To celebrate Roald Dahl day, we want to give something to teachers and educators, who are preparing activities to mark the great achievements from the story telling genius. We have designed 16 fantastic activities, based around familiar stories. Some activities are suitable for EYFS/SEN and KS1 children, others are suitable for children in KS2. There are a range of exciting science experiments for a selection of characters from familiar stories, there is a crossword, a wordsearch and some revolting rhyme ideas. We have even included matching cards which can be played where two of the same need to be matched for younger learners, but then we have designed a higher level matching cards game, which takes a little more thinking about, matching 2 objects that relate to particular stories written by Roald Dahl. Some of these activities have been created to really test your knowledge of Roald Dahl stories. We hope you enjoy a little gift from us to you. Happy Roald Dahl Day :-)

EYFS, SEN & KS1 Read Trace Write sheets for Phonics Phase 2 CVC words. This is a lovely activity for children in their first stages of development in reading and writing. The activity includes clear, bright illustrations and photographs to support children in their recognition and sounding out of the words. The Phase 2 words shown on the cards should be sounded out and read first, then they can be traced by the learners. The letters and sounds which make up each word can be then written in the grids provided. Encourage children to also look at the shape of the words as this does help when writing the words themselves.

These are gorgeous ID badges, which can be used for children in Year 2 as their SATs tests begin to approach. FREE to download. Can be used when doing special SATs preparation, the Secret Agent ID cards can be worn to show they are on a special assignment, to help to make the SATs just a little less stressful.

This is a truly gorgeous powerpoint presentation to support children in their sounding out and blending as part of the Phase 2 Letters and Sounds. Benji Book the dog send letters into his dog bowls for the children to sound out and blend. They have a go at reading the words, then Benji Boo will make an image appear for children to check if they were right. A great way teaching tool to support children and their learning of early phonics CVC words. Applefortheteacher.co.uk putting the love in learning…

This is a lovely activity for children with Special Educational Needs working below the national curriculum. There are illustrations and photographs of animals. The children can listen to the sounds of the animals which an adult can play on the computer or make the sounds themselves, the children can then point to the animal that would make that particular sound. Can also be used to encourage children to name the animals, or point to animals when prompted by name.

These are great sheets which I have used with a range of learners, including learners with Special Educational Needs who were not able to write. They signed/verbalised their caption for an adult to write down word for word. A great assessment tool for all learners to show their level of understanding. Can also be used for children to write their own captions for EYFS, KS1 and KS2. A fabulous resource to inspire creative writing and thoughts.

Create a high frequency word apple tree, or use the apples to provide a support for reading and spelling for individuals. Great for EYFS and children with SEN as well as KS1 learners.

Support children in their pencil control when beginning the early stages in writing. Use alongside motor skills activities such as threading, painting, cutting and sticking etc, to build up muscles and build up control. Great for learners with SEN who have difficulty with writing and EYFS learners.

These are a great bundle of resources, focusing on the sounds of CVC words. Find the initial sounds, the middle sounds and the end sounds, encouraging children to really listen to the sounds in the words. CVC read and copy supports reading and writing, sounding out and blending the word and forming letters to copy the word, looking and letter and word shapes. CVC sound and spell activity is an extension activity which encourages children to look at the picture and say what they can see, sounding out the word for spelling. A lovely selection of activities to support phonics, reading, writing, spelling, speaking and listening for EYFS, KS1 and learners with SEN.

This is a set of matching pair cards. These can be used to build sentences of past and present tense. Also included is a sheet with words already given where knowledge can be assessed on independently using past and present tense in the correct context. Putting the love back in learning…

Check out a challenge choose between three levels, using skills from science, literacy and maths. Great activities to support the key skills being learned which can be completed when the activity in class has been completed. Keeping that creativity flowing and those minds working…

This is a lovely activity, the dog Benji Boo encourages children to sound and say the words as they appear in the powerpoint, a picture of the word appears to check if they are right. Very child friendly and very engaging. Also included is a phonics train, displaying phase 2 words to sound and say. Putting the love in learning…

Here you will find a great set of comprehension activities for young learners. Starting with photographs and illustrations 20 pages in total to download, to encourage children to look at detail in the pictures and prompt discussion. Imaginative ideas can come from discussing and thinking carefully about what is happening in a picture. Children can then draw their own interpretation of what will happen next and explain it. A great tool to encourage information retrieval and confidence with ideas and imagination. Also included are 3 short comprehension activities, with short simple sentences, to not overwhelm new readers with difficult text and language. The comprehension is the key function of these activities, to develop tools to find and fetch information and understand what has been read. Putting children at the core of their learning…

This is a great bundle of comprehension activities for children who are not able to write legibly, but are able to read. In order to assess reading and comprehension skills we need to check their understanding. These activities are brilliant for doing just that. The activities encourage children read the story / instructions and then find the sentences/pictures to stick in the correct places to show the answers. Other sheets encourage looking at pictures or reading information to find clues and children can make a mark on the answers they believe to be correct. A great activity for children with Special Educational Needs who find writing a struggle.

This is a lovely set of resources to support teaching the prefix ‘un’ in KS1, suitable for Year 1 and Year 2 learners. The powerpoint is interactive and very child friendly, enthusing and engaging. Also included are worksheets to assess understanding and a word search activity to support vocabulary building of words with the ‘un’ prefix.

Here are 7 different activities to support the ‘All about me’ topic in EYFS. There are 2 cute poems which children can make personal to them as well as a range of other activities including a maths about me and a literacy about me sheet. These are lovely activities for young learners to realise how unique and special they all are.

This is a great engaging activity to assess and teach early comprehension skills. Read the instructions and complete the task. Cross curricular to link with prepositions. Great for EYFS, children with SEN and KS1 children.

This is a whole bundle of resources to support children in KS2 with their spellings. A variety of sheets are included to make learning spellings more fun. Putting a little more engagement and love in learning…

These gorgeous activities support children with special educational needs and children who are just beginning to recognise words and letters. Some children can often find looking at letter and word shapes and matching them to images a much more logical way of learning to read. Both of these activities can be used as support with phonics based activities or word work. They can be laminated and used over and over if required.

A fantastic tried and tested activity. This has been used with learners with Special Educational Needs who struggled with the phonics phases. They grasped the ending letter sounds by the shapes of letters and words, using images to support. Laminate the sound boards, images and letter sounds. Select a sound board, choose a picture then sound out what can be seen and find the ending letter sound to complete the word. 5 different sound boards included. Great for children with SEN working below or on the early National Curriculum. Also suitable for EYFS and KS1 learners. Putting children at the core of their learning…