This graphic organiser, ‘Knock Your Socks Off for The King Who Rained’ asks students to apply their knowledge of homophones in the book The King Who Rained by Fred Gwynne. They will locate homophones and build vocabulary by defining the homophones they find.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Letter and Sound Recognition’ informs teaching by checking students’ letter and sound knowledge. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of the alphabet in uppercase and lowercase form.
This reading activity, ‘Letter Shake’ supports reading development by encouraging students to shake an egg carton and identify letters and sounds written in the egg carton compartments. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter-sound associations. It provides egg carton letters and egg carton pictures.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Listen and Act’ supports language development by encouraging students to listen to a list of words and follow an action card when they hear the targeted sound. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound isolation of medial sounds. It provides action cards, a Rub-a-Dub-Dub nursery rhyme chart and word …More
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Listening for Sounds in Words’ informs teaching by checking students’ ability to identify initial, medial or final sounds in words. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sounds through a fun listening activity.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Little Boy Blue’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise the discernment of the beginning sounds of words. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound isolation. It provides a Little Boy Blue nursery rhyme chart and picture cards.
This reading activity, ‘Little Words in Big Words’ provides opportunities for practice with finding words that contain smaller words.
This reading activity, ‘Little Words in Big Words’ provides opportunities for practice with finding words that contain smaller words.
This begin to read card set ‘Ll’ supports students’ reading development through practice with words containing the letter ‘l’.
This begin to read card set, ‘Long Aa’ supports students’ reading development through practice with words containing the long ‘a’ sound.
This begin to read card set, ‘Long Ee’ supports students’ reading development through practice with words containing the long ‘e’ sound.
This begin to read card set, ‘Long Ii’ supports students’ reading development through practice with words containing the long ‘i’ sound.
This begin to read card set, ‘Long Oo’ supports students’ reading development through practice with words containing the long ‘o’ sound.
This begin to read card set, ‘Long Uu’ supports students’ reading development through practice with words containing the long ‘u’ sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Long Vowels’ encourages students to say the word for each picture and find the matching word in the box below.
This phonics activity, ‘Long Vowels’ encourages students to read each example aloud then choose the word with the long vowel sound.
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Long Vowels: a’ features high-frequency words containing the long ‘a’ sound. It includes some of the most commonly occurring examples that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises and is designed to aid language development and increase phonemic awareness.
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Long Vowels: e’ features high-frequency words containing the long ‘e’ sound. It includes some of the most commonly occurring examples that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises and is designed to aid language development and increase phonemic awareness.
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Long Vowels: i’ features high-frequency words containing the long ‘i’ sound. It includes some of the most commonly occurring examples that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises and is designed to aid language development and increase phonemic awareness.
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Long Vowels: u’ features high-frequency words containing the long ‘u’ sound. It includes some of the most commonly occurring examples that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises and is designed to aid language development and increase phonemic awareness.
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Long Vowels: o’ features high-frequency words containing the long ‘o’ sound. It includes some of the most commonly occurring examples that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises and is designed to aid language development and increase phonemic awareness.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Magic Word’ supports language development by encouraging students to create a new word by substituting a sound in any position in a word. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound manipulation by sound substitution. It provides a song chart and a word list.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Mary Had a Little Word’ supports language development by encouraging students to listen to the sounds of a word and identify the word. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound blending. It provides a Mary Had a Little Lamb nursery rhyme chart and a close activity sheet.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Matching Rimes’ supports language development by encouraging students to recognise and match common rimes. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of rimes through a fun matching activity.
This phonics activity, ‘Matching Vowel Sounds’ encourages students to say each pair of words and find the word with the same vowel sound and spelling.
This phonics activity, ‘Matching Vowel Sounds ‘ee’ and ‘ea” encourages students to say the word and choose the sound to complete the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Middle Sounds’ encourages students to say each pair of words and find the word with the same middle sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Matching Vowel Sounds ‘oo’ and ‘ou” encourages students to read and say the word’ then choose the sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Letters’ encourages students to say the name of the picture and choose the missing letter to make the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Letters’ encourages students to say the name of the picture and choose the missing letter to make the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Sounds’ encourages students to read the sentence and choose the sound to complete the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Words with the ‘ow’/ ‘ou’ Sound’ encourages students to choose the correct word to complete the sentence and say the word.
