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Literacy for early years
The 'ear' Phonics Games Pack (Phase 3)
A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning the ‘ear’ vowel trigraph (Letters and Sounds Phase 3, Read Write Inc. Set 3). Great for one-to-one and intervention as well as group and class use.
Includes:
♦ Short Bingo
♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game)
♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game)
♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row)
♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win)
♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game)
♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game)
♦ Starlight Sudoku (phonics-based selection of 4 by 4 Sudoku puzzles)
♦ Battleships (phonics-based variation of the traditional game)
Most of the resources contain a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
The letter 'r' PowerPoint (Phase 2)
This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘r’ letter sound. It contains…
♦ Grapheme and picture slides.
♦ Find ‘r’ in the alphabet slide.
♦ Set of phoneme practice slides - say the sound then say the picture.
♦ Lower and upper-case animated letter formation slides.
♦ Set of decodable, real word slides.
♦ Set of decodable, alien word slides.
♦ Three alliterative sentence slides.
♦ An interactive ‘Is it r…?’ quiz.
♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien?’ quiz.
Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.
The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint (PC) from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check.
The 'ow' (as in cow) Phonics Games Pack (Phase 3)
A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning the ‘ow’ vowel digraph (Letters and Sounds Phase 3, Read Write Inc. Set 3). Great for one-to-one and intervention as well as group and class use.
Includes:
♦ Bingo (calling card + 32 game cards)
♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game)
♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game)
♦ Loop Cards (32 ‘I have… / Who has…’ cards)
♦ Jigsaw Puzzle (match the pictures with the words)
♦ Tarsia (join the triangles so that the words are alongside the correct pictures)
♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row)
♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win)
♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game)
♦ Planetary Pick-Up (2-player roll around the board collecting things/aliens)
♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game)
♦ Starlight Sudoku (phonics-based selection of 4 by 4 Sudoku puzzles)
♦ Battleships (phonics-based variation of the traditional game)
Most of the resources contain a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
The 'oi' Phonics Games Pack (Phase 3)
A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning the ‘oi’ vowel digraph (Letters and Sounds Phase 3, Read Write Inc. Set 3). Great for one-to-one and intervention as well as group and class use.
Includes:
♦ Bingo (calling card + 32 game cards)
♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game)
♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game)
♦ Loop Cards (32 ‘I have… / Who has…’ cards)
♦ Jigsaw Puzzle (match the pictures with the words)
♦ Tarsia (join the triangles so that the words are alongside the correct pictures)
♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row)
♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win)
♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game)
♦ Planetary Pick-Up (2-player roll around the board collecting things/aliens)
♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game)
♦ Starlight Sudoku (phonics-based selection of 4 by 4 Sudoku puzzles)
♦ Battleships (phonics-based variation of the traditional game)
Most of the resources contain a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
The 'er' (stretched) Phonics Games Pack (Phase 3)
A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning the ‘er’ vowel digraph (Letters and Sounds Phase 3, Read Write Inc. Set 3). Great for one-to-one and intervention as well as group and class use.
Includes:
♦ Bingo (calling card + 32 game cards)
♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game)
♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game)
♦ Loop Cards (32 ‘I have… / Who has…’ cards)
♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row)
♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win)
♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game)
♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game)
♦ Starlight Sudoku (phonics-based selection of 4 by 4 Sudoku puzzles)
♦ Battleships (phonics-based variation of the traditional game)
Most of the resources contain a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
The 'th' Phonics Games Pack
A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning the ‘th’ consonant digraph (Letters and Sounds Phase 3, Read Write Inc. Set 1). Great for one-to-one and intervention as well as group and class use.
Includes:
♦ Short Bingo
♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game)
♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game)
♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row)
♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win)
♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game)
♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game)
♦ Fuel-Up (2-player roll the dice and read game)
♦ Battleships (phonics-based variation of the traditional game)
Most of the resources contain a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
Bundle
The Letters & Sounds Phase 5 Games Bundle
This bundle includes the following games packs:
ay, ou, ie, ea, oi/oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ew, au, ey, a-e, i-e, o-e and u-e
(Note: ‘ph’, ‘oe’ and ‘e-e’ are not included as there are not many easily decodable words that contain these graphemes.)
Save more than 50% compared with buying each pack individually! Each pack contains a set of games that focus on a particular grapheme. Great for independent/paired consolidation or intervention.
Games included:
♦ Bingo (calling card + 32 game cards)
♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game)
♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game)
♦ Loop Cards (32 ‘I have… / Who has…’ cards)
♦ Jigsaw Puzzle (match the pictures with the words)
♦ Tarsia (join the triangles so that the words are alongside the correct pictures)
♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row)
♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win)
♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game)
♦ Planetary Pick-Up (2-player roll around the board collecting things/aliens)
♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game)
♦ Phonics Fuel-Up (2-player dice game)
♦ Battleships (phonics-based variation of the traditional game)
♦ Starlight Sudoku (phonics-based selection of 4 by 4 Sudoku puzzles)
♦ Short Bingo
Please note that the games available vary from pack to pack.
