This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support teaching and learning the ‘ur’ 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 ‘ur’ grapheme. ♦ A set of spelling pictures with a link to the words. ♦ Three ‘silly sentences’ containing lots of ‘ur’ 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. Please note: This resource is designed to be adult-led. It does not contain any sound recordings.

Year 1 number and place value knowledge organiser mat. Designed to be enlarged to A3, laminated and used for reference and revision. Please comment if you find this useful or if you think it could be improved in any way. :-)