This begin to read card set ‘Mm’ supports students’ reading development through practice with words containing the letter ‘m’.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Mystery Names’ supports language development by encouraging students to identify names that match target sounds. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound matching. It provides name cards and sentence frame cards.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Name Change’ supports language development by encouraging students to use the beginning sound of the names of their classmates to practise sound manipulation. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound manipulation by substitution. It provides a name tent card and a Hey Diddle Diddle nursery rhyme chart.
This reading activity, ‘Night Sky Match’ supports reading development by encouraging students to turn over star pieces that match initial sounds of given pictures. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of letter-sound associations. It provides night sky pictures, letter stars, blank letter stars, night sky picture cards and sight word cards.
This begin to read card set ‘Nn’ supports students’ reading development through practice with words containing the letter ‘n’.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Odd One Out: Vowel Sounds’ informs teaching by checking the students’ ability to distinguish vowel sounds in spoken words. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of vowel sounds through a fun activity in which students identify the odd word out, based on vowel sounds in words.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Oh Yes!’ supports language development by encouraging students to identify words that begin or end with the same sound. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound matching. It provides puppet cards.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Pet Step Rhyme’ supports language development by encouraging students to recognise rhyming word pairs and step forwards and backwards. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of rhyming. It provides rhyming word pair cards.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Play Dough Stretch’ supports language development by encouraging students to stretch the sounds in words as they roll play dough. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound segmentation. It provides word lists and a play dough recipe.
This begin to read card set ‘Pp’ supports students’ reading development through practice with words containing the letter ‘p’.
This begin to read card set ‘Qq’ supports students’ reading development through practice with words containing the letter ‘q’.
This spelling patterns word list, ‘R-Controlled Vowels: Sounds Like or’ features high-frequency words that contain the ‘or’ sound but have different spellings. It includes some of the most commonly occurring examples that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises and is designed to aid language development.
This graphic organiser, ‘Rhyme Time’ asks students to apply their knowledge of phonemic awareness and spelling patterns by identifying, sorting and classifying words with similar word endings.
This graphic organiser, ‘Rhyme Time for This Is the House That Jack Built’ asks students to identify rhyming words in the book This Is the House That Jack Built by Simms Taback.
This phonics activity, ‘Rhyming Pairs’ encourages students to read each sentence aloud and find the word that rhymes with the word in bold.
This phonics activity, ‘Rhyming Pairs’ encourages students to read each sentence aloud and find the word that rhymes with the word in bold.
This phonics activity, ‘Rhyming Pairs’ encourages students to read each sentence aloud and find the word that rhymes with the word in bold.
This phonics activity, ‘Rhyming Pairs’ encourages students to read each sentence aloud and find the word that rhymes with the word in bold.
This phonics activity, ‘Rhyming Words’ encourages students to read each question aloud and then choose the word that rhymes with the word in bold.
This phonics activity, ‘Rhyming Words’ encourages students to read each question aloud and then choose the word that rhymes with the word in bold.
This phonics activity, ‘Rhyming Words’ encourages students to read each sentence and find the word with the same end sounds as the word in bold.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Riddles’ supports language development by encouraging students to listen to riddles and substitute the beginning sounds of words to make new words. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound manipulation of beginning sounds. It provides a rime word list as well as blends and digraphs cards.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Roll the Sound’ supports language development by encouraging students to say the sounds of a word as a ball rolls from student to student. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound segmentation. It provides picture cards.
This begin to read card set ‘Rr’ supports students’ reading development through practice with words containing the letter ‘r’.
This phonics activity, ‘Same Sound’ encourages students to say each word pair and decide if the vowel sound is the same in both words.
This spelling patterns word list, ‘Schwa Vowels’ features high-frequency words containing the schwa vowel. It demonstrates where the schwa vowel can appear in a word, and includes some of the most commonly occurring examples that children are likely to encounter in early reading exercises. This list is designed to aid language development and increase phonemic …More
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Secret Draw’ supports language development by encouraging students to listen to segmented words and then draw a picture of each word. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound blending. It provides an activity sheet and a word list.
This begin to read card set, ‘Short Aa’ supports students’ reading development through practice with words containing the short ‘a’ sound.