I am an experienced Phonics teacher, who has recently started teaching Phonics to ESL preschoolers. I quickly discovered that a lot of my resources were unsuitable for children who do not have English as their first language, and at the same time I needed to adapt lessons to be taught remotely.
I plan to share resources that I currently use. If you see anything that you would like to use, but with different sounds then please contact me and I will try my best to produce an adapted version.
I am an experienced Phonics teacher, who has recently started teaching Phonics to ESL preschoolers. I quickly discovered that a lot of my resources were unsuitable for children who do not have English as their first language, and at the same time I needed to adapt lessons to be taught remotely.
I plan to share resources that I currently use. If you see anything that you would like to use, but with different sounds then please contact me and I will try my best to produce an adapted version.
This cut and paste activity is designed to be used when teaching the “qu” digraph. The student colours the “qu” picture squares and then cuts them out and glues them onto the quilt.
This activity sheet only contains the “qu” pictures because the sorting between “qu” and “cr” has already been achieved in the interactive powerpoint activity.
Vocabulary: squid, queen, square, quail, equals, quack, squash, quilt, squirrel and question.
Follow on for “ qu” Sound Interactive Phonics Sorting Activity for Smartboard / Powerpoint or stand alone activity.
These “ng” digraph worksheets can either be used as a stand alone exercise or in conjunction with the cut and paste activity sheet that is also available.
Both worksheets have the 9 “ng” final sound picture disks that were used in the interactive activity, and a word bank for students that require it.
The students choose 6 of the 9 “ng” words and write a sentence about each.
Wordbank: sing, string, wing, gong, king, fang, bang, ring and swing.
One worksheet has space for 4 sentences (with top and bottom lines) and one has space for 6 sentences (with top, bottom and a middle guide line)
The “ng” grapheme is taught in Jolly Phonics Group 5 and Phase 3 Letters and Sounds (UK)
This bundle of “qu” digraph activities includes enough material for several phonics lessons. All of the activities and worksheets are designed for EYFS/KS1 , SEND and ESOL classrooms.
You get 8 powerpoint slides, 1 cut and paste worksheet, 1 double sided activity worksheet, 6 sentence worksheets and a sentence continuation sheet.
All of the activities are based around the vocabulary: question, quilt, quack, queen, quail, squash, squid, squirrel, square, equal
1. “ qu” Sound Interactive Phonics Sorting Activity for Smartboard / Powerpoint
Description
This is an interactive phonics sound sorting activity. It can be used on a Smartboard and as a Google Slide Show or Powerpoint presentation. There are 4 different versions included, with the words in different positions., and each one is provided in black and white and colour - 8 activity slides in total.
You can use on your classroom smartboard or computer. If you are teaching remotely you can upload to Seesaw, or use remotely with Meet/Zoom/Teams.
The picture tiles are fully moveable, and the objective is to identify words beginning with the “qu” sound, and then slide the picture disk containing the correct sound onto the quilt.
As the picture disk is moved it reveals the word underneath
2. - Qu Phonics Cut and Paste Activity
This cut and paste activity is designed to be used after the students have identified the correct sounds on the smartboard.
It can also be used as a stand alone activity.
3. - Qu Phonics Activity Sheet
This double sided activity sheet is designed to be used when teaching the “qu” sound. There are five acitvities that your student can complete-
Writing Time - practise writing the word (word and visual prompt provided)
Match Time - match the picture and word
Search Time - Beginner level wordsearch with all the words going left to right (no diagnals or reverse order etc)
Sound Time - Practise writing the sound or finger tracing
Colour Time - Colour the squirrel
4. - Qu Phonics Sentence Sheets - Set of 6
These worksheets at three levels for adaptive teaching
There are 6 variations of the sentence sheet:
Close Sentence 1 - with visual prompt
Close Sentence 1 - without visual prompts
Close Sentence 2 - with visual prompt
Close Sentence 2 - without visual prompt
Line Guide Sentence Sheet with visual prompts
Line Guide Sentence Sheet without visual prompts
Bonus line guide continuation sheet
This double sided activity sheet is designed to be used when teaching the “qu” digraph. There are five acitvities that your student can complete-
Writing Time - practise writing the word (word and visual prompt provided)
Match Time - match the picture and word
Search Time - Beginner level wordsearch with all the words going left to right (no diagnals or reverse order etc)
Sound Time - Practise writing the sound or finger tracing
Colour Time - Colour the squirrel
Vocabulary: squid, queen, square, quail, equals, quack, squash, quilt, squirrel and question.
