A selection of dragon stories for developing comprehension skills suitable for readers from Year 1 upwards. Children should be reading at or above orange level book band to access these texts. Each story is accompanied by a sheet of comprehension questions to develop your students understanding of the text. These stories can be used for reading fluency/ words per minute assessments. Included in this pack: Reading fluency rubric for teachers Reading assessment sheet Reading fluency exercise table for students with ideas and suggestions on what they can do to improve their reading fluency, pacing, expression, and pauses at punctuations. A sheet for illustrating the story after reading. These stories can be used for guided reading sessions, tutoring sessions, independent work, and book clubs with a focus on developing reading speed, fluency accuracy and use of expressions. 21 different and original stories: The dragon and the star - 169 words The dragon’s treasure - 177 words The dragon’s song - 153 words The dragon’s secret - 147 words The dragon and the moon - 150 words The friendly dragon - 153 words The lost dragon egg - 162 words The dragon and the princess - 165 words The dragon’s flight - 154 words The dragon’s gift - 156 words The brave little dragon - 141 words The dragon feast - 140 words The magic feather - 133 words The dragon who loved flowers - 277 words The dragon and the storm - 152 words The dragon’s garden - 136 words The dragon and the moonlight - 142 words The dragon and the bear - 243 words The lonely dragon - 219 words The dragon and the lost star - 177 words The dragons’ flight - 186 words

Are your students stuck on blending? Do they need more sound blending practice? Look no further! This resource will help your children to consolidate their blending and segmenting skills. Print these sheets out onto white card, print on both sides. Cut along the dotted line. Staple the sheets together to make a book. There are helpful tips for parents, a sound blending game to play with their children and a set of cut and paste sheets for children to use to build the words that are in the books. These activities can be used in class, for homework, for tutoring or small group work. These are the next books in the series. I will add more books as I make them. Check back in to my shop to find the others. Sound Blending Book 4 Words in the book: can, kit, kid, cap, ten, men, pen, pet, net, peg. Sound Blending Book 5 Words in the book: hat, hot, den, ted, hop, hip, ham, hen, hut, hit. This upload contains this book: Sound Blending Book 6 Words in the book: ram, fan, rat, fog, rip, red, fin, bat, fly, bib.

Are your students stuck on blending? Do they need more sound blending practice? Look no further! This resource will help your children to consolidate their blending and segmenting skills. Print these sheets out onto white card, print on both sides. Cut along the dotted line. Staple the sheets together to make a book. There are helpful tips for parents, a sound blending game to play with their children and a set of cut and paste sheets for children to use to build the words that are in the books. These activities can be used in class, for homework, for tutoring or small group work. These are the next books in the series. I will add more books as I make them. Check back in to my shop to find the others. Sound Blending Book 4 Words in the book: can, kit, kid, cap, ten, men, pen, pet, net, peg. This upload contains this book: Sound Blending Book 5 Words in the book: hat, hot, den, ted, hop, hip, ham, hen, hut, hit. Sound Blending Book 6 Words in the book: ram, fan, rat, fog, rip, red, fin, bat, fly, bib.

Are your students stuck on blending? Do they need more sound blending practice? Look no further! This resource will help your children to consolidate their blending and segmenting skills. Print these sheets out onto white card, print on both sides. Cut along the dotted line. Staple the sheets together to make a book. There are helpful tips for parents, a sound blending game to play with their children and a set of cut and paste sheets for children to use to build the words that are in the books. These activities can be used in class, for homework, for tutoring or small group work. These are the next books in the series. I will add more books as I make them. Check back in to my shop to find the others. Sound Blending Book 4 Words in the book: can, kit, kid, cap, ten, men, pen, pet, net, peg. Sound Blending Book 5 Words in the book: hat, hot, den, ted, hop, hip, ham, hen, hut, hit. Sound Blending Book 6 Words in the book: ram, fan, rat, fog, rip, red, fin, bat, fly, bib.

