Initial sound bingo

I have just made this for my letters and sounds group. It fits in nicely with phase 2 as it covers the initial s a t p n i sounds

Children have a card with pictures on. You either show them the grapheme card and they put a counter over the correct picture or you say the sound and they find the correct picture and cover it with a counter.

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Learning to talk, talking to learn - free dvd

There is a small charge for postage.


Learning to talk, talking to learn

Quote from the site:

'This resource is essential for anyone professionally involved with early years education and child care. It demonstrates best practice for supporting the development of a child’s language and communication skills in various settings, from child-minding groups to nursery school.Produced in association with I CAN, the UK’s leading charity for communication disability and language delay among young children it consists of a DVD and workbook and offers 3 hours of guided learning, presented by Dr Tanya Byron (House of Tiny Tearaways).'

Recipes for children

I made these when my children were younger. They loved these recipes. Very simple and tasty.

Free seeds for children

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Developing the skills for handwriting

I found a few sites today whilst researching for some of our SEN children.

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Letters and Sounds activities for all phases

Click here for pairs game (Big cat phonics)
High frequency word pairs game (Big Cat phonics)
Writing support
Big Cat phonics lots of other worksheets available

Domino maths

I just found this on the internet and thought it would be very useful. Ways to use dominoes in Maths. I used to spend hours with my children playing with dominoes and we used to make up different games with them.

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I just made this simple template for making dominoes you could use them for numeracy or for word matching. Click the image and then right click and save to your computer. Insert into a word document and stretch to fit the page.

g y confusion

Charlie has requested a poster to help a child who gets confused over g and y. Her idea was to have the g with a football to make it look like a goal. Here are a couple of posters to try and address that problem.

b d p q confusion

Children often get these letters the wrong way round when first learning to read and write. Also some children continue to do this well into their education at school. Here are a few posters and ideas that might help these children. I found these on the internet

b d poster
b d p q posters
b d p q posters and ideas

Some nice ideas from posters from the SEN TES forum I got this idea from Old Senco on that thread. I photographed my daughter's hands so thank you to my daughter.

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Vee had just sent me this game just click the link. Thank you Vee!

Vee's game

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Virtual word dice

Great for blending for reading. Type in the words you are working on. Great for IWB.

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Virtual number dice

I thought this looked useful especially on an IWB.

Virtual dice
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Cinderella

Some pictures that I scanned from the old ELS scheme and a story writing frame I made. Click the images to enlarge and right click and save to your computer.

Cinderellastoryframe.doc

Cinderella clipart

Cinderella stationary

Finger spaces in writing

As we all know in the early stage of a child learning to write they don't put finger spaces in their work.

Here are some resources to help, remind and encourage children to do that.

Spacemen Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to download clipart for sticking to a lolly stick.

Not sure if these will work because I haven't tried them out yet. If you click on the image to open and then right click and save to your computer. You can then insert into a word document and make them the size you want. The idea is to laminate and cut out. Child makes the rocket go along the page and the little spaceman makes the spaces in the child's writing.

A nice idea is to give a child a lollipop stick and let them decorate it themselves so as to take ownership of it.
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Letters and Sounds Phase 4

Some links and resources for phase 4 of 'Letters and Sounds' Use the synopsis to find what you need to teach at this phase

Phase 4 PDF
Planning sheets
Brenden's resources
Resources from Coventry Learning Grid

Letters and Sounds Phase 3

Some links and resources for phase 3 of 'Letters and Sounds'

You will have to go through the long vowel worksheets to find the sound you are working on. Use the synopsis of 'Letters and Sounds' to find the sounds you need for phase 3.

Phase 3 pdf
Planning sheets and resources
Phase 3 sound