Children love Alphablocks and they are an amazing program that really does help little ones understand phonics and helps them on their initial journey on how to read. I created all these resources to be used in my class when they start in reception. The idea behind this resource is to allow children to read the CVC word in the middle of the card. When they have done that, they choose one of the eight pictures around the outside and should put a peg on the correct picture. This shows understanding of what they have read but also helps with their fine motor skills, which in turn will help when they are ready to write. Reading is a ‘silent’ process for many children. When first learning they do not possess the ability to imagine what the written word is telling us. They have many, many other skills they have to master before they can get there. This resource is aimed at beginner readers and to try and put some fun into reading. They read it and then they have to match it to the correct picture out of the three available. With a picture to help young children visualise what they are reading, they have a purpose to reading it too and not just going through the motions.

A simple resource to laminate. They children can use a peg to match the word they have read to one of the eight pictures around the edge. I have purposely not used Capital letters for this resource. The reason for this is that it is designed for beginner readers who may not have the knowledge of Capital letters and what they look like. I want my children to access this resource independently during their enhanced learning time. It is made on publisher so you can change this if you wish too. Reading is a ‘silent’ process for many children. When first learning they do not possess the ability to imagine what the written word is telling us. They have many, many other skills they have to master before they can get there. This resource is aimed at beginner readers to try and put some fun into reading. With a picture to help young children visualise what they are reading, they have a purpose to reading it too and not just going through the motions. This resource is designed to be used independently, but can obviously be used as a teaching aid too.

When a child is learning to read it is important for them to blend each word individually. However, when children are doing this they can forget what they have read already. They have a lot to workout and remember so its only natural. A strategy we use is to ask the child to go back to the beginning of the sentence once they blend a word and read the sentence with fluency and therefore not blending. This is the only way they can remember what the sentence is. This resource is designed to see if they understand what they have read. A very simple sentence has three different pictures under it. They should read the sentence and then use a peg to indicate which picture matches the sentence. The peg idea is to aid their fine motor development and therefore help with handwriting.

Tricky words are hard to learn as they do not use phonic knowledge. So children just need to see them as many times as possible in order to learn them successfully and retain it all. These resources have been made as a classroom display but can be used anyway you want. I used a word art program to write in each tricky word and place them in the numbers. Phase 4 has 14 tricky words so they fill numbers 1-14.

A simple resource to laminate. The children can use a peg to match the word they have read to one of the eight pictures around the edge. Reading is a ‘silent’ process for many children. When first learning they do not possess the ability to imagine what the written word is telling us. They have many, many other skills they have to master before they can get there. This resource is aimed at beginner readers to try and put some fun into reading. With a picture to help young children visualise what they are reading, they have a purpose to reading it too and not just going through the motions. This resource is designed to be used independently, but can obviously be used as a teaching aid too.

Tricky words are hard to learn as they do not use phonic knowledge. So children just need to see them as many times as possible in order to learn them successfully and retain it all. These resources have been made as a classroom display but can be used anyway you want. I used a word art program to write in each tricky word and place them in the numbers. Phase 2 has 6 tricky words so they fill numbers 1-6.

Word families are a great way to help young children learn to read simple words. They help because they are similar sounds for each word. These boards include the following word families: at, am, en, ed, in, im, ot, og, un, ug Each different vowel set are colour coded to help distinguish between each family too. Each printed page includes two boards, with the word family ending on a separate part. Cut these out and laminate. Stick the word family ending on a peg and then this peg can be moved to the different parts of the boards to make words.

Reading is a ‘silent’ process for many children. When first learning they do not possess the ability to imagine what the written word is telling us. They have many, many other skills they have to master before they can get there. This resource is aimed at beginner readers to try and put some fun into reading and creating words. The picture cards are double should be double backed so they have a picture on one side that they can make a word to match it or they have the actual word they can copy. With a picture to help young children visualise what they are reading, they have a purpose to reading it too and not just going through the motions. This resource is designed to be used independently, but can obviously be used as a teaching aid too. There is something you will have to add to this resource - lots of bottle tops with graphemes on. This resource is for beginner readers so it will only need phase 2 sounds and a few at the start of phase 3 (for fox) on the bottle tops. Once that is done (and you will see from my picture that I tend to have the vowels as a different colour because this helps with middle sound work later on), the child can then flick the correct bottle tops/sounds into the goal to score and make the CVC words.

Children need a stimulus when writing. When a child is beginning to learn to write, it is even more important. To a child at the very early stages of reading or writing see letters and words as empty and lifeless. An competent reader can see words using their imagination and a sentence can create a thousand pictures in your mind. As educators we need to help children reach this level of enjoyment through the written word. To help children on the beginning of their journey, sentence starters are a great aid. Not only do they need help with creating sentences with sentence starters but they need help with the imagination to create pictures in their minds with these sentences. Each sentence starter has a picture to match with the sentence. I have not included capital letters with the sentence starters unless they are similar to the lower case version, because I intended on using them for very early writers and I wouldn’t have taught them how to form capital letters let alone read and understand words with them. If you laminate the resource, they can use over and over again.

