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Literacy for early childhood
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Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources for oral segmentation
4 activities to give children oral practice of segmenting phonemes. There is a powerpoint and an accompanying printable sheet for each activity.
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Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources: What's in the box activity pack
2 powerpoint 'What's in the box' activities, plus word and picture cards to use in practical games.
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Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources: Blending for reading & sound buttons
There are 3 different sets of powerpoint resources:
The first set displays the picture, then each letter in the word appears (without sound buttons)
The second set displays the picture, then each letter in the word appears (with sound buttons)
The third set shows just the word which is underlined with sound buttons.
Each file is organised into words the children will know when they have encountered individual sets of Phase 2 letters.
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Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources for oral blending
4 activities to give children oral practice of blending phonemes into words they are familiar with. There is a powerpoint and accompanying printable sheet for each activity.
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Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources: Segmenting for spelling resources
4 interactive powerpoints that can be used for spelling activities.
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Phase 2 Letters and Sounds High Frequency Words
PowerPoints:
Introduction to tricky words - shows each tricky word with animated sound buttons
Tricky word flashcards
Match the tricky words
Practise writing tricky words - the children are shown the word, then it is hidden whilst they write it, and it can be revealed to check their words.
Decodable HF words - flashcards.
Phase 2 decodable words - 43 pages, organised into letter sets.
Practise writing Phase 2 decodable words - the children are shown the word, then it is hidden whilst they write it, and it can be revealed to check their words.
Printable (pdf):
Three sets of words – decodable high frequency words; general decodable words and tricky words
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Phase 2 Letters and Sounds Captions
There are 3 types of powerpoints - some just display the caption and images, one shows 3 captions to match to a picture and the other shows 3 pictures to match to a caption.
The pdf files can be printed for display and activities.
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Letters and Sounds Phase 2 word / help mats
There are 3 versions of the mat:
One with pictures, tricky words and straight k and f
One with pictures, tricky words and curly k and f
One with no pictures
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Letters and Sounds Phase 5 word / help mats
The picture grapheme/word mat is to aid in the teaching and learning of further graphemes, and learning to read tricky words in phase 5. A pictorial example of each sound is shown with the letters to help children remember the graphemes. Also on the word mat are previous tricky words, which can be decoded in Phase 5, and the 11 tricky words for children to read in Phase 5.
The second word mat contains the alternate spellings for phonemes on page 144 of the Letters and Sounds document.
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Alphabet activities - powerpoints, display and activity pack
This set is useful to reinforce upper case letters. The alphabet song powerpoint does not contain music, but can be used to sing along to.
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Jack and the Beanstalk Fairy Tale activity pack - powerpoint story, display and activities
A powerpoint story plus the following resources to print:
A Beanstalk to print out (you can make it as tall as you wish)
Leaves and beans to add to the beanstalk
Black and white leaves to colour / paint
Number leaves - 0-20
Jack and the Beanstalk character masks - in colour and black and white
Jack and the Beanstalk - large lettering
Jack and the Beanstalk - heading on A4
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Rapunzel Fairy Tale activity pack - Powerpoint story, display resources and activities
A story of Rapunzel, plus writing sheets, wanted poster, sequencing pictures, book cover; display border and heading.
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The Gingerbread Man resource pack: powerpoints display activities and masks
A large pack of resources. It includes:
POWERPOINTS:
The Gingerbread Man Story
The Smelly Cheese Man (an alternative version of the story)
The Gingerbread Man poem
ACTIVITIES
Acrostic poem (spelling out Gingerbread Man)
Blank speech / thought bubbles: 8 different sizes and shapes to print out and fill in.
Counting cards: 0 to 20 in numerals and Gingerbread Man faces to match up / play snap etc.
Vocabulary cards: 18 words and matching pictures. Can be used for games, display or labelling activities.
Counting cards: Cards to laminate different numbers of Gingerbread men and a box for writing in the number.
Characters to print and use for stick puppets
Larger characters - 2 per A4 page for display / other activities.
