Friday 18 April 2008

Teaching the alternative spellings of /air/




Thank you to Suem who wrote this little story for my year one/twos. Click on the image to open it. Right click and save to your computer. Insert into a word document.

Read the story to the children and get them to raise their hands each time they hear the /air/ sound. Then give children copies of the story for them to read and to underline each word with the /air/ sound. Children to shout out the words whilst you write them on the whiteboard into the different spelling patterns.




Child's Garden of Verse Robert Lewis Stevenson

I found this website with poetry from this lovely book.

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Thursday 17 April 2008

Poetry to teach phonics

Hurt no living thing
Christina Rossetti

I like to use poetry if I can when teaching phonics. I found this poem on the internet and made it into a poster.

It has all the different spellings for the /ur/ sound.

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Thursday 3 April 2008

Segment the words


Click on the image to open it. Right click and save to your computer. Insert into a word document set for landscape. Stretch to fit. Print out and then laminate. Use with children to practise segmenting words. Write the word at the side and children to split it into phonemes.

Tuesday 1 April 2008

Printable colouring pages

This is a very useful site with pictures from popular stories like Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood, and the ugly duckling as well as pictures of animals and school activities.

Printable colouring pages