A writing aid created to help children add more detail when describing what characters look like.

A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning the ‘ure’ vowel trigraph (Letters and Sounds Phase 3, Read Write Inc. Set 3). Great for one-to-one and intervention as well as group and class use. Includes: ♦ Bingo (calling card + 32 game cards) ♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game) ♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game) ♦ Loop Cards (32 ‘I have… / Who has…’ cards) ♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row) ♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win) ♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game) ♦ Starlight Sudoku (phonics-based selection of 4 by 4 Sudoku puzzles) ♦ Battleships (phonics-based variation of the traditional game) Most of the resources contain a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘ph’ consonant digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable syllable slides. ♦ A slide showing a set of common ‘ph’ words. ♦ An interactive ‘ph or f?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien Word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check.

UPDATE: Upper case letters moved so they in line with their lower case equivalent. Handwriting lines added over letters. Punctuation moved to its own box. Designed to be printed double-sided. One side contains: Year 1 Exception words grouped into those with similar spelling patterns where possible. Lower case and upper case letters on handwriting lines. ‘bed’ pictures to support children who reverse b’s and d’s. Examples of common -s and -es plurals. Examples of common -ed and -ing verbs. Examples of common -er nouns. Examples of common -er and -est adjectives. Examples of common un- words. Examples of some common compound words. The other side contains graphemes grouped according to their phoneme. We may produce a Year 2 version depending on popularity.

A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning the 'ff' consonant digraph. Includes: ♦ Short Bingo (for group or class use) ♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game) ♦ Rocket 'n' Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game)

Year 1 number and place value knowledge organiser mat. Designed to be enlarged to A3, laminated and used for reference and revision. Please comment if you find this useful or if you think it could be improved in any way. :-)

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘oo’ (long u) grapheme. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Vowel phoneme sound chart. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ Animated, decodable ‘syllable’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘oo’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘oo’ words. ♦ A ‘How many words can you make…?’ silde. ♦ An interactive ‘Which spelling is correct?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the a-e split digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ Animated, decodable ‘syllable’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘a-e’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘a-e’ words. ♦ Add the ‘magic e’ slides. ♦ An interactive ‘Which spelling is correct?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien Word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file was created in PowerPoint 2003 so should be compatible with all newer versions. It is in .pps format.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘x’ letter sound. It contains… ♦ Grapheme and picture slides. ♦ Find ‘x’ in the alphabet slide. ♦ Lower and upper-case animated letter formation slides. ♦ Set of decodable, real word slides. ♦ Set of decodable, alien word slides. ♦ An ‘x’ sentence slide. ♦ An interactive ‘Is it x…?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings. The file is in .pps format and should work in PowerPoint (PC) from 2003 onwards.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘oe’ vowel digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Vowel phoneme sound chart. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable multi-syllable word slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘oe’ grapheme. ♦ A ‘silly sentence’ containing lots of ‘oe’ words. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien Word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.

This book contains 170 pages of printables to help children learn to read and spell words containing a range of consonant digraphs and trigraphs. It covers the following sounds: sh, ch, th, qu, ph, wh, tch, ck, ng, nk, ff, ll, ss and zz For each sound there is a selection of sheets including: ♦ Reading and Spelling Practice ♦ Spell the Pictures ♦ Look/Write/Cover/Check ♦ Handwriting Practice ♦ Find the Graphemes ♦ Wordsearches  ♦ Anagrams ♦ Spelling Lists ♦ Spelling Strips ♦ Word Cards ♦ Alien Words This product is a digital download in .pdf format.

This is a BIG book containing loads of printables to help children learn to read and spell words containing long vowel phonemes. It covers the following sounds: a-e (split digraph), ai, ay, other long a, ea, ee, ie, ey, -y (long e), i-e (split digraph), igh, -y (long i), o-e (split digraph), oa, ow (long o), ol, u-e (split digraph), oo (long u), ew, other long u New sounds added: e-e (split digraph), i (long e), ie (long i), i (long i), oe, o (long o), ue, ui, ou (long u) For each sound there is a selection of sheets including: ♦ Reading and Spelling Practice ♦ Spell the Pictures ♦ Look/Write/Cover/Check ♦ Handwriting Practice ♦ Find the Graphemes ♦ Wordsearches ♦ Anagrams ♦ Spelling Lists ♦ Spelling Strips

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘ou’ vowel digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Vowel phoneme sound chart. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ Animated, decodable multi-syllable word slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘ou’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘ou’ words. ♦ A ‘How many words can you make…?’ silde. ♦ An interactive ‘Which spelling is correct…?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘ue’ digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Vowel phoneme sound chart. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ Animated, decodable multi-syllable word slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘ue’ grapheme. ♦ A ‘silly sentence’ containing lots of ‘ue’ words. ♦ An interactive ‘Real Word or Alien Word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘ey’ vowel digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Vowel phoneme sound chart. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable multi-syllable word slides. ♦ A slide showing lots of decodable words containing the ‘ey’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘ey’ words. ♦ An interactive ‘Which Spelling?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien Word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘ou’ digraph as in ‘soup’. ♦ Grapheme and picture slides. ♦ Grapheme chart. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘syllable’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘ou’ (soup) grapheme. ♦ A ‘silly sentence’ containing ‘ou’ (soup) words. ♦ An interactive ‘ou’ (as in cloud) or ‘ou’ (as in soup) quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint (PC) from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘y’ letter sound. It contains… ♦ Grapheme and picture slides. ♦ Find ‘y’ in the alphabet slide. ♦ Set of phoneme practice slides - say the sound then say the picture. ♦ Lower and upper-case animated letter formation slides. ♦ Set of decodable, real word slides. ♦ Set of decodable, alien word slides. ♦ Three alliterative sentence slides. ♦ An interactive ‘Is it y…?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint (PC) from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check.

A selection of printable resources to support teaching and learning initial letter sounds and CVC (Consonant Vowel Consonant) words. Great for consolidation, homework or homeschooling. This pack includes: ♦ 25 letter sound sheets (every letter except c) ♦ 3 initial sound CVC sheets ♦ 3 middle sound CVC sheets ♦ 3 final sound CVC sheets ♦ 3 mixed sound CVC sheets ♦ 2 CVC picture spelling sheets ♦ 2 CVC picture spelling strip sheets ♦ CVC word test sheet ♦ Set of CVC picture and CVC word cards

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘ie’ vowel digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Vowel phoneme sound chart. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘ea’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘ea’ words. ♦ A ‘Can you make the verb past tense…?’ silde. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.