I created all these resources to be used in my class when they start in reception. They range from initial sound activities to reading/making CVC words up to reading a simple phase 2 (Letters and sounds) sentence. Lots of these resources allow the child to match the sound or word to a picture. They have been created so the child uses a peg to show which picture is the answer. Using a peg to do this instead of just pointing to it also helps develop their fine motor skills, which in turn will help, when they are ready, to write. This bundle includes 7 resources made for my reception class to enhance their learning. The idea is that they could access these independently and show me their learning by use of pegs etc. It is priced at £5 so you get two resources for free if you opt to buy it this way.

When a child is learning to read it is important for them to blend each word individually. However, when children are doing this they can forget what they have read already. They have a lot to workout and remember so its only natural. A strategy we use is to ask the child to go back to the beginning of the sentence once they blend a word and read the sentence with fluency and therefore not blending. This is the only way they can remember what the sentence is. This resource is designed to see if they understand what they have read. A very simple sentence has three different pictures under it. They should read the sentence and then use a peg to indicate which picture matches the sentence. The peg idea is to aid their fine motor development and therefore help with handwriting.

It is important for young children to have reading material that they can use and read. This booklet is designed for young children to read independently. With this in mind I have not used Capital letters unless they look like the lower case version. The sentences used are very simple and repetitive, Starting with ‘She can …’ . With adult support this booklet can be used to talk about right from wrong. Each picture and sentence has a smiley face and a sad face so you can talk to your child about good decisions and bad ones. Is she bad? To use the resource, I printed it all out, then laminated it before making it into a booklet.

I created all these resources to be used in my class when they start in reception. The idea behind this resource is to help children understand what they are reading. A simple comprehension activity. There is a simple sentence that will match to one of the three pictures on the cards. The child should use a peg and match them. The peg will help their fine motor skills which in turn will help when they are ready to write. Please note that I have NOT included capital letters on these sentences, the idea behind this is that the children aimed at with these resources are only starting on their phonics journey and will probably not have the skills to recognise all the letters let alone capital letters.

I created all these resources to be used in my class when they start in reception. The idea behind this resource is to allow the child to make words that match the picture. You will need extra resources to go along side this printable - I have used bottle tops where I wrote on the letter sounds to match. To start with, the child can have the three letters to match the picture and try and put them in order. Once they are competent in hearing initial sounds, middle sounds and end sounds then I would just place the cards and bottle tops altogether and they have to fine the correct sounds to match the picture.

I created all these resources to be used in my class when they start in reception. The idea behind this resource is to help with hearing the initial sound of words. This is a very important initial skill for children to possess in order for them to work with full words. The initial sound is on the sheet and if the child is not sure what it reads then will need help. Then I would get them to name each picture before placing a peg on the picture that has the initial sound noted down.

I created all these resources to be used in my class when they start in reception. The idea behind this resource is to allow children to read the CVC word in the middle of the card. When they have done that, they choose one of the eight pictures around the outside and should put a peg on the correct picture. This shows understanding of what they have read but also helps with their fine motor skills, which in turn will help when they are ready to write.

Adapted from ‘Little Rabbit Foo Foo’ book, this story is about the Naughty little Joker scooping up boys and girls and bopping them on the head. They are saved by Batman as he flies down and eventually puts him in jail. I made a smart notebook presentation, using GIFs to help tell the story. My reception class have loved it so I thought I would share it. This started off my talk for writing topic this year. We talked about where they had heard the rhythm of the story before (Little Rabbit Foo Foo is a firm favourite of ours) and then how I had changed the story. We then learnt the story for them to retell to me at the end of the week.

This story has been adapted from the much loved ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ and I’ve used it to start out Talk for writing unit about superheros. I only used two baddies in the version as I teach in Early Years but we then used the idea to create their own version using different baddies they chose. We talked about how I changed it from the bear hunt and how they can change it with me modelling during the week and then them having a go on Friday. The story is made using GIFs and the text underneath. I found all my children were excited about the story and we had some lovely roleplaying all through the unit. All good when you want those sort of observations.

I created all these resources to be used in my class when they start in reception. The idea behind this resource is to allow the child to make the word that matches the picture and all the resources needed to do so are there to hand. The resource has all three letters to make the CVC word attached using a split pin and the child can move these around to make different combinations of the letters, hopefully they will be able to hear the initial sound, middle sound and end sound to the word and therefore be able to place them in the correct order.

Reading is a ‘silent’ process for many children. When first learning they do not possess the ability to imagine what the written word is telling us. They have many, many other skills they have to master before they can get there. This powerpoint is aimed at beginner readers and to try and put some fun into reading. They read it and then they have to match it to the correct picture. With a picture to help young children visualise what they are reading, they have a purpose to reading it too and not just going through the motions. This powerpoint is designed to be used independently, but can obviously be used as a teaching aid too. I made a lot of resources for traditional tales that can be printed off and laminated. Then the idea was for the children in my class to access these independently, either by using pegs to match the answers or other ways to work out the answer like using bottle tops with letters wrote on them. These resources are available in my shop. This resource is exactly the same as the one you can print off using pegs to indicate the correct word to match the picture, but it is for use on the interactive whiteboard. Again, children can access this independently as it does say when you have the wrong answer or it can be used to model the printed version. All they need to do is click on the correct bottle top to indicate which letter comes next in the CVC word. Each picture has three words and the child has to choose the correct one. The powerpoint indicates if they have the answer correct or not.