Are your students stuck on blending? Do they need more sound blending practice? Look no further! This resource will help your children to consolidate their blending and segmenting skills. Print these sheets out onto white card, print on both sides. Cut along the dotted line. Staple the sheets together to make a book. There are helpful tips for parents, a sound blending game to play with their children and a set of cut and paste sheets for children to use to build the words that are in the books. These activities can be used in class, for homework, for tutoring or small group work. These are the first in the series. I will add more books as I make them. Check back in to my shop to find the others. Sound Blending Book 1 Words in the book: pat, ant, sip, sat, pin, nip, sit, tap, tip, nap. Sound Blending Book 2 Words in the book:map, dad, man, sad, pan, pip, pit, mad, dip, pig. This upload contains this book: Sound Blending Book 3 Words in the book: top, gas, tag, dot, dig, dog, pop, mop, pot, gap.

Are your students stuck on blending? Do they need more sound blending practice? Look no further! This resource will help your children to consolidate their blending and segmenting skills. Print these sheets out onto white card, print on both sides. Cut along the dotted line. Staple the sheets together to make a book. There are helpful tips for parents, a sound blending game to play with their children and a set of cut and paste sheets for children to use to build the words that are in the books. These activities can be used in class, for homework, for tutoring or small group work. These are the first in the series. I will add more books as I make them. Check back in to my shop to find the others. Sound Blending Book 1 Words in the book: pat, ant, sip, sat, pin, nip, sit, tap, tip, nap. This upload contains this book: Sound Blending Book 2 Words in the book:map, dad, man, sad, pan, pip, pit, mad, dip, pig. Sound Blending Book 3 Words in the book: top, gas, tag, dot, dig, dog, pop, mop, pot, gap.

Are your students stuck on blending? Do they need more sound blending practice? Look no further! This resource will help your children to consolidate their blending and segmenting skills. Print these sheets out onto white card, print on both sides. Cut along the dotted line. Staple the sheets together to make a book. There are helpful tips for parents, a sound blending game to play with their children and a set of cut and paste sheets for children to use to build the words that are in the books. These activities can be used in class, for homework, for tutoring or small group work. These are the first in the series. I will add more books as I make them. Check back in to my shop to find the others. This upload contains this book: Sound Blending Book 1 Words in the book: pat, ant, sip, sat, pin, nip, sit, tap, tip, nap. Sound Blending Book 2 Words in the book:map, dad, man, sad, pan, pip, pit, mad, dip, pig. Sound Blending Book 3 Words in the book: top, gas, tag, dot, dig, dog, pop, mop, pot, gap.

A handy set of handwriting sheets featuring homophones. Use these Homophone handwriting sheets to practise writing and spelling common homophones. Perfect for helping children reinforce their knowledge of homophones, spelling and handwriting. The homophones in this pack include: aloud/allowed, ate/eight, bear/bare, blue/blew, board/bored, buy/bye, dear/deer, flower/flour, grate/great, hair/hare, hear/here, heard/herd, heel/heal, larva, lava, male/mail, knight/night, sow/sew, one/won, paws/pause, pair/pear, reads/reeds, sale/sail, tail/tale, witch/which, you/ewe, son/sun, sea/see, waist/waste. Each sheet has a space for writing the words in cursive handwriting, a fill in the missing letters activity, a word pyramid and a space for writing the word in a sentence. There are 56 sheets included in this resource.

This resource can be used for home learning, tutoring or online learning and to review phonics from any scheme/program, although it does follow the order of RWI Set 2 sounds. There are 45 pages with different activities to review the sounds air, ir, ou oy. Activities include Can you find it? - Find the target phoneme among other phonemes. Speed read sounds - review of a selection of sounds which include set 1 and 2 sounds. Circle and colour - a colouring activity with a target phoneme. Read and match words and pictures Read and draw a picture Speed read words - can be timed as the child reads the words as fast as they can. Read alien/nonsense words. Write the words using phoneme frames. Letter formation sheets - practicing the phoneme and words. Sensory ideas for letter formation. Write a sentence - with a given sentence to dictate.