Bundle
The Mixed Vowel Phoneme Games Bundle
Each games pack in this bundle contains multiple graphemes focusing on a particular phoneme.
The games are a great way to revise/consolidate graphemes once they have been covered individually as well as introduce some of the less common phoneme/grapheme correspondences. Perfect for Year 1 Phonics Screening Check preparation.
This bundle includes the following games packs:
eɪ (long a) - ay (day), ai (train), a-e (made), eigh (eight), ey (they), aigh (straight), ei (veil), eig (reign), a (apron), ea (steak)
iː (long e) - ee (sheep), ea (leaf), e-e (theme), e (me), ie (thief), ey (key) -y (copy), i (ski)
aɪ (long i) - i-e (nine), igh (night), ie (pie), -y (fly), i (find), uy (guy) eigh (height)
əʊ (long o) - o-e (nose), oa (coat), ow (snow), oe (toe), o (go), ol (gold) ough (dough)
u: (long u) - u-e (cube), oo (moon), ew (grew), ue (blue), o (to), ui (fruit) ough (through), u (unit), ou (soup)
aʊ (ou) - ou (loud), ow (cow)
ɪə (ear) - ear (year), eer (deer), ere (here), ier (pier), eir (weird)
eə (air) - air (chair), are (scare), ear (bear), ere (there), eir (their), ar (wary) ayor (mayor)
ɜː (ir) - er (herd), ir (bird), ur (turn), ear (pearl), or (word), our (journey)
ɔː (or) - or (storm), oor (door), ore (score), our (court), oar (board), aw (claw), au (haunt), a (ball), al (chalk), augh (taught), ough (thought)
ɔɪ (oy) - oy (boy), oi (coin)
Save more than 50% over buying each pack individually!!
Bundle
The Mixed Blends Games Bundle (Letters & Sounds Phase 4)
The games packs in this bundle are designed to consolidate children’s ability to blend sounds to read words (Letters & Sounds Phase 4). Perfect for intervention and Year 1 Phonics Screening Check preparation.
This bundle includes the following games packs:
CVC Words Set 1
CVC Words Set 2
CCVC Words
CVCC Words
CCVCC Words
Tricky Blends
Mixed Blends
Save more than 50% over buying each pack individually!!
The BIG Book of Consonant Digraphs and Trigraphs
This book contains 170 pages of printables to help children learn to read and spell words containing a range of consonant digraphs and trigraphs. It covers the following sounds:
sh, ch, th, qu, ph, wh, tch, ck, ng, nk, ff, ll, ss and zz
For each sound there is a selection of sheets including:
♦ Reading and Spelling Practice
♦ Spell the Pictures
♦ Look/Write/Cover/Check
♦ Handwriting Practice
♦ Find the Graphemes
♦ Wordsearches
♦ Anagrams
♦ Spelling Lists
♦ Spelling Strips
♦ Word Cards
♦ Alien Words
This product is a digital download in .pdf format.
The letter 'j' PowerPoint (Phase 3)
This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘j’ letter sound. It contains…
♦ Grapheme and picture slides.
♦ Find ‘j’ in the alphabet slide.
♦ Set of phoneme practice slides - say the sound then say the picture.
♦ Lower and upper-case animated letter formation slides.
♦ Set of decodable, real word slides.
♦ Set of decodable, alien word slides.
♦ Three alliterative sentence slides.
♦ An interactive ‘Is it j…?’ quiz.
♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien?’ quiz.
Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.
The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint (PC) from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check.
The letter 'f' PowerPoint (Phase 2)
This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘f’ letter sound. It contains…
♦ Grapheme and picture slides.
♦ Find ‘f’ in the alphabet slide.
♦ Set of phoneme practice slides - say the sound then say the picture.
♦ Lower and upper-case animated letter formation slides.
♦ Set of decodable, real word slides.
♦ Set of decodable, alien word slides.
♦ Three alliterative sentence slides.
♦ An interactive ‘Is it f…?’ quiz.
♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien?’ quiz.
Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.
The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint (PC) from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check.
The 'x/y/z/zz' Phonics Games Pack (Letters & Sounds Phase 3)
A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning the x, y, z and zz sounds (Letters and Sounds Phase 3). Great for one-to-one and intervention as well as group and class use.
