Topic planner to use with Mairi Hedderwick’s books about Katie Morag.

Simple book review for children to fill in, includes a box for drawing the front cover of the book.

A few games for improving listening and attention, remember to teach children how to listen well first!

A bright display poster to help children with reading skills. Goes well with my Word Attack Strategies Poster.

Double-sided bookmark to remind children of word attack strategies. Remember to print on both sides along the short edge.

Cute reindeer food labels with a poem of what it does!

Small booklets to encourage children to practise high frequency words. Children get stickers for each level they complete; Bronze- when they can read the word Silver- when they can write the word Gold- when they can use the word correctly in a sentence.

Active phonics ideas for remote learning. Could also be used for common and tricky words too.

A visual guide to all the aspects of phonological awareness, important to know before teaching phonics.

A useful guide for teaching phonics. Tells you all the different jargon you will hear.

Activities to improve children’s auditory discrimination which is one of the important aspects for increasing a child’s phonological awareness.

A bright display poster to remind children of word attack strategies when reading. Goes well with my Flip the Sound poster!

These activities will help improve children’s visual and auditory memory which is one of the aspects of phonological awareness.

An editable booklet suitable for homework or assessment in class which follows the NL Active Literacy stage 1 programme of initial sounds. An adult points to the sounds/words and the child has to tell them what the answer is. The learning can be extended using the pictures where the child says what the picture begins with.