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Literacy for early years
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Letters and Sounds phonic resources: Phase 2 letters display and activities
A range of resources to print for reinforcing sets 1-5 letters.
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Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources for oral segmentation
4 activities to give children oral practice of segmenting phonemes. There is a powerpoint and an accompanying printable sheet for each activity.
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EYFS Animals topic: Number rhymes pack
A set of number rhyme resources to use during an Animal topic in the Early Years. It includes display headings, rhymes, props etc.
The rhymes are:
5 Baby turtles
5 Little birds
5 Little monkeys bouncing
5 Little monkeys swinging
5 Little spiders
8 Enormous dinosaurs
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Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources: Segmenting for spelling resources
4 interactive powerpoints that can be used for spelling activities.
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Alphabet activities - powerpoints, display and activity pack
This set is useful to reinforce upper case letters. The alphabet song powerpoint does not contain music, but can be used to sing along to.
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Alphabet bingo - initial sounds game
This set contains 20 picture bingo cards and 20 letter bingo cards to play in large or small groups.
Each card prints onto an A4 page (although you can alter the printer settings to print smaller versions if required.)
The small calling cards (pictures and letters) can be used to cover up or match the picture or letter sounds.
The larger calling cards (pictures and letters) can be held up for the children to look at.
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Daily routine flash cards for visual sequencing, SEND, EYFS
The cards can be used to help children plan the day, get ready for what is happening next and to communicate with others.
There are 72 cards included; 9 to each A4 sheet.
Updated version added February 2023*
If there are any other activities / extra cards you would like adding to the pack, please send a message and I can add them.
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Letters and Sounds Phase 5 word / help mats
The picture grapheme/word mat is to aid in the teaching and learning of further graphemes, and learning to read tricky words in phase 5. A pictorial example of each sound is shown with the letters to help children remember the graphemes. Also on the word mat are previous tricky words, which can be decoded in Phase 5, and the 11 tricky words for children to read in Phase 5.
The second word mat contains the alternate spellings for phonemes on page 144 of the Letters and Sounds document.
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Letters and Sounds Phase 3 word / help mats
The picture grapheme and word mat:
This word mat is to aid in the teaching and learning of sounds and tricky words in phase 3. Each letter is accompanied by a relevant picture, to give children visual cues to help them learn each grapheme. Each group is represented in a different colour, so that it is easy to focus on the letter sounds being learnt. Also on the word mat are the 12 tricky words from phase 3 for the children to learn.
Grapheme and word mat:
The second word mat is similar to the first, but with the visual cues removed, to help those children who know which letters represent which sounds, but still need prompts to recognise the written letters.
Phase 3 word mat - contains visual cues for Jolly Phonics.
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Alphabet / Letters, digraphs and trigraphs A5 flashcards / display - 72 graphemes
This set contains all the letters of the alphabet, consonant digraphs and vowel digraphs and trigraphs in the Y1 spelling appendix.
The cards are in pdf format for you to print out as many times as you like. They can be used as flashcards, for display or for group or individual use.
There are 2 cards per A5 page. Each card contains pictures and a list of words, including the relevant common exception words for Y1. The single letter sounds contain the matching keyboard letter so they can help children on the keyboard.
There are 3 separate files:
PHONIC CARDS 1
26 letters of the alphabet plus ch sh th and wh
PHONICS CARDS 2
All the graphemes identified in the Y1 spelling appendix
PHONICS CARDS 3
Extra graphemes from the Letters and Sounds document ( ff ll ss zz ck ey ng and ure)
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Rapunzel Fairy Tale activity pack - Powerpoint story, display resources and activities
A story of Rapunzel, plus writing sheets, wanted poster, sequencing pictures, book cover; display border and heading.
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Hansel and Gretel Fairy tale activity pack- powerpoint story, display and activities
A story in powerpoint, sequencing cards, heading, lettering, retelling pages, story sequencing and characters for role play.
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Phase 1 Aspect 3 Body percussion: Letters and Sounds Phonics resource pack
A mixture of powerpoints and printable activities to encourage sound discrimination by listening to sounds in the environment.
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Phase 1 Aspect 7 Oral blending and segmenting: Letters and Sounds Phonics resource pack
A set of powerpoints, games, cards and activities to develop oral blending and segmenting of sounds in words.
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Letters and Sounds Phase 2 word / help mats
There are 3 versions of the mat:
One with pictures, tricky words and straight k and f
One with pictures, tricky words and curly k and f
One with no pictures
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Phase 1 Aspect 6 Voice sounds: Letters and Sounds Phonics resource pack
A pack of powerpoints and activities to print to help children distinguish between the differences in vocal sounds, including oral blending and segmenting.
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Phase 1 Aspect 2 Instrumental Sounds: Letters and Sounds Phonics resource pack
A mixture of powerpoints and printable activities to encourage sound discrimination by listening to instrumental sounds.
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Jack and the Beanstalk Fairy Tale activity pack - powerpoint story, display and activities
A powerpoint story plus the following resources to print:
A Beanstalk to print out (you can make it as tall as you wish)
Leaves and beans to add to the beanstalk
Black and white leaves to colour / paint
Number leaves - 0-20
Jack and the Beanstalk character masks - in colour and black and white
Jack and the Beanstalk - large lettering
Jack and the Beanstalk - heading on A4
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Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources: Blending for reading & sound buttons
There are 3 different sets of powerpoint resources:
The first set displays the picture, then each letter in the word appears (without sound buttons)
The second set displays the picture, then each letter in the word appears (with sound buttons)
The third set shows just the word which is underlined with sound buttons.
Each file is organised into words the children will know when they have encountered individual sets of Phase 2 letters.
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Phonics flashcards
A set of 76 phonics display/flashcards to use in KS1.
There are 2 A5 cards on a page. Each card contains pictures and a list of words including the relevant common exception words for Year 1.
The first set contains the letters of the alphabet.
The second set contains the consonant digraphs and vowel digraphs and trigraphs in the Y1 Spelling appendix.
The third set contains extra graphemes identified in the Letters and Sounds phonics programme.