A phonics activity where children have 8 words containing ‘ET’ to find: Jet, helmet, net, pet, wet, vet, wallet and racket. Picture symbols will support children with their spellings and reading. There is an answer sheet included. There are 2 worksheets: Children read and answer simple questions to find the correct ‘ET’ words and write their answers. Children label the 8 picture symbols of words with ‘ET’. Boardmaker licenced.

A phonics activity where children have 8 words containing ‘IG’ to find: Iguana, twig, giggle, zigzag, big, jigsaw, dig and pig. Picture symbols will support children with their spellings and reading. There is an answer sheet included. There are 2 worksheets: Children read and answer simple questions to find the correct ‘IG’ words and write their answers. Children label the 8 picture symbols of words with ‘IG’. Boardmaker licenced.

A phonics activity where children have 8 words containing ‘IN’ to find: Dinner, winter, spin, winner, grin, bin, tin and finish. Picture symbols will support children with their spellings and reading. There is an answer sheet included. There are 2 worksheets: Children read and answer simple questions to find the correct ‘IN’ words and write their answers. Children label the 8 picture symbols of words with ‘IN’. Boardmaker licenced.

A phonics activity where children have 8 words containing ‘AN’ to find: Van, animal, fan, nan, man, can, banana and ran. Picture symbols will support children with their spellings and reading. There is an answer sheet included. There are 2 worksheets: Children read and answer simple questions to find the correct ‘AN’ words and write their answers. Children label the 8 picture symbols of words with ‘AN’. Boardmaker licenced.

A phonics activity where children have 8 words containing ‘AT’ to find: Rat, cat, sat, mat, hat, chat,bat, pat. Picture symbols will support children with their spellings and reading. There is an answer sheet included. There are 2 worksheets: Children read and answer simple questions to find the correct ‘AT’ words and write their answers. Children label the 8 picture symbols of words with ‘AT’. Boardmaker licenced.

A phonics activity where children have 8 words containing ‘EN’ to find: Pen, ten, hen, den, men, oven, women and engine. Picture symbols will support children with their spellings and reading. There is an answer sheet included. There are 2 worksheets: Children read and answer simple questions to find the correct ‘EN’ words and write their answers. Children label the 8 picture symbols of words with ‘EN’. Boardmaker licenced.

This resource is designed for KS1 children to explore and learn about Diwali, the joyous Festival of Lights. It includes a word search activity, featuring 12 Diwali-related words such as ‘lantern’, ‘rangoli’, ‘prayers’, ‘festival’, and ‘lamp’. There is an answer sheet included. This activity not only helps in developing vocabulary related to this cultural festival but also enhances spelling and word recognition skills. Accompanying the word search is a creative template where children can craft their own word search puzzles. This encourages them to use Diwali-inspired vocabulary and develop their literacy skills in a fun and interactive way, while deepening their understanding of the festival’s customs and traditions.

A phonics resource for children learning about ‘ck’ at the end of words. There are 2 worksheets where children use the words provided to label the pictures. There is a sheet with 16 sentences where children add the missing words that end in ck. (S may be added for plurals). They can write these out in their workbooks or just add the missing words onto the sheet. There is a wordsearch and wordsearch answer sheet provided.

A poster showing 30 things beginning with the letter A. Children can write out the words on a list. There are also word cards that can be cut out and pasted to make the list. Play a game where children can time each other to see who can find all the pictures first. Another idea is to choose 5 pictures to write a sentence about or to make into a story.

Here is an example of an acrostic Christmas poem to give your class the idea. I use a wordbank of Christmas words or pictures to inspire my children. There are 4 examples of writing frames so children can choose their favourites.

Here is an example of an Easter Acrostic poem together with 8 different templates for children to choose from in order to write their own. Links with Spring, Poetry and Celebrations.

A poster showing 30 things beginning with the letter S. Children can write out the words on a list. There are also word cards that can be cut out and pasted to make the list. Play a game where children can time each other to see who can find all the pictures first. Another idea is to choose 5 pictures to write a sentence about or to make into a story.

A poster showing 30 things beginning with the letter N. Children can write out the words on a list. There are also word cards that can be cut out and pasted to make the list. Play a game where children can time each other to see who can find all the pictures first. Another idea is to choose 5 pictures to write a sentence about or to make into a story. Order the words into alphabetical order.

A poster showing 30 things beginning with the letter I. Children can write out the words on a list. There are also word cards that can be cut out and pasted to make the list. Play a game where children can time each other to see who can find all the pictures first. Another idea is to choose 5 pictures to write a sentence about or to make into a story. Order the words into alphabetical order.

Here is a resource designed to support children with writing key words, sentences or acrostic poems linked to Easter time. Sheet 1 gives a list of key words related to Easter and the letters of EASTER in acrostic form. Children can write a key word for each letter or complete a poem. Sheet 2 shows the key words and space for children to draw or write about Easter. Sheet 3 shows an example of an Acrostic poem about Easter to share with your class.

3 sets of CVC worksheets. Each set is made up of: 12 CVC word cards Word cards with pictures Picture cards with space to write CVC words Children can learn to read, spell, sound out and match. Pictures are black and white so children can colour these too. Links to Letters and Sounds, Phonics and Spelling.

A poster showing 30 things beginning with the letter L. Children can write out the words on a list. There are also word cards that can be cut out and pasted to make the list. Play a game where children can time each other to see who can find all the pictures first. Another idea is to choose 5 pictures to write a sentence about or to make into a story. Order the words into alphabetical order.

A poster showing 30 things beginning with the letter F. Children can write out the words on a list. There are also word cards that can be cut out and pasted to make the list. Play a game where children can time each other to see who can find all the pictures first. Another idea is to choose 5 pictures to write a sentence about or to make into a story. Order the words into alphabetical order.

Introducing List Poetry which need not rhyme or have the same metre. The picture borders will help children when deciding what to include in their list poems. Encourage the children to come up with a starter sentence to improve their lists such as - I love sports, any sport will do… Celebrate World Poetry Day and have fun with these List Poetry ideas. There are 5 templates each with a different theme: Transport Shoes Hats Fruit Sports Children can make notes either in the borders or on the lined grid. Similarly, they could make their list poem in the border or on the lined grid.

A poster showing 30 things beginning with the letter P. Children can write out the words on a list. There are also word cards that can be cut out and pasted to make the list. Play a game where children can time each other to see who can find all the pictures first. Another idea is to choose 5 pictures to write a sentence about or to make into a story. Order the words into alphabetical order.