Follow on for the “ qu” Sound Interactive Phonics Sorting Activity for Smartboard / Powerpoint and Qu Phonics Cut and Paste Activity or it can be used as a stand alone activity.
I used this activity sheet as a follow on to the smartboard sorting activity and the stick and paste sheet. My ESL class covered a wide range of abilities and the students were begin with whichever activity they preferred, with no pressure to complete all of the activities in class.
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Description
This is an interactive phonics sound sorting activity to assist you in teaching the “qu” digraph.
It can be used on a Smartboard and as a Google Slide Show or Powerpoint presentation.
You can use on your classroom smartboard or computer. If you are teaching remotely you can upload to Seesaw, or use remotely with Meet/Zoom/Teams.
The first two slides have a description of what is included in the file.
What is Included
There are four versions of the activity board, so that you can use it with different age and ability students, and in case you want to repeat the activity with your class.
The first three slides have the words in different positions and the fourth has a blank background (with no words under the tiles) to give you complete flexibility.
The four slides are repeated, with one version having back and white images (that match the images on the worksheets), and the second version has colour photos that are more visually appealing when using in the classroom.
In total there are 8 activity slides.
Instructions
The activity is based around a slide that contains 20 picture squares and a bed with a squared quilt.
10 pictures disks have “qu” sound images and 10 have ”cr” sound images
The objective is to identify words beginning with the “qu” sound, and then slide the picture disk containing the correct sound onto the quilt.
As the picture disk is moved it reveals the word underneath
*** Vocabulary: question, quilt, quack, queen, quail, squash, squid, squirrel, square, equals**
I did this activity with my 6 year old pre-k ESL class and they loved it, and I taught it again to a mainstream phonics class and they also loved it.
Accompanying worksheets are available.
Six “qu” sentence sheets
These sheets use the same “qu” vocabulary as the other “qu” activities: squid, queen, square, quail, equals, quack, squash, quilt, squirrel and question.
Worksheets at three levels for adaptive teaching
There are 6 variations of the sentence sheet:
Close Sentence 1 - with visual prompt
Close Sentence 1 - without visual prompts
Close Sentence 2 - with visual prompt
Close Sentence 2 - without visual prompt
Line Guide Sentence Sheet with visual prompts
Line Guide Sentence Sheet without visual prompts
Bonus line guide continuation sheet
Follow on for the “ qu” Interactive Digraph Phonics Sorting Activity for Smartboard / Powerpoint and Qu Phonics Cut and Paste Activity or it can be used as a stand alone activity.
This worksheet is Ideal for EYFS/KS1 , SEND or ESOL classrooms
Are you looking for an activity for your class to complete at the start of the school year? Or perhaps a new student is joining your class and you would like to get to know their likes and dislikes.
I actually used this worksheet with my class at the beginning of the school year and then again at the start of term 2. It was useful to note differences in friendship groups, how likes and dislikes change.
This “All About Me” worksheet has space for your student to record:
Name
Birthday
Age
A picture of themself
Family
Friends
Pets
Hobbies
Favourite Colour
Favourite Food
Favourite Book
Favourite Subject
*There are four versions of the worksheet and you will get all four.
The worksheets are designed to used in schools that use British or American English, and for all ages from Reception (preK) to Year 6 (grade 5)
US English with blank face to help your students to draw themselves
US English with a blank box where your student can draw their face or whole body
UK English with blank face
UK English with a blank box
The boxes have been left unlined so that you or the student can choose whether to write or draw
The boxes also have visual clues to help students that are not yet reading or ESL students who need extra support.
I hope your students enjoy completing this fun activity as much as mine did.
This worksheet uses some of the same “ng” elements as an interactive final sound sorting activity I created.
Students choose the correct word to complete the sentence and write it in the space provided.
This worksheet is Ideal for EYFS/KS1 , SEND or ESOL classrooms
Words used: sing, king, bang, swing
Please be so kind as to leave me a review once you have downloaded this worksheet.
The object of this worksheet is to identify the “qu” word in each pair and circle or colour, with no writing required.
There are 8 qu pictures -
**queen
quarter
quiet
quill
quick
quad
quiet
quack**
This worksheet does not contain the same vocabulary or visuals as my other qu resources, and is designed to be a stand alone activity.
This worksheet is Ideal for EYFS/KS1 , SEND or ESOL classrooms
Please be so kind as to leave me a review once you have downloaded this worksheet.
