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