Includes:
♦ Bingo (calling card + 32 game cards)
♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game)
♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game)
♦ Loop Cards (32 ‘I have… / Who has…’ cards)
♦ Jigsaw Puzzle (match the pictures with the words)
♦ Tarsia (join the triangles so that the words are alongside the correct pictures)
♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row)
♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win)
♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game)
♦ Planetary Pick-Up (2-player roll around the board collecting things/aliens)
♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game)
♦ Phonics Fuel-Up (2-player dice game)
♦ Battleships (phonics-based variation of the traditional game)
Most of the resources contain a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
The 'tch' Phonics Games Pack
A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning the ‘tch’ consonant trigraph. Great for one-to-one and intervention as well as group and class use.
Includes:
♦ Short Bingo
♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game)
♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game)
♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row)
♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win)
♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game)
♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game)
♦ Starlight Sudoku (phonics-based selection of 4 by 4 Sudoku puzzles)
♦ Battleships (phonics-based variation of the traditional game)
Most of the resources contain a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
The 'ch' Phonics Games Pack
A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning the ‘ch’ consonant digraph. Great for one-to-one and intervention as well as group and class use.
Includes:
♦ Short Bingo
♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game)
♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game)
♦ Jigsaw Puzzle (match the pictures with the words)
♦ Tarsia (join the triangles so that the words are alongside the correct pictures)
♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row)
♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win)
♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game)
♦ Planetary Pick-Up (2-player roll around the board collecting things/aliens)
♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game)
♦ Battleships (phonics-based variation of the traditional game)
Most of the resources contain a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
The 'nk' Phonics Games Pack
A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning the ‘nk’ consonant digraph. Great for one-to-one and intervention as well as group and class use.
Includes:
♦ Bingo (calling card + 32 game cards)
♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game)
♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game)
♦ Loop Cards (32 ‘I have… / Who has…’ cards)
♦ Jigsaw Puzzle (match the pictures with the words)
♦ Tarsia (join the triangles so that the words are alongside the correct pictures)
♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row)
♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win)
♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game)
♦ Planetary Pick-Up (2-player roll around the board collecting things/aliens)
♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game)
♦ Phonics Fuel-Up (2-player dice game)
♦ Battleships (phonics-based variation of the traditional game)
Most of the resources contain a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
The 'er' (short) Phonics Games Pack
A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning the ‘er’ vowel grapheme (short pronunciation at the end of words). Great for one-to-one and intervention as well as group and class use.
Includes:
♦ Bingo (calling card + 32 game cards)
♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game)
♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game)
♦ Loop Cards (32 ‘I have… / Who has…’ cards)
♦ Jigsaw Puzzle (match the pictures with the words)
♦ Tarsia (join the triangles so that the words are alongside the correct pictures)
♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row)
♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win)
♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game)
♦ Planetary Pick-Up (2-player roll around the board collecting things/aliens)
♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game)
♦ Starlight Sudoku (phonics-based selection of 4 by 4 Sudoku puzzles)
♦ Battleships (phonics-based variation of the traditional game)
Most of the resources contain a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
The letter 'b' PowerPoint (Phase 2)
This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘b’ letter sound. It contains…
♦ Grapheme and picture slides.
♦ Find ‘b’ in the alphabet slide.
♦ Set of phoneme practice slides - say the sound then say the picture.
♦ Lower and upper-case animated letter formation slides.
♦ Set of decodable, real word slides.
♦ Set of decodable, alien word slides.
♦ Three alliterative sentence slides.
♦ An interactive ‘Is it b…?’ quiz.
♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien?’ quiz.
Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.
The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint (PC) from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check.
The letter 'v' PowerPoint (Phase 3)
This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘v’ letter sound. It contains…
♦ Grapheme and picture slides.
♦ Find ‘v’ in the alphabet slide.
♦ Set of phoneme practice slides - say the sound then say the picture.
♦ Lower and upper-case animated letter formation slides.
♦ Set of decodable, real word slides.
♦ Set of decodable, alien word slides.
♦ Three alliterative sentence slides.
♦ An interactive ‘Is it v…?’ quiz.
♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien?’ quiz.
Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.
The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint (PC) from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check.
The CVC Phonics Games Pack (Set 2)
A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to consolidate the ability to read Consonant Vowel Consonant (CVC) words. This set focuses on the new sounds introduced in Phase 3 of the Letters and Sounds phonics programme (j, v, w, x, y, z).
Includes:
♦ Bingo (calling card + 32 game cards)
♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game)
♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game)
♦ Loop Cards (32 ‘I have… / Who has…’ cards)
♦ Jigsaw Puzzle (match the pictures with the words)
♦ Tarsia (join the triangles so that the words are alongside the correct pictures)
♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row)
♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win)
♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game)
♦ Planetary Pick-Up (2-player roll around the board collecting things/aliens)
♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game)
♦ Phonics Fuel-Up (2-player dice game)
♦ Large Dominoes (16 CVC pictures/words)
Most of the resources contain a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.