A pack of display items for a study of the butterfly life-cycle. Includes: Butterfly life-cycle word mat/poster A long banner ( 11 A4 pages)which can be either pinned or strung on a string 1 A4 page with title ‘Butterflies’ Butterfly life-cycle flow chart: 1 A4 page each for eggs, caterpillars, chrysalis, butterfly and an arrow to print 4 times 4 initial sounds cards for stages in lifecycle: e/egg; c/caterpillar;c/chrysalis;b/buttefly 4 words and pictures cards for stages in the life-cycle 4 picture cards of stages of the life-cycle with matching word cards: can be used to make games, or for display. 5 strip vocabulary words with pictures 6 Photos Find lesson notes and worksheets/activities for an amazing lesson/s on the butterfly life-cycle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12679170

A fun, animated PowerPoint to introduce children to the consonant blends SL featuring the lovable character, SLIMMY SLUG! As you tell the story, which is written under each slide for use in Presentation Mode or on the accompanying PDF, stretch out the key words containing the focus blend: SLLLimmy SLLLug to help children hear the blend. At the end of the story, 2 slides help you to teach the children to blend the two sounds together to make the blend SL and then further slides encourage the children to help you to retell the story as you highlight the key words containing each blend. The PowerPoint ends with an interactive puzzle: can the children tell you which things begin with the blend SL? Watch the pictures spin if correct and disappear if incorrect! An SL worksheet is included for follow up. Close your lesson with a plenary session, reviewing the key words containing the FL blend. Written to help a disallusioned 8-yr-old who had already failed to read despite 2 phonic programmes, I needed a way to get his attention. It worked and he loved these simple PowerPoint presentations and was soon reading and spelling words with consonant blends. Suitable for distance/on-line learning, in school, at home and for home education. Find also: FR PowerPoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12907479 FL PowerPoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12907482 See also our consonant blends, leveled, FREE reading books! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12645240

A fun, animated PowerPoint to introduce children to the consonant blends FL featuring the lovable character, FLAPPY FLY! As you tell the story, which is written under each slide for use in Presentation Mode or on the accompanying PDF, stretch out the key words containing the focus blend: FLLLappy FLLLy to help children hear the blend. At the end of the story, 2 slides help you to teach the children to blend the two sounds together to make the blend FL and then further slides encourage the children to help you to retell the story as you highlight the key words containing each blend. The PowerPoint ends with an interactive puzzle: can the children tell you which things begin with the blend FL? Watch the pictures spin if correct and disappear if incorrect! An FL worksheet is included for follow up. Close your lesson with a plenary session, reviewing the key words containing the FL blend. Written to help a disallusioned 8-yr-old who had already failed to read despite 2 phonic programmes, I needed a way to get his attention. It worked and he loved these simple PowerPoint presentations and was soon reading and spelling words with consonant blends. Suitable for distance/on-line learning, in school, at home and for home education. Find also: FR PowerPoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12907479 SL PowerPoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12907484 See our consonant blends, leveled, FREE reading books! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12645240

Here are 10 fun, editable, animated reading fluency/practice slides to help your children to practice reading letter sounds and words - be that decodable words, or common sight words. Can also be used for number recognition. Better than flashcards! These are flashcards come to life! Make repeated practice fun and take the pain out of learning. Even the hard-to-motivate pupils love the animations and instant feedback so that they can feel successful. Simply edit the text on each slide, adding the things the child/ren need/s to practice and go into presentation mode to see the animations come to life as the child reads each word on the pictures. It is advised that you keep a copy of the PowerPoint for ease of rectification should you make a mistake while editing, and delete an animation. Do a test run before every lesson to make sure you know where to click and that all is working as expected. Who for: Young children learning letter sounds/numbers/CVC words/digraph words SEN children who need motivating to learn Intervention work where children need repeated exposure to same things ESL/ EFL pupils For use by: Home-educators Teaching in class Teaching online Private tutors What is included? 10 editable PowerPoint slides See fishes swim, ships sail, boats move, help the farmer collect the hay bales, see the trains move along the track, help the ducks swim on the pond, take rockets to space, go up in a hot air balloon, and reach for the moon! TRIED and TESTED on real children and they love them!

A fun, animated PowerPoint to introduce children to the consonant blends FR featuring the lovable character, Freddy Frog! As you tell the story, which is written under each slide for use in Presentation Mode or on the accompanying PDF, stretch out the key words containing the focus blend: FRRReddy FRRRog to help children hear the blend. At the end of the story, 2 slides help you to teach the children to blend the two sounds together to make the blend and then further slides encourage the children to help you to retell the story as you highlight the key words containing each blend. The PowerPoint ends with an interactive puzzle: can the children tell you which things begin with the blend FR? Watch the pictures spin if correct and disappear if incorrect! An FR worksheet is included for follow up. Close your lesson with a plenary session, reviewing the key words containing the FR blend. Suitabel for all pupils, but written to help a disallusioned 8-yr-old who had already failed to read despite 2 phonic programmes, I needed a way to get his attention. It worked and he loved these simple PowerPoint presentations and was soon reading and spelling words with consonant blends. Suitable for distance/on-line learning, in school, at home and for home education. Find also: SL PowerPoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12907484 FL PowerPoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12907482 See our consonant blends, leveled, FREE reading books! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12645240