This resource can be used for home learning, tutoring or online learning and to review phonics from any scheme/program, although it does follow the order of RWI Set 2 sounds. There are 45 pages with different activities to review the sounds ay, ee, igh,ow. Activities include Can you find it? - Find the target phoneme among other phonemes. Speed read sounds - review of a selection of sounds which include set 1 and 2 sounds. Circle and colour - a colouring activity with a target phoneme. Read and match words and pictures Read and draw a picture Speed read words - can be timed as the child reads the words as fast as they can. Read alien/nonsense words. Write the words using phoneme frames. Letter formation sheets - practicing the phoneme and words. Sensory ideas for letter formation. Write a sentence - with a given sentence to dictate. Tes paid licence

This resource can be used for home learning and to review phonics from any scheme/program, although it does follow the order of RWI Set 2 sounds. There are 40 pages with different activities to review the sounds oo, oo, ar, or. Activities include Can you find it? - Find the target phoneme among other phonemes. Speed read sounds - review of a selection of sounds which include set 1 and 2 sounds. Circle and colour - a colouring activity with a target phoneme. Read and match words and pictures Read and draw a picture Speed read words - can be timed as the child reads the words as fast as they can. Read alien/nonsense words. Write the words using phoneme frames. Letter formation sheets. Sensory ideas for letter formation. Write a sentence - with a given sentence to dictate.

A great introduction to letter sounds and letters a-z. There are pictures to colour in that start with the letter sound, a space to draw a picture and a space to begin practicing letter formation.

A great way to reinforce the letter sounds as they are learned. These sheets can be used in an independent group learning activity, as a review, or they can be used as homework sheets to reinforce the sounds at home. There are 36 phonemes a-z, ll, ss, ff, zz, ng, nk, sh, ch, th (soft), ck. It can be used to compliment any well known Phonics programmes. These sheets should be printed as a double sided A4 worksheet, they can be folded into a pamplet/trifold worksheet. There are different activities to reinforce letter sounds. Draw it - draw a picture of an item that has the focus sound. Find it - find the focus sound and draw a circle around it. Colour it - 2 pictures to colour in and write the focus sound as the initial sound or within a word. Write it - Practice letter formation. Sort it - involves cutting, sorting and pasting pictures from the focus sound into a grid, there are also 2 pictures that are not from the focus group, to be pasted into another grid which reinforces reviewing past sounds.

Roll Say Keep Roll Say Keep is a great game to help your students learn tricky/high frequency words. Rules for the Game Number of Players: 2 to 6 Items needed: Roll ~ Say ~ Keep game board, word cards for the list being studied, die. Object of the game: To read the most words from the board Directions: Use sight word cards for the list being studied and 1 game mat. Place a card, face up, in each space. Leave the remaining cards in a pile. Players take turns rolling the die and reading the cards in the appropriate space. If the player can read the card, he keeps it and replaces the card with another from the pile. Placing the cards face up gives the students more exposure to the words that need to be learned. Included in this pack are: 6 game boards in different colours. I have included several different word lists so that this game can be accessible to different reading/phonics schemes. Word lists: Year 1 Common Exception words. Year 2 Common Exception words. First 100 High Frequency Words. RWI Red Words Set 1-4 Let me know if there are other lists you would like me to add.

A great resource for helping students to learn the correct letter formation using RWI pictures for each letter of the alphabet. These sheets are great for practicing letter formation. They can be used as homework or in the classroom to help your students form letters correctly.

This resource contains an explanation sheet for explaining how to use apostrophes for possession and for contractions. Using easy to understand language to describe the function of the apostrophe, makes this resource accessible to learners from aged 5 upwards. This resource can be used by English language learners, tutors, class teacher, home schoolers to introduce the function and use of apostrophes. There 14 sheets to work on using apostrophes: Apostrophes for possession Sort the contractions Sort words – plurals/possessive apostrophes Match the contractions Expand the contractions Add contractions into sentences Using contractions to write your own sentences

This beautiful and eye pleasing powerpoint is for students who are in the early stages of reading and are just beginning to blend. You can use it to support your students early blending and segmenting skills. All the words have the medial vowel a. The cvc words included are cat, tap, hat, fan, rat, sad, pan, bag, ham, ram, can, tag, dad, mad, jam, ran, van, cap, gap, lap, map, pat, sat, bat, mat, man. This powerpoint includes (number of slides) 26 word slides, a cover slide and an end slide with stars and a praise statement. This powerpoint can be used for whole class, group learning, home schooling or tutoring. Children will love the illustrations and the words are in a large font size to make it easier to see.

This resource is perfect for any child sitting the phonics screening test. A great way to learn alien words by playing the old classic Guess Who game with a alien twist! Easy to copy and laminate. Copy and laminate 2 sets of the playing cards and you can also use the cards to play a matching pairs game.