A selection of games that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning Set 2 sounds as presented in the RWI scheme. Great for intervention and consolidation before moving onto Set 3. Each game contains words with the following sounds: ay, ee, igh, ow (snow), oo (boot), oo (look), ar, or, air, ir, ou (cloud), oy Games include: ♦ Bingo (calling card + 32 game cards) ♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game) ♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game) ♦ Loop Cards (32 ‘I have… / Who has…’ cards) ♦ Jigsaw Puzzle (match the pictures with the words) ♦ Tarsia (join the triangles so that the words are alongside the correct pictures) ♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row) ♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win) ♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game) ♦ Planetary Pick-Up (2-player roll around the board collecting things/aliens) ♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game) ♦ Fuel-Up (two-player dice game) ♦ Battleships (phonics-based variation of the traditional game) Most of the resources contain a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘e-e’ split digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Vowel phoneme sound chart. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable multi-syllable word slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘e-e’ grapheme. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘e-e’ words. ♦ An interactive ‘Real Word or Alien Word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the i-e split digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ Animated, decodable ‘syllable’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘i-e’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘i-e’ words. ♦ Add the ‘magic e’ slides. ♦ An interactive ‘Which spelling is correct?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien Word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the u-e split digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ Animated, decodable ‘syllable’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘u-e’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘u-e’ words. ♦ Add the ‘magic e’ slides. ♦ An interactive ‘Which spelling is correct?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien Word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘ea’ vowel digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Vowel phoneme sound chart. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ Animated, decodable multi-syllable word slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘ea’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘ea’ words. ♦ A ‘How many words can you make…?’ silde. ♦ An interactive ‘Which spelling is correct…?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the o-e split digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ Animated, decodable ‘syllable’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘o-e’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘o-e’ words. ♦ Add the ‘magic e’ slides. ♦ An interactive ‘Which spelling is correct?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien Word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘er’ (stretched) grapheme. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Vowel phoneme sound chart. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ Animated, decodable ‘syllable’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘er’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘er’ words. ♦ A ‘How many words can you make…?’ silde. ♦ A ‘Real or Alien Word?’ interactive quiz. ♦ A ‘Which spelling is correct?’ interactive quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.

A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to consolidate the ability to read and spell words from the Year 1 Common Exception Word list. Perfect for independent activities, homework or intervention. Includes: ♦ Bingo (calling card + 32 game cards) ♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game) ♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game) ♦ Loop Cards (32 ‘I have… / Who has…’ cards) ♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row) ♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win) ♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game) ♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game) Most of the resources are created using a pre-cursive font.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the a-e split digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ Animated, decodable ‘syllable’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘a-e’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘a-e’ words. ♦ Add the ‘magic e’ slides. ♦ An interactive ‘Which spelling is correct?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien Word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file was created in PowerPoint 2003 so should be compatible with all newer versions. It is in .pps format.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘qu’ consonant digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘qu’ grapheme. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘qu’ words. ♦ An interactive ‘Is it qu…?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien Word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font as used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘igh’ (long i) grapheme. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Vowel phoneme sound chart. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ Animated, decodable ‘syllable’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘igh’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘igh’ words. ♦ A ‘How many words can you make…?’ silde. ♦ A ‘Which spelling is correct?’ interactive quiz. ♦ A ‘Real or Alien Word?’ interactive quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check.

A set of printable resources that can be laminated and used to support teaching and learning the ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ vowel digraphs. Great for one-to-one and intervention as well as group and class use. Includes: ♦ Bingo (calling card + 32 game cards) ♦ Race to the Moon (track-based dice game) ♦ Rocket ‘n’ Roll (single or multi-player grid-based dice game) ♦ Loop Cards (32 ‘I have… / Who has…’ cards) ♦ Jigsaw Puzzle (match the pictures with the words) ♦ Tarsia (join the triangles so that the words are alongside the correct pictures) ♦ Falling Star Four in a Row (2-player, read the words and try to get four in a row) ♦ Moon Mountain (2-player, leave the last word to win) ♦ Nebular Noughts & Crosses (phonics-based tic tac toe game) ♦ Planetary Pick-Up (2-player roll around the board collecting things/aliens) ♦ Solar Squares (phonics-based boxes game) ♦ Starlight Sudoku (phonics-based selection of 4 by 4 Sudoku puzzles) ♦ Battleships (phonics-based variation of the traditional game) Most of the resources contain a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘ch’ consonant digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘ch’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘ch’ words. ♦ An interactive Real or Alien Word?’ quiz. ♦ A ‘How many words can you make…?’ silde. ♦ An interactive ‘Is it ch…?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien Word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check.

This is a BIG book containing loads of printables to help children learn to read and spell words containing long vowel phonemes. It covers the following sounds: a-e (split digraph), ai, ay, other long a, ea, ee, ie, ey, -y (long e), i-e (split digraph), igh, -y (long i), o-e (split digraph), oa, ow (long o), ol, u-e (split digraph), oo (long u), ew, other long u New sounds added: e-e (split digraph), i (long e), ie (long i), i (long i), oe, o (long o), ue, ui, ou (long u) For each sound there is a selection of sheets including: ♦ Reading and Spelling Practice ♦ Spell the Pictures ♦ Look/Write/Cover/Check ♦ Handwriting Practice ♦ Find the Graphemes ♦ Wordsearches ♦ Anagrams ♦ Spelling Lists ♦ Spelling Strips

Please Note: In this PowerPoint ‘nk’ is taught as a single phoneme as is common in some popular phonics schemes. This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘nk’ blend. It contains: ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘nk’ pattern. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘nk’ words. ♦ A ‘How many words can you make…?’ silde. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or alien word…?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Which spelling is correct?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 (PC) onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘ar’ grapheme. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Vowel phoneme sound chart. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ Animated, decodable ‘syllable’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘ar’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘ar’ words. ♦ A ‘How many words can you make…?’ silde. ♦ A ‘Which spelling is correct?’ interactive quiz. ♦ A ‘Real or Alien Word?’ interactive quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘ng’ consonant digraph. It contains… ♦ Sound and picture slides. ♦ Decodable ‘real word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Decodable ‘alien word’ slides (colour-coded and black). ♦ Animated, decodable ‘root word’ slides. ♦ A slide showing three levels of decodable words containing the ‘ng’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘ng’ words. ♦ A ‘How many words can you make…?’ silde. ♦ An interactive ‘Which spelling is correct…?’ quiz. ♦ An interactive ‘Real or Alien Word?’ quiz. Words are displayed in a pre-cursive font similar to that used in the Year 1 Phonics Check. The file is in .pps format and will work in PowerPoint from 2003 onwards. If you’re not sure if it will work on your system, please download our free a-e (split digraph) sample to check.

A writing aid created to help children add more detail when describing what characters look like.

UPDATE: Upper case letters moved so they in line with their lower case equivalent. Handwriting lines added over letters. Punctuation moved to its own box. Designed to be printed double-sided. One side contains: Year 1 Exception words grouped into those with similar spelling patterns where possible. Lower case and upper case letters on handwriting lines. ‘bed’ pictures to support children who reverse b’s and d’s. Examples of common -s and -es plurals. Examples of common -ed and -ing verbs. Examples of common -er nouns. Examples of common -er and -est adjectives. Examples of common un- words. Examples of some common compound words. The other side contains graphemes grouped according to their phoneme. We may produce a Year 2 version depending on popularity.