A bumper pack of teaching resources with everything you need to teach initial sounds. For use in class, for private tuition and for home education, ESL/EFL/ Special need. This Initial Sounds Teaching Pack contains (all a-z with vowels in yellow): Alphabet chart for display/for a child to practice the sounds/check and see progress Cards with both pictures and initial sounds, Cards with just a sound with room for the matching picture to be inserted above Two sets of matching pictures cards A set of lower-case letters A set of upper-case letters Vowel strips with and without pictures: these should be said daily, once learned, as the child moves on to learn to blend. Over 170 cards altogether! Simply print, cut and laminate for durability. Suggestions for use are provided, but you are only limited by your imagination!

Here is a simple ‘ar’ phonic game which I made to help my struggling readers. It is easy, fun and if nothing else, your pupil will forget his/her difficulty with reading while playing this game with either an adult or another child. Full instructions are given. Two editions are provided: black and white or coloured. Why not let the pupil make his/her own game by colouring the black and white pictures? This will make it his, or her game - personal - while linking all 18 words in the game in the child’s mind to the ‘ar’ family - so important for spelling. This is a simple game for either 2 or 3 players. If playing with other children, the teacher should watch closely to ensure that the children are sounding the words out correctly. Use as a discrete form of assessment: is the pupil using knowledge of letter sounds - or GUESSING which will lead to failure?Timely intervention now can prevent much trouble later on. Let your pupils have fun learning ‘ar’! Why not send it home for homework? Can be used with any programme including Letters and Sounds Phases 3 + 4

A simple phonemic awareness board game for 2 players to help children hear the sounds 'ar 'and ‘or’ in words. Some children need more oral work before they can read and spell words with ‘or’ and ‘ar’ successfully, so this game can give vital help. Note: children will not be expected to read any words. It is an oral game, based on pictures. Very suitable for Special Needs/EFL/ESL learners.

Here is a new series of five decodable phonic CVC words reading books (with a short vowel sound). Read in order for best effect. Vocabulary builds up systematically, repeating from book to book. Helps to build confident fluent readers. These CVC reading books can be used with two groups of children: a more confident child who is learning to read for the first time, an older child who maybe needs to revisit this level as part of a reading intervention programme. They have more text on a page than my CVC Reading books. They may even be used after a child has completed the 16 book set, to extend reading ability, as they use the same characters and the same vocabulary. They can be used in the early stages of all good phonic programmes but were written for Reading Made Simple, a 100% free reading and writing programme, which is popular with parents and home educators. These books : Have 99% decodable vocabulary - with just words like dog/hen/ran/get Only use sight words is and the and to. Have absolutely NO nasty surprises to trip a child up and make him/her lose confidence Keep pictures to the minimum: enough to engage and ensure comprehension, but not to encourage guessing Fluency charts are included listing all the keywords in each book. The child is encouraged to read each chart at least three times and colour a star after each reading. Suitable for use by: Teachers Parents Home educators Private tutors ANYONE!! Each book is either 12 or 16 A5 pages each.

This is a pack of 12 ‘a-e’ split digraph, phonic worksheets, including flashcards and a phonic game. Theses worksheets were written for children who need a slower pace and more instruction but will equally suit the young child learning phonics. They can be used with any systematic phonic programme - including RWI, Jolly Phonics and Letters and Sounds, or Reading Made Simple. They are designed to be used as a workbook, but can be used individually as needed. They take the child from aurally hearing the new sound in word, to gradually reading and writing words with the ‘a-e’ sound. They particularly suit those with dyslexia, or suspected dyslexia, who have failed with other approaches to learning phonics. They are highly systematic, and have a limited amount on each page as young/special needs pupils tire easily. These ‘a-e’ phonic worksheets work on my ‘sound-it-out’ principal for special needs: See it! Sound-it-out! Write it! Thye utilise ‘sound-it-out’ boxes (Orton Gillingham style) to group sounds in each word to visually guide the pupil to sound out the new words. Lots of repetition builds confidence and success and culminates in the reading of two passages, with reading comprehension activities alongside. For more help, see Reading Made Simple, a 100% FREE systematic Reading and Writing programme for all ages and abilities. This book is one of a series. See also: or Phonic Worksheets ee Phonic Worksheets

Here are three simple activities to help a child to learn to blend (updated from advert). I wrote them for an 8 yr old child whom I tutor. He has a smattering of phonic knowledge, but having not learned to blend properly is now guessing and unable to read fluently. This is a common problem, but it must not be allowed to persist or the child will not learn to read fluently, or will take a very long time to do so. These activities are listening activities. This is a deliberate act to limit the amount of exposure a child has to seeing CVC words, before working on blending with him/her, and so further limiting the possibility that a child will memorise the words before having learned to blend. By all means use ‘robot’ talk as you do these activities with your child. Before doing these activities with your child: Do ensure that a child can give the correctly pronounced sounds on sight of the letters of the alphabet. Remove any distractions/background noise. Have the child’s full attention. Full instructions and black and white pictures provided.