Gingerbread Man clipart: black and white to colour
Gingerbread Man clipart: Colour
Gingerbread men to print: Large men in black and white, different versions, to make own faces / clothes etc.
Sequencing pictures: 10 small pictures. The children can cut them up and stick in sequence, or they can be laminated and used for an activity.
Story sheets: Contains the same images in the sequencing pictures but there is one picture per A4 page with lines for the children to compose their own story.
Wanted poster
Word mat containing vocabulary needed for the story.
Writing border: 2 different designs; colour and black and white.
DISPLAY
A4 Heading x 2
A-Z lettering - to cut out for display
Lettering/banner: The Gingerbread Man - prints onto 6 pages. There are 3 different designs.
Border: Images of the Gingerbread Man to frame a display
Alphabet a-z in lower case with a gingerbread man background
Number line 0-20 with digits and written numbers with a gingerbread man circle background
The Gingerbread Man poem
MASKS
13 character masks to act out the story.
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Letters and Sounds Phase 3 word / help mats
The picture grapheme and word mat:
This word mat is to aid in the teaching and learning of sounds and tricky words in phase 3. Each letter is accompanied by a relevant picture, to give children visual cues to help them learn each grapheme. Each group is represented in a different colour, so that it is easy to focus on the letter sounds being learnt. Also on the word mat are the 12 tricky words from phase 3 for the children to learn.
Grapheme and word mat:
The second word mat is similar to the first, but with the visual cues removed, to help those children who know which letters represent which sounds, but still need prompts to recognise the written letters.
Phase 3 word mat - contains visual cues for Jolly Phonics.
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Hansel and Gretel Fairy tale activity pack- powerpoint story, display and activities
A story in powerpoint, sequencing cards, heading, lettering, retelling pages, story sequencing and characters for role play.
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EYFS Animals topic: Number rhymes pack
A set of number rhyme resources to use during an Animal topic in the Early Years. It includes display headings, rhymes, props etc.
The rhymes are:
5 Baby turtles
5 Little birds
5 Little monkeys bouncing
5 Little monkeys swinging
5 Little spiders
8 Enormous dinosaurs
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EYFS Food topic: Number rhymes pack
A set of number rhyme resources to use when teaching about food in the Early Years. It includes display headings, rhymes, props etc.
The rhymes are:
One potato Two potato
5 Big Lemons
5 Crispy Pancakes
5 Currant Buns
5 Fat Peas
10 Fat Sausages
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Upper and lower case small alphabet cards for games
Two sets of cards, one with comic sans font, the other Sassoon.
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Initial letter sounds / phonics alphabet display
This set contains 4 different alphabet resources.
Set 1: A4 Alphabet cards
These contain a large letter with 3 or 4 pictures beginning with that initial sound. There is one letter per page, in portrait.
Set 2: A4 Alphabet
These contain a large letter plus pictures of objects that can be spelt phonically. There is one letter per page, in landscape
Set 3: A4 Alphabet with HFW
These contain a large letter plus pictures of objects that can be spelt phonically. It also includes HFW that are not spelt phonically. There is one letter per page, in landscape.
Set 4: Blank Alphabet
This set contains the alphabet in black and white for children to colour and decorate to make their own alphabet.
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Alphabet / Letters, digraphs and trigraphs A5 flashcards / display - 72 graphemes
This set contains all the letters of the alphabet, consonant digraphs and vowel digraphs and trigraphs in the Y1 spelling appendix.
The cards are in pdf format for you to print out as many times as you like. They can be used as flashcards, for display or for group or individual use.
There are 2 cards per A5 page. Each card contains pictures and a list of words, including the relevant common exception words for Y1. The single letter sounds contain the matching keyboard letter so they can help children on the keyboard.
There are 3 separate files:
PHONIC CARDS 1
26 letters of the alphabet plus ch sh th and wh
PHONICS CARDS 2
All the graphemes identified in the Y1 spelling appendix
PHONICS CARDS 3
Extra graphemes from the Letters and Sounds document ( ff ll ss zz ck ey ng and ure)