Click on the picture to hear the caption, drag the letters into the correct box to spell the words in the caption. Click on the sound spots to see if you're correct. Have a go at writing the caption on the line at the bottom.

Read the CVC captions and match them to the correct picture, children are greeted by applause when they get it right and are redirected back if they get it wrong. Six different captions to read.

Meet Angelina Adjective one of the Word Wizards who help children learn about different word types and spelling rules. Covers year 1 and year 2 English curriculum objectives.

Beginning of the school year activity. These activities are based on the book 'Oh the Places You'll Go' by Dr Suez. They include an inspirational quotes notebook file and stimulus photos for children to think of their own aspirational dreams. Also included is a height chart so children can see how much they grow in the school year. A lesson plan and writing templates can be purchased separately from my TES shop. Thank you

Meet the Word Wizards, Adi Adverb who teaches children how to recognise and use adverbs in sentences. Angelina Adjective who teaches children how to spot and use adjectives in sentences as well as how to apply suffixes using spell spelling rules. Vera Verb and her ‘helpful’ brother Vic who teach children all about verbs, suffixes and tenses too and Finally Norbet Noun and his newt named Neil who teach children the difference between proper nouns and ordinary nouns as well as teaching them the plural rules. This 198 page interactive powerpoint is all you need to teach year 1 and year 2 about these important word types. Work sheets can be purchased from my shop

Planning for the phoneme families includes year 1 and year 2 spelling mats. PowerPoint presentations for each of the families can be purchased from my shop. These include all the different graphemes for each Phoneme family. I am currently selling everything you need to teach the 20 long and short vowel families in a handy bundle for just £2.

Meet the /ure/ family one of the twenty vowel sounds in the English language. Children practise reading and spelling words containing this phoneme using sound spots as support. The end of the lesson children practise these spellings in dictated sentences. Use the phoneme dash and vowel family spelling mats to further support children’s spellings, both available in my shop. Thank you

This set of Powerpoints are used as starters for the Phoneme Families. Each set builds on the phoneme families that the children will have been taught in the previous week.

A slideshow for supporting children with quick recall of the graphemes for both the long and short sounds a, e, i, o and u. The graphemes are presented in phoneme families and have the phoneme family character present to support children with recalling the correct phoneme. I remind children of the family name to help them remember e.g. "This is the Grey family all their graphemes make the sound ‘ai’ . The first slides are all short vowel sounds.

Two Spelling mats arranged in phoneme families and displaying CEW in bold. One for year 1 and one for year 2. There are two copies one in letter join font and the other in comic sans. Both the year 1 and year 2 mats also include print outs for children to take home and practise spelling.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the ‘ai’ sound. They’re the Grey family and like to dress in grey to reinforce their ‘ai’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the ‘igh’ sound. They’re the Green family and like to dress in green to reinforce their ‘ee’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. It contains at least a weeks worth of phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the long vowel ‘oo’ sound. They’re the Blue family and like to dress in blue to reinforce their ‘oo’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. It contains at least a weeks worth of phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

An activity to go with the Norbert Noun PowerPoint which explains the spelling rules for plurals.

Four games designed to support children in rehearsing their phonics skills prior to the phonic screening test. Children use their phonics skills to translate the alien language. In these games the children take on the role of aliens, they learn how to ask and answer questions like an alien. solve an alien treasure hunt and also create their own alien words. Most words have been used in past test papers. This activity is designed to be carried out over a number of days or as a carousel of activities throughout the day I have enclosed three copies of the slideshow. One in my preferred font, letterjoin but also one in comic sans and one in sassoon Inf . If you have any issues with the font please contact me. Thank you

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the ‘oa’ sound. They’re the Gold family and like to dress in gold to reinforce their ‘oa’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. It contains at least a weeks worth of phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

The Word Wizards are a group of wizards who explain word types and their jobs to children. In this presentation you will meet Norbert Noun and his newt named Neil who together explain the difference between a proper and a common noun and the need for a capital letter. They also explain the plural rules and have some handy suffix spells to help children remember as well as this children learn about noun phrases.

A set of noun word cards. These are useful to use with the Word Wizard activites

An end of the term smartboard activity to support a dictated sentence session revising spelling days of the week, the prefix un and suffixes ed, ing, est, es and s.

Meet the short vowel family , a family of dogs that represent all the graphemes that make the short vowel sounds in KS1 . All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 which include these phonemes are included. As well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its phoneme and explores the different spelling patterns. Sound spots are used to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the families they can apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.