A workbook based on ‘The Gruffalo’ for KS1, Kindergarten, Grade 1. Includes 10 pages of activities for children to practise and consolidate their spelling, grammar and punctuation work. This booklet could be used by the children independently after the objectives and been taught and used as an assessment tool or simply as an independent work book. Useful for guided reading or even as a homework pack. The booklet has a “Word work” section, covering areas such as nouns, adjective, verbs and noun phrases. The “Sentence work” section covers areas such as finger spaces, capital letters and full stops. Includes a Gruffalo word search.

The teaching materials in this booklet suggest an order for teaching letters and provide a selection of activities to support learning and practising reading and writing with the sounds learned. Feel free to pick and choose the suitable activities for your child, they may need to do more activities for some of the letters than others, pick the pace that suits their needs! It must always be remembered that phonics is the step up to word recognition. Automatic reading of all words – decodable and tricky – is the ultimate goal. This pack includes: -eye-catching posters to use for teaching each Phase 3 sound, with a picture to help children remember the sound and a caption to remind them of how to form the letter -‘Things beginning with’ worksheet to practise recognising the onset sound -‘Write the initial letter sound’ worksheet to revise sounds learned so far and practise writing the letters -‘Reading Comprehension’ sheet to allow children to practise reading a short passage featuring words with the new sound and answer some questions about it -‘Draw pictures to match the letter sound’ worksheet, to practise recognising words with that sound -‘Rainbow letters’ to revise handwriting for sounds learned so far