Children to draw or cut/stick pictures of their family onto the family tree.
Children love talking about their family! A great topic in the EYFS - All about us
Real and Alien words game
Print and stick aliens onto small bin (baskets)
Basket of real & alien words for children to read.
Real words go into Tim bin
Alien words go into Mit bin
Great for helping children segment and blend the simple words and decide if it is a real word or an alien word (great to support children going into Year1 for phonics test)
Children to use WB pens or counters to cover the sound they have (that the adult has said)
First one to cover all sounds – shouts “bingo” and is the winner
Great way to see if children know their sounds and making teaching sounds FUN!
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.
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.
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!
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.