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.