A fantastic tried and tested activity. This has been used with learners with Special Educational Needs who struggled with the phonics phases. They grasped the initial letter sounds by the shapes of letters and words, using images to support. Laminate the sound boards, images and letter sounds. Select a sound board, choose a picture then sound out what can be seen and find the initial letter sound to complete the word. 15 different sound boards included. Great for children with SEN working below or on the early National Curriculum. Also suitable for EYFS and KS1 learners. Putting children at the core of their learning…

Support children in their pencil control when beginning the early stages in writing. Use alongside motor skills activities such as threading, painting, cutting and sticking etc, to build up muscles and build up control. Great for learners with SEN who have difficulty with writing and EYFS learners.

These are a great bundle of resources, focusing on the sounds of CVC words. Find the initial sounds, the middle sounds and the end sounds, encouraging children to really listen to the sounds in the words. CVC read and copy supports reading and writing, sounding out and blending the word and forming letters to copy the word, looking and letter and word shapes. CVC sound and spell activity is an extension activity which encourages children to look at the picture and say what they can see, sounding out the word for spelling. A lovely selection of activities to support phonics, reading, writing, spelling, speaking and listening for EYFS, KS1 and learners with SEN.

Here you will find a great set of comprehension activities for young learners. Starting with photographs and illustrations 20 pages in total to download, to encourage children to look at detail in the pictures and prompt discussion. Imaginative ideas can come from discussing and thinking carefully about what is happening in a picture. Children can then draw their own interpretation of what will happen next and explain it. A great tool to encourage information retrieval and confidence with ideas and imagination. Also included are 3 short comprehension activities, with short simple sentences, to not overwhelm new readers with difficult text and language. The comprehension is the key function of these activities, to develop tools to find and fetch information and understand what has been read. Putting children at the core of their learning…

This is a set of matching pair cards. These can be used to build sentences of past and present tense. Also included is a sheet with words already given where knowledge can be assessed on independently using past and present tense in the correct context. Putting the love back in learning…

This is a lovely activity, the dog Benji Boo encourages children to sound and say the words as they appear in the powerpoint, a picture of the word appears to check if they are right. Very child friendly and very engaging. Also included is a phonics train, displaying phase 2 words to sound and say. Putting the love in learning…

This is a lovely set of resources to support teaching the prefix ‘un’ in KS1, suitable for Year 1 and Year 2 learners. The powerpoint is interactive and very child friendly, enthusing and engaging. Also included are worksheets to assess understanding and a word search activity to support vocabulary building of words with the ‘un’ prefix.

Here are 7 different activities to support the ‘All about me’ topic in EYFS. There are 2 cute poems which children can make personal to them as well as a range of other activities including a maths about me and a literacy about me sheet. These are lovely activities for young learners to realise how unique and special they all are.

EYFS, SEN & KS1 Read Trace Write sheets for Phonics Phase 2 CVC words. This is a lovely activity for children in their first stages of development in reading and writing. The activity includes clear, bright illustrations and photographs to support children in their recognition and sounding out of the words. The Phase 2 words shown on the cards should be sounded out and read first, then they can be traced by the learners. The letters and sounds which make up each word can be then written in the grids provided. Encourage children to also look at the shape of the words as this does help when writing the words themselves.