Here is the set of phonic word lists for Level 1 of Reading Made Simple, the 100% FREE reading and writing programme for all ages and abilities. Each phonic family has a list of around 10 words on average for the pupil to study each week. Here the words are listed, with the phonic family highlighted in red. The sounds covered are: ck, oo, ee, sh, ch, nd/nt ending, nk endings, th, ng, ing, ar, or, a-e, i-e, o-e, u-e, ai, ea, oa, high, it, ay, ou, aw, oi, ur, al, er, y ending both ee and eye, ea saying/e/, ow as in cow, a saying /ar/, long vowels with no ‘e’, ow saying oe, ew, oy and rules concerning ‘wa’ words. Use alongside any good phonic programme, or for reading intervention - have the child read the lists after teaching each new sound. The word lists form the basis of our 100% FREE phonic reading programme, for new learners and reading intervention, Reading Made Simple.

A phonetic reader for those beginning to read longer simple texts - with words that can be sounded out using phonic knowledge and only a few most common sight words. This book starts to introduce words with more than one syllable. Teach the child to chunk the syllables to sound them out. This book contains factual information about the life-cycle of a butterfly written in fictional style. Children will have fun learning science as they read! Learn about butterflies through a simple story. Use the Butterflies phonic reader with any phonic programme after a child has learned the basic digraphs and trigraphs, for example, after Phase 5 Letters and sounds, or after RWI Speed Set 3 have been completed. This book is also part of the Reading Made Simple reading programme - 100% FREE.

This is a fun phonic game to help children learn the sounds ‘m’ and ‘n’ when learning the initial sounds. Some children have difficulty with these two sounds, so this game can help clear any confusion. Simple-to-play, print n’ play! It is a game for 2 players and can be played with either the pictures as baseboards with players collecting their letters or with letters as the baseboard, collecting pictures. Or, of course, it can be played both ways to give even more practice! The ‘m’ or ‘n’ Game is suitable for: young learners, those with special needs, and ESL/EFL students. Black and white for eco printing. Colour your own or get a colour version here. It can easily be used in class, at home or in a one-to-one situation.

A simple game to help children over the tedium of learning to blend, giving plenty of practice blending CVC words, while having fun. An updated version of a classic game! Youc an just play as a board game with the fish cards scattered on the table or add more fu by making your own simple rod with a stick, string and magnet and pop a paperclip on each fish. Over 90+ words included so you will never get bored! Target the medial sound that each pupil needs practice of.

This ck reading book is a sample of my graded, systematic, phonic reading books with nearly 100% decodable words for the sounds: ck,oo, ee, sh, ch, th, ng, ing, ar and or. Suitable for use with any phonic programme, including Letters and sounds Phase 2 and RWI Speed Sets 1+ 2, once a child cna blends words with a short vowel sound, including those with consonant blends. You can find the complete Red Level Set 1 books in a package with the simple lesson notes and all you need to help your child learn to read, including the necessary flashcards and phonic word lists here, saving you time and effort: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12863669 Special Features of these graded phonic reading books: As each new phonic sound is introduced, words from that phonic family are practiced and words met in previous readers revised, while new words from phonic sound families already taught are gradually introduced. Because of this highly structured nature they are suitable for all children to enable good progress , but particularly for those who are struggling to learn to read. The books should be read in sound order as above. They only use the sight words: he, we, me, be, she, so, give, have, says. they, are The pictures are minimal and do not encourage guessing so that meaning has to be gleaned from the text. Each book tells a simple story with humour where possible They have been tried on tested on many children now, including some with profound difficulties. Matching workbooks consolidate and revise learning. Vocabulary repeats so aiding reading fluency and building security and confidence. They are based on the latest research and evidence based methods. If your child is struggling to learn to read for whatever reason, these books can help. Who are the graded phonic reading books for? These books can be used older struggling readers with dyslexia, or any with a processing difficulty of any kind. Teaching reading Reading intervention They were written for Reading MadeSimple but can be used with Letters and Sounds Phases 3 and 4, and RWI Speed Set 2. You can help a struggling reader today!

An easy phonetic reader for those beginning to read longer simple texts - with words that can be sounded out using phonic knowledge and only a few most common sight words. Learn about a garden bird - the Chaffinch- through a simple story. Learn Science at the same time! Use with any phonic programme after a child has learned the basic digraphs and trigraphs, for example, after Phase 5 Letters and sounds, or after RWI Speed Set 3 have been completed. This book contains factual information about Rooks besting in spring, written in fictional style. Children will have fun learning science as they read!