Halloween resources from Woodland Trust

Absolutely loads of activities from the Woodland Trust from making a broomstick with twigs to a spooky scavenger hunt.

Halloween themed decorated writing frames

Letters and Sounds captions for reading and writing (more)

Letters and Sounds phase 2 - choose the picture/choose the word

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.

Retell the story of Guy Fawkes with this writing frame

Bonfire night decorated writing frame

Guy Fawkes story and firework display on Youtube

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Story for children, very easy to understand

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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.

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.

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.

Creative writing opportunities

Halloween is coming up so why not let your children have a go at some creative writing with these prompts.

Halloween decorated writing frame

Letters and Sounds Halloween match it game

Letters and Sounds phase 2 'Collect the alien words' satpin

Letters and Sounds Phase 2 Rubbish or treasure satpin

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.

Letters and Sounds phase 2 matching pairs game