With a winter story theme this is a 4 day plan and activities for the Dinosaur that pooped Christmas. I have looked at the character of the dinosaur, compared it to the dinosaur that pooped a planet. There is a planning sheet and a mock book cover for a new story called the dinosaur that pooped winter. the children must plan and then write the story. There is a smaller book cover for the children to stick in their book when they write their own story.

A complete record of a childs recognition, reading and spelling of sounds family words, HFW and common exception words for ks1.

I used this with my Year 1 LA English set. The display pack has question mark and full stop cards that they held up to show if they thought it was a question or a statement. We talked through the questions and statements and ten used the worksheet to tick question or statement. then the children wrote their own questions for a pirate visitor.

Begin with what do children already know about pirates. Then 6 pictures to write sentences about and label a pirate leading to sentences. If I was a pirate as an independent write. Finally a writing a wanted poster. Picture to be stuck in books and children to draw their pirate and then complete the writing.

Large pirates lettering for above the board and the title ‘Do you like argh writing?’ There are captions and a frame for either creating acptions or as a frame for writing to display.

The children will have 2 sheets of words to sort by putting them under the correct sound label. They can be used at a table or stuck on the wall as a display.

There are large labels for each sound and then 2 sheets of words. I have used this as an activity to sort the words by which ur/er/ir sound they contain. The children then stuck the words to the wall.

For every sound that I teach I put the book pictures in their phonics book to use for spellings and sentences. Then I use the reading activity to assess if they can use that sound to read. They read real and fake words to try and find the correct word.

This is a booklet that I am sending home for my phonics group. They cover all the sounds that we have worked on so far. It will be a holiday challenge to review the sounds before the phonics screening.

Have have used this for the parents that attend my phonics class every week. Publisher document.

Phase 3 sounds with a picture and 3 choices of the correct word. Children must blend each word and tick the correct word. Encourages children to think about all sounds. Used as evidence of reading in books. This is a PUBLISHER document.

I have used these sheets to assess children's reading of sounds that they have been working on. It is also useful as evidence of reading in my children's phonics books. Covers phase 3 and 2 sheets of phase 4 words. Children to then read the word and match to the pictures. THIS IS A PUBLISHER FILE. This is in the Nelson handwriting font.

I used this to remind the children that it is important to think about all of the sounds they can hear. They enjoyed sorting the pictures and then finding the missing sounds. The missing sounds are a mixture of cvc words and the beginning of phase 3. THESE FILES ARE PUBLISHER DOCUMENTS!

The Phonics Olympic pack was used for children to practice for their Phonics Olympics at school. It was used on the run up to the phonics screening. I used this for year 2 pupils that are to retake the test but it would be suitable for year 1. The certificate was given to each child who took part. With the help of some little trophies from the pound shop this created lots of enthusiasm which was the aim! Word document for preview only. Publisher document is much better.

Name Stitch's body parts. I am using this with my EAL pupils.

The words are the same as in the Phonics Olympics booklet, To be using during or to practice for the reading event.

Recently used these in year 2 but could be suitable for other year groups.

A set of 4 tables for grapheme and spelling assessments. On publisher word document for example purposes only.