Thursday 28 October 2010
Halloween resources from Woodland Trust
Absolutely loads of activities from the Woodland Trust from making a broomstick with twigs to a spooky scavenger hunt.
Tuesday 26 October 2010
Sunday 24 October 2010
Thursday 21 October 2010
Letters and Sounds captions for reading and writing
Some children find it really difficult to remember a sentence/caption whilst writing because they have so much to remember whilst spelling. I use this idea with some children.
Show the picture and read the caption/sentence together.
Cut out the words and rearrange the caption/sentence together.
Child rearranges the caption/sentence.
Child closes eyes whilst you steal a word. Can they remember which word it was. Repeat this several times.
Finally remove the word cards and dictate the sentence/caption to the child. Show the picture.
Can they remember it? Can they write it unaided? Encourage stretching out of each word to enable them to spell it. Remind them that as each word was in a box they need to put a space between each word.
These captions cover sounds from phase 2 and 3 of letters and sounds.
Show the picture and read the caption/sentence together.
Cut out the words and rearrange the caption/sentence together.
Child rearranges the caption/sentence.
Child closes eyes whilst you steal a word. Can they remember which word it was. Repeat this several times.
Finally remove the word cards and dictate the sentence/caption to the child. Show the picture.
Can they remember it? Can they write it unaided? Encourage stretching out of each word to enable them to spell it. Remind them that as each word was in a box they need to put a space between each word.
These captions cover sounds from phase 2 and 3 of letters and sounds.
Labels:
EAL,
Letters and Sounds,
Phonics,
SEN
Guy Fawkes story and firework display on Youtube
Click here
Story for children, very easy to understand
Click here
Great just for watching, listening and describing the sounds.
Story for children, very easy to understand
Click here
Great just for watching, listening and describing the sounds.
Letters and Sounds - phase 2 and 3 'Bang game' for EAL/SEN
This 'bang' game is played in the same way as the others but with a strong visual clue. This can help children with EAL to learn new vocabulary as well as blend the word.
Labels:
EAL,
Early years,
Letters and Sounds,
Phonics,
SEN
Letters and Sounds - Phase 2 'Bang' game for grapheme recognition and word building
Print, laminate and cut up. Put in a bag and pass round. Child to read the grapheme. If correct keeps it. When a child picks the 'bang' card they have to shout 'bang' and put their letters back. They keep the bang card. As an extention can any of the children make a word with their letters? I have put some extra vowels in this game. If you want to play this more of a word building game then take out some of the 'bang' cards. Make the game really pacey.
Letters and Sounds - phase 2 'satpinmd' BANG game
Children love this game. Print, laminate and cut up. Put all the words into a bag and pass round. Child has to read the word. If correct he keeps it. Children collect cards until they pick a 'bang' card. They then have to shout 'bang' and put all their cards back into the bag and they keep the 'bang' card. Game is over when all the cards have been read. The winner is the one who has the most 'real' words.
With these letters I think it is important to point out the capital letters for the names and also how the capitals still make the same sound.
Labels:
Letters and Sounds,
Phonics,
SEN
Friday 15 October 2010
Write a story - prompts for creative writing
Put these in your writing area and allow children the time to do some extended writing of their choice.
Could also be used to tell stories verbally perhaps in groups.
Could also be used to tell stories verbally perhaps in groups.
Thursday 14 October 2010
Creative writing opportunities
Halloween is coming up so why not let your children have a go at some creative writing with these prompts.
Sunday 10 October 2010
Friday 8 October 2010
Letters and Sounds phase 3 matching pairs game
I am making a few of these at the moment due to having some children with EAL in my groups. I find this way helps them learn new vocabulary aswell as phonics.
Thursday 7 October 2010
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