Are you teaching RWI at your setting? This great resource is ideal to use in your continuous provision or to send home with your pupils. Consisting of the set 1 sounds, pictures, and rhymes this is great to encourage your child to learn and write the sound.
The grey letter is to be used to trace over - I suggest creating a rainbow letter, so encourage the children to form the letter using lots of colours. Then move onto writing their own letters below.
It is important that they say the rhyme as they write the letter.
This pair of fonts (Soundbuttondots & Soundbuttondashes) allow you to add dots or dashes to your writing to represent sound buttons underneath single sounds, digraphs and trigraphs. There are even special characters included to replicate the sound buttons needed to show the connection between split digraphs.
Full disclosure - this is not a perfect ‘does the job for you without you having to think’ kind of font. I don’t have the technology to make the fonts do ligatures and automatically underline digraphs and trigraphs, but I have tried to make it as seamless and easy as I can. By switching between the two fonts, you can choose which letters have dots underneath and which have dashes (the spacing on the dashed letters is already condensed so the dashes form a continuous line), and you can insert special characters (or use the corresponding symbols) to add arrows for split digraphs. WATCH THE VIDEO TO SEE HOW, plus full written instructions included in the pack.
To my mind, this font certainly beats printing out a regular copy of work and manually adding all the sound buttons in a black pen, or trying to add dot and dash clipart underneath! We’ve all been there!
This is a chart in-keeping with letters and sounds and also variants from Ruth Miskin. It charts all the letters and sounds phonemes in order of phase and includes the variants eg long vowel phonemes and the different ways of spelling the same sound.
The complete package compatible with Letters and Sounds. Phase 2, Phase , Phase 4 and Phase 5 weekly planning. This planning follows the 4 part session and is easy to follow and teach.
This planning provides you with activites and ideas for each part of the lesson allowing for great progress.
Powerpoint with pictures and words from Phase 3 plus some sentences to read at the end, using high frequency and tricky words from the same Phase. Went down well with my children!
The children choose a colour for each letter and then colours the items which initial sound in the same colour. This covers most letters in the alphabet with a food theme.
This is a Smart Notebook File and contains a series of slides for teaching 'ch'. (about 20 minutes)
It is one in a series of Smart Notebook Files made to teach Phase 3 Phonics.
It uses Revisit/Review, Teach, Practise, Apply.
It follows planning/ ideas and information from The National Strategy's Letters and Sounds book.
Workbook for students to learn and practice their letters and sounds.
* 2 pages per letter
* tracing and writing practice
* prewriting skills and hand-eye coordination
* letter recognition and matching letters to sounds
Phonics initial sound game. Comes with 16 different sheets.
A game for 4 players.
A quick, fun game and assessment tool for phonics/eyfs teachers.
Colourful boards with lots of pictures. The aim of the game is for each child to place counters on the matching initial sound.
This resource consists of six worksheets aimed at Key Stage 1 and SEND children, focusing on the initial sounds of the letters S, A, T, P, I, and N.
Each sheet features a list of 20 words and corresponding symbols (licensed by Boardmaker), designed to help children associate sounds with images.
The worksheets are available in both colour and black-and-white.
Children are tasked with matching the words to the right symbols and can either tick off the words as they find them or write the word’s number next to the correct picture. This activity set supports learning in phonics and reading.
To extend the use of the resource you may want to laminate the colour sheets and children can use dry markers with these in the writing corner.
5 assessment sheets linked to Letters and Sounds, where children say the sound, write a word beginning with the sound and then over or under write the letters.
The final sheet includes the sounds ck, ff and ss. Children write a word that ends in each of these sounds.
A useful resource at the beginning of the school year and as an ongoing assessment.
A bumper pack of 160+ pages of resources - to help you to teach all of the new graphemes for Phase 5 of Letters and sounds to all abilities. This pack follows on from our popular Phonic Worksheets for Phases 3 and 4.
This pack will help you to Introduce the new phase 5 graphemes:
ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, u-e, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, ey, a-e, i-e, o-e, u-e, e-e, and ‘y’ saying ‘eye’ and ‘o’ saying ‘u’.
Please note: this pack uses Phase 5 tricky words as part of the comprehension passages, but does not aim to teach them.
Please not: Alternative pronunciations are not covered in this pack.
For each digraph there are:
Flashcards
Sentences to read - these build on the preceding digraphs, giving plenty of revision
Differentiated worksheets: find the missing word, complete the sentences, write the word, etc…
A reading passage including words from the newly introduced digraph
These passages also introduce tricky words, as well as being truly systematic, never introducing words that have not yet been taught. This instills confidence in pupils. These passages make great ‘reading books’.
Questions to answer about the passages
Great for classwork, revision, assessment or homework!
Fully differentiated, they meet the real needs of the average class and are fully systematic: no words are introduced for which the student has not yet learned the necessary skills to decode. They provide ample practice for students in both reading and spelling.
Suitable for use with other schemes as long as you make sure that your children know the sounds necessary to complete the sheet.
Copy, reduce, enlarge as much as you like.
For spelling dictations to accompany this book of resources please see my Phase 5 Spelling Programme.
Please see the book of Initial sounds Worksheets, the CVC/CVCC words Worksheets for Phases 2, early 3 and simple cvcc words in Phase 4 and the Phonic Worksheets for Phases 3 and 4.
These fun printable pages cover the alphabet for letter sounds and writing practice.
Each page consists of a large central letter to draw attention with images surrounding it that start with that letter.
At the bottom of each page is an area for practicing the writing of the letter
A4 booklets for each letter of the alphabet to practice letter formation and learn some initial sound words. Each letter has an A4 size sheet to fold in quarters and use as a booklet.
A booklet that goes through all the letter sounds in Spanish with an example on each page of its use. ALL pages have been designed with fun images for children to be able to personalise through their own colouring, helping them to associate the image and word.
Great for ALL key stages!
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