This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ai (long a) grapheme. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Vowel phoneme sound chart slide. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ Animated, decodable ‘syllable’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘ai’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘ai’ words. ♦ A ‘Which spelling is correct?’ interactive quiz. ♦ A ‘Real or Alien Word?’ interactive quiz. ♦ A ‘How many words can you make…?’ slide. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint 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.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the a-e split digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ Animated, decodable ‘syllable’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘a-e’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘a-e’ words. ♦ Add the ‘magic e’ slides. ♦ An interactive ‘Which spelling is correct?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien Word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file was created in PowerPoint 2003 so should be compatible with all newer versions. It is in .pps format.

A set of printable activity sheets to support children learning how to blend consonants. Great for consolidation, homeschooling and homework. This pack includes: ♦ 3 CCVC Sheets and a CCVC Test Sheet ♦ 2 CVCC Sheets and a CVCC Test Sheet ♦ A CCVCC Sheet and Test Sheet ♦ A set of Initial Blend Sheets: bl/br, cl/cr, dr/tr, fl/fr, gl/gr, pl/pr, sc/sl, sk/sm, sn/sp and squ/st/sw ♦ 3 Mixed Initial Blend Sheets ♦ 2 Cut & Stick Initial Blend Sheets ♦ A set of Final Blend Sheets: -mp, -nd, -nk, -nt, -sk and -st ♦ 2 Mixed Final Blend Sheets

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.

A selection of printable resources to support teaching and learning initial letter sounds and CVC (Consonant Vowel Consonant) words. Great for consolidation, homework or homeschooling. This pack includes: ♦ 25 letter sound sheets (every letter except c) ♦ 3 initial sound CVC sheets ♦ 3 middle sound CVC sheets ♦ 3 final sound CVC sheets ♦ 3 mixed sound CVC sheets ♦ 2 CVC picture spelling sheets ♦ 2 CVC picture spelling strip sheets ♦ CVC word test sheet ♦ Set of CVC picture and CVC word cards

This is a BIG book containing loads of printables to help children learn to read and spell words containing long vowel phonemes. It covers the following sounds: a-e (split digraph), ai, ay, other long a, ea, ee, ie, ey, -y (long e), i-e (split digraph), igh, -y (long i), o-e (split digraph), oa, ow (long o), ol, u-e (split digraph), oo (long u), ew, other long u New sounds added: e-e (split digraph), i (long e), ie (long i), i (long i), oe, o (long o), ue, ui, ou (long u) 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

A writing aid created to help children add more detail when describing what characters look like.