This is a game to support reading ‘ew’ sounds. as it is Chinese New Year and the Year of the Rat here is a game to play featuring ew

Laminate the aliens and place face up Laminate the Who am I cards Shuffle Place face down Read and match with the aliens with the description

some maths activities which link to phonics homework or class activities addition doubles weight money

hippty hop…phonics game to link science with phonics this game supports the two syllable words found in part 2 of the screen words such as window carpark picnic How to play Each player will need a baseboard (I use this with two players) if more than two players you may want to print more playing cards • Shuffle the playing cards • Place face down • Youngest player to start (or draw lots!) • Turnover and read the word • If correct place on the base board • If you get a complete cycle remove and keep. (safe cards) • If you turn over a predator card all card on board are forfeited! Winner is the player with the most cards Or Make up your own rules!

Time to link science with phonics! watch out for the predator coming to each you up! How to play Each player will need a baseboard (I use this with two players) if more than two players you may want to print more playing cards • Shuffle the playing cards • Place face down • Youngest player to start (or draw lots!) • Turnover and read the word • If correct place on the base board • If you get a complete cycle remove and keep. (safe cards) • If you turn over a predator card all card on board are forfeited! Winner is the player with the most cards Or Make up your own rules!

Can yo build a life cycle before a predator eats you are a part of the life cycle? A fun way to learn two syllable words and consonant blends spl, spr,scr,shr, str, thr, How to play Each player will need a baseboard (I use this with two players) if more than two players you may want to print more playing cards • Shuffle the playing cards • Place face down • Youngest player to start (or draw lots!) • Turnover and read the word • If correct place on the base board • If you get a complete cycle remove and keep. (safe cards) • If you turn over a predator card all card on board are forfeited! Winner is the player with the most cards Or Make up your own rules!

Game A bit of fun with ear… how many silly animals can you make? kids can make up own rules or place the ears (shuffled) in a pile face down and turn over and read… only animal ears work. turn over a human ear and all ears are returned to play or to shorten game out of play. Another way would be to wait until you have a matching pair to put onto you base card.

Spring time is heading our way and with it flowers!! So a simple game to play to support our phonics… with a hint of science to! name to flower parts!!! How to play Each player needs a counter. It can be a cube, stone, or the ladybird clipart Place the cards in a pile (shuffled) Aim of the game is to climb to the top of the sunflower. Only real words get you there! If you turn over and read a real word you get to move up one leaf. Place the real cards in the butterfly garden. However, if you turn over and read a nonsense word, that is for the compost heap and you do not move!

Do you want to build an ‘ow, oa ,oe, o-e’ man?! A table top game. Pepper the snowman heads in amongst the snow words. Turn the cards over shuffle and turn over one at a time. Read the ow family word- if you read it keep it! Build your snowman and when you get a head that is your snowman complete. Start a new snowman! Who will have the most, tallest or shortest snowman?! Stick arms to add in a pile once snowman is complete, or course you cold source some real twigs to add!

A resource which is made for my class to explore initial sounds through play dough, pens, whiteboards pens, trinkets to place of to create shape of grapheme. I will have laminated sheets for use with goggly eyes , play dough and small world trinkets plus paper versions for rainbow writing. i have also included numbers, each number has the correct number f objects for 1-1 counting correspondence

Print and laminate the spider. each spider covers phase 2 and 3 initial sounds satp inmd gock cke ur hblf jvwx yz qu attach the small pictures to wooden or plastic pegs and children clip on

To go with the digraph fortune tellers i have made a set using the initial sounds. the later sets have the red words to support reading no go I we be she he me. say the sound and then read the word under the flap! Cut out and fold for some phonics fun.

My first sound writing practise book Hot potato Phonics sound game phase 2 and phase 3 Handwriting sheets

Rocket word game Space action cards - phonics yoga actions to match the sound! initial and digraphs RWI sets 2 and 3 flash cards Rhyming words Space sound sorting Tic tac noughts and crosses HFW word game

A dice game to support initial sounds in Phase 2 and caption reading when ready. All you need is a dice and a sheet. I will laminate the sheets so i can reuse.. roll the dice and read the sound or caption. If the sound i will lbw encouraging the children to write as the say the sounds on whiet boards. To help with the captions i have added some clipart as a support.

covering the words used in Phase 2 a game to play with dice. A reading game to support segmenting and blending to use as a guided group/ intervention/ beginning reading journey or sending home to play. includes ck ff ll and ss words Covers the sods taught in Letters and Sounds phase 2

Banana Split game Give the dog a bone game Seagull attack all follow the same ideas . Collect as many cards you can before something pinches them! my class just love these games! Poor laminator is worn out!

Shuffle the cards Each player needs a baseboard (Dog and bowl) Place the bones face down Each player takes it in turn to turn over a bone Read the word, if it is read correctly player keeps the card. If not return to bottom of the pile. Watch out for HOT DOGS! If you turn this card you have to return all the bones in your bowl to the dog biscuit box. Play continues until all the bones are used. They winner is the player with the most bones!

Common exception word reading game Seagull attack! How to play Each player can have 1 or more cones to collect their ice cream scoops . Shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the table. Take it in turns to turn over. Find the sounds and read the word. If they read the word keep it. If not return to base of the pile. Build your ice cream but watch out for seagulls attack. If you turn this card over all your ice creams have to go back into the shop! The winner is the player with the most ice cream scoops

have some fun building a banana split. however, if you get a banana or a monster all your ice-cream cards go back into the ice cream tub!Split Digraph fun Banana Split Digraph How to play Each player needs an ice cream boat Shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the table. Take it in turns to turn over. Find the sounds and read the word. If they read the word keep it. If not return to base of the pile. Build your banana split but watch out for that banana skin ready to trip you up! If you turn this card over all your ice creams have to go back into the ice cream box (I am going to have an empty ice cream container or use the lid) The winner is the player with the most ice cream scoops in their banana split!