. Having the Development Matters statements easily to hand helps prompt practitioners to further children’s learning and plan for their ‘next steps’.

An interactive Powerpoint activity featuring 30 CVC words. The pictures appear first; once they are clicked on the letters drop down one by one so that children can read along with each word. This is a great whole class activity for CVC word or oral blending practice during Phonics sessions.

A visual playdough recipe and separate ingredients sheet with simple photographs for each step. Designed to enable children to follow the recipe independently.

Boarding passes for use in an airport role play. A reading/writing opportunity to support purposeful role play. Also features a clock for children to draw the hands on to support early mathematical development.

A Flight Attendant checklist to support reading opportunities within an aeroplane/airport role play. Single page PDF document with simple sentences for reading and pictorial support.

An in-flight menu to support purposeful reading within an airport/aeroplane role play station. Features photographic support and a range of words for early readers to decode.

An in-flight entertainment TV screen for display in an airport/aeroplane role play. Great to stick to the back of chairs in an aeroplane role play to give children a realistic in-flight experience and an opportunity to develop their reading skills.

A Powerpoint presentation featuring over 25 different ‘morning task’ activities. We’ve found this really useful to display first thing in the morning – to keep children busy learning as they sit on the carpet during Register time. Children study the scenes independently before we come together and discuss them as a whole class. Also great for those times when you find yourself with a spare five minutes and a classful of children! A selection of activities is provided, including: *Reading Tasks – children read words and find the corresponding objects hidden in pictures *Number Hunts – children find hidden numbers in a variety of scenes (1-10/1-20) *Tricky Word Wordsearches – children hunt for the tricky words hidden (always left > right) *2D Shape Hunts – children search for examples of 2D shapes in pictures *Spot the Difference – great for Listening and Attention, Communication and Language skills Some scenes are more challenging than others, and words in the Reading tasks are fully editable so you can make them more complex as children’s reading skills progress.

These Phase 3 picture spotters are filled with objects that contain each sound (Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs and Read Write Inc Set 2 sounds) . Each ‘sound room’ has at least 10 pictures or objects containing that sound. We have found these really useful to use at the beginning of Phonics lessons when we are introducing a new sound. 24 different sounds are included: ch, sh, th, ng, nk, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo (zoo), oo (book), ar, ur, or, ow (cow), oi, ear, air, ure, er, ay, ow (snow), ir, oy. Download includes Powerpoint and PDF versions. Initial sound picture spotters (A-Z) are also available for purchase in my store. “What’s in the sound room today?”

These initial sound posters are filled with objects that start with each letter’s sound. They are designed to support phonics development in the Early Years and to make learning fun. Each ‘sound room’ has at least 10 pictures or objects starting with that sound. We have found these really useful to use at the beginning of Phonics lessons when we are introducing a new sound. All sounds from A-Z are covered. Download includes Powerpoint and PDF versions. Digraph/Trigraph picture spotters for Phase 3 sounds (+ RWI Set 2) are also available for purchase in my store. “What’s in the sound room today?”

This pack features a CVC word list for Letters and Sounds Phase 2, as well as two files of corresponding word cards - one set with sound buttons (dots and dashes) underneath letters, and one set without. The words are organised into Letters and Sounds sets 1-5: Set 1 (s a t p) Set 2 (i n m d) Set 3 (g o c k) Set 4 (ck e u r) Set 5 (h b f ff l ll ss)

A selection of 20 different word cards, designed to support early reading of Phase 2 CVC words. Letters are laid along a ‘trail’, with the full word blended together at the end. We have found these incredibly useful as a phonics intervention activity. We encourage children to use their finger to trace the trail and blend the sounds together as they are reading. They are also great laminated for display, or as a reading activity that children can access independently in the book corner. Words included: tap, sit, pan, pig, mop, cat, map, cot, pen, mug, bag, hat, dog, fox, ten, jam, log, red, van, fish.

A selection of 20 different photograph cards and matching captions, featuring CVC words from Phase 2 (Letters and Sounds). We have found these really useful for a range of phonic activities - you can separate the captions from the photos and ask children to match them together. We also use them in phonics lessons, on displays, or have them available in the reading corner for children to access independently.

A complete planning and resource pack for Phonics intervention group activities - Phase 1 (Letters and Sounds). The planning format is fully editable and features over 25 separate sessions of group activities, covering all aspects from Phase 1 (sound discrimination, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds, oral blending and segmenting). There is also space for writing dates and teacher comments on the planning format. The pack includes both planning and resources, and as such is ‘ready to go’ - the entire pack can be printed out and handed to your teachers/TAs for a full term of intervention groups or focus group activities. Resources included: ‘Good listening’ flashcards Conversation starter question prompts A ‘Sound Hunt’ recording sheet Animal flashcards Rhyming cards Polysyllabic picture cards (for clapping out syllables) CVC picture cards The planning template is provided in both Word and PDF formats.

A simple one page PDF document for parents that outlines the End of Reception expectations for Reading, Writing and Mathematics, with examples from the Early Years Exemplification materials. Useful to give to parents during parents’ evenings as a reminder of what to aim for.

An A-Z sound mat to support early writing development. Each sound features a letter formation picture prompt, using photo-realistic images instead of clipart - to support younger pupils, EAL and SEN learners who benefit more from real-life imagery.