These are based on the Year 1 Common Exception Words for the new National Curriculum. It includes: - Monster Mission (find the word 10 times). - Monster Mayhem which have groups of the Common Exception Words to find. - Monster Mix Up where the words are jumbled up. There are two versions of this a cut and stick and a written version. Please note a and I are not included Ideal for independent work during guided reading or homework.

A fun music themed matching activity. Cut out the keyboard with the words and mix them up. Match to the correct keyboard by identifying the correct sound within the word. Could also be used as a bingo type game where the caller says the word and the players say their sound if their sound is in that word.

Once they’ve been cut out (sorry I know its a fiddly one), children pick a sound and find the 4 puzzle pieces that begin or end with that sound. Consonant letters apart from k (only 2 pictures that started with this sound) can be used as a writing activity as all the pictures can be spelt phonetically.A recording sheet has been included. Vowel letters are initial sounds.

This pack includes all the Year 2 Common Exception Words. How to play Play as a group or in pairs. Players close or cover their eyes. Adult or chosen child hides one of the bee cards underneath a hive. Players take turns to guess which hive by saying the sound or word that’s on the hive. Winner hides the bee next.

A fun music themed matching activity. Cut out the keyboard with the words and mix them up. Match to the correct keyboard by identifying the correct sound within the word. Could also be used as a bingo type game where the caller says the word and the players say their sound if their sound is in that word. .

The idea is that the coloured puzzle piece are sorted by the pictures which are either for the initial sound or has that sound in the word ( ck, ll, ff, ss). They then make the sound when put together either using the black and white base or without to make it challenging. The same pictures have been used on both letters for ff,ll,ss and there are a couple of word puzzle on the jigsaw piece i.e me__, stu__.

This pack includes all the Year 1 Common Exception Words. How to play Play as a group or in pairs. Players close or cover their eyes. Adult or chosen child hides one of the bee cards underneath a hive. Players take turns to guess which hive by saying the sound or word that’s on the hive. Winner hides the bee next.

The idea is that the coloured puzzle piece are sorted by the pictures which has that sound in the word. They then make the sound when put together either using the black and white base or without to make it challenging. Some sounds have word puzzles (_s_, P__l) and may have the same pictures on both letters for that sound.

A board type games that involves crossing the river using the stepping stones. There are two types of boards - picture and sounds. Picture board can be used to write the Phase 3 sound, sound board can be used to say the sound. Ideally play in pairs with a 1-3 dice. A fun alternative to quick write and flashcards at the start of your phonic sessions.

A set of tricky words fans for all the phases. Each phase is a different colour. If you like this resource, then come and have a look at our other fans we have for sale: Phase 2 Word Fans Phase 3 Word Fans Phase 4 Word Fans Phase 5 Word Fans

An activity which involves matching the letters to the sound. Could also be used in the pairs memory game.

These games have no prep at all, just print and play. Players start anywhere on the outside board. Roll the dice and move that many spaces, then work out which sound is in the picture. Colour the correct sound in the players chosen colour. Either play until all the sounds are coloured or until one player gets five in a row. Single player can try to get five in a row.

Number line 0-20 with pictures and words.

Sort the ow words by the sound it makes

Sort word that have the letter y by the sound it makes

Highlight all the oa sounds

Either call out the sounds and children put a counter on the picture matching that sound or play it as I spy and children tell you what picture starts with that sound and if they are correct they put a counter on it. Could also be played in pairs. 4 picture boards and a set of sounds

For copyright reasons I am unable to use the actual Bee Bot character as a counter so I've used superheroes instead. It can be used two ways. Use the dice which has a forward arrow, 2 half turn, 2 quarter turns and a whole turn. Alternatively children take turns in directing each other to different places on the mat.

This is played in the same way as snakes and ladders only you follow the direction of the car when you land on that square. There are 12 boards in total. Game Boards CVCC words 1-2 : uses sets 1 to 7 letters CVCC words 3: words using Phase 3 graphemes CVCC words 4: Polysyllabic words CCV and CCVC words 1: uses sets 1 to 7 letters CCV and CCVC words 2-3: words using Phase 3 graphemes CCV and CCVC words 4: Polysyllabic words CCVCC/CCCVC/CCCVCC words 1: uses sets 1 to 7 letters CCVCC/CCCVC/CCCVCC words 2: words using Phase 3 graphemes CCVCC/CCCVC/CCCVCC words 3: Polysyllabic words Tricky words

Looking for a fun way to practice reading or writing words during Phonics? Then this is for you. Kym's Game is a memory game where pupils have to remember which picture is missing. It can be used as a writing activity or which the word boards as a reading activity. Pupils identify which picture they think is missing by either writing or cover the word on the word boards. Challenge slides are included for each game to solve. Take a look at our video preview to see a game in action! Our Phase 4 version includes 234 slides which make up 17 games covering words from set 1 to set 5 in the Letters and Sounds document. CVCC words has 5 games CCV/CCVC words has 9 games Polysyllabic words has 2 games CCVCC/CCCVC/CCVC words has 1 game Most of the games use either Set 1-7 sounds or Phase sounds.