High Frequency/ Red words or sight words PowerPoint to help your children ‘remember’ these words.
Children need to automatically remember/recall these words and not use phonetic knowledge.
A great PowePoint listening game for whole class lessons.
Children need to identify the sound they can hear, this is the beginning of teaching phonics.
Listening and attention games are great for communication too!
Dear Zoo themed lesson
Dear Zoo animal sounds - great for listening and attentions skills and phonics
Dear Zoo animal mat (pictures of the animals and the names)
Letter to the Zoo template
Initial sound mats that you can print and laminate and children can write initial sound using WB pen or magnetic letters.
A great Phonics activity.
14 Mats with different pictures for initial sounds.
Game to encourage children to speak
Sentences:
The bus is red.
The cat is black.
The cat is in the box.
The boy is on the swing.
The pigs are in the mud.
The duck is wet.
Show children the image first, encourage talk to your partner.
Draw ideas from children and then show sentence.