The handbook includes background information for teachers about common spelling patterns, useful strategies, including mnemonics, and spelling and phonic games. Many of the ideas resources have been posted elsewhere - acknowledged at end.

7 sets of cards in JP order. There are decodable words with matching pictures. If you cut them up and laminate them they would be suitable for independent work, for a small group working with an adult, or for your whole class phonics.

I plan to show this powerpoint on the IWB and use it with children who need to move from just writing cvc words to being able to write short sentences. Ideal for groups working with individual whiteboards. you could also print off the pages that show the complete sentence, laminate those pages, cut off the writing and use for matching sentences with pictures.

I used these wordsearches with Year 1 children as an independent activity during guided reading. They'd also be useful for Year 2 and KS2 children, depending on which phonic patterns children are looking at. I've uploaded more -but you can only put 20 documents on one resource.

I used these in my Reception class when we had a whole school French day. Some language and activities would also be useful for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.

This is a scheme of work showing progression from Reception to Year 6.

<p></p><p>I’ve pulled together various resources such as quick fire activities that I’d previously uploaded separately, and games and links suggested by other posters (notably bluerose) into 1 document.</p><p></p>

A handout on Phonics Training which includes a background to recent changes (rationale for introduction of Letters and Sounds), the principles of synthetic phonics, useful links and practical phonics games. I can't claim any credit for the games as they were uploaded separately by jambam

<p>A set of cards divided into character, setting, object and time. Sprinkles uploaded some fantastic cards back in 2006 (http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=3001354). I’ve used those original images, and then added quite a few extra ones. I use them with my Reception class for whole class storytelling. For older children, they’d also work as a stimulus for individual or group story writing.</p>

I've used these word searches with Year 1 children as independent activities during guided reading. There are more wordsearches uploaded separately as there is a limit of 20 documents per resource.

I printed these off (cut to A5) and laminated them. I find them useful when setting up the different areas in the classroom, if my mind has gone blank.

Just what the label says! dinx67 posted a link to a great minibeast pack on the Woodland Trust Nature Detective website. The pack includes a lovely set of top trump cards. They're a little small and hard to read for younger children, so I've used the sites criteria and numbers to create a simplified version.

<p>A selection of quick fire activities (suitable for use in plenary or as 5 minute time fillers) to encourage children to think about Vocabulary, Connectives, Openings and Punctuation. They are designed to be cut into strips and then laminated. I find it useful to have a separate bag for each of the 4 areas, to make it easier to (literally and metaphorically) dip into them. I made them to use with a Year 1 class, but they may be useable or adaptable for other ages</p>

<p>Just what the title says.</p>

Flapbooks are in 3 columns. Instead of cutting into cards, you fold the third column over covering the middle column, hiding the picture. Cut along the horizontal line in the 3rd column to make a flap. Children then read the word and lift the flap to see the picture and check if they were right.

Colourful pictures to cut out and laminate. Children then order them by length.

Children need to create a potion that contains exactly 10 legs. How many different ways can they do it? Worksheet with pictures to give children ideas.

14 sets of words that can be used when playing the PiPs Full Circle game. They are all CVC words, so suitable for the early stagees of blending and segmenting.

5 sets of bingo cards - 1 for each of the long vowel phonemes, each containing a mixture of spelling patterns for each phoneme. There are 6 cards in each set - enough for a group. If a whole class set is required, just change the colour of the text box so that each group has a different colour.

A week's worth of resources to introduce repeated addition to a Year 1 class: plan, Promethean flipchart and resources for children to use each day.

Just what the title says really. 7 sets of cards in JP order. There are decodable words with matching pictures. If you cut them up and laminate them they would be suitable for independent work, for a small group working with an adult, or for your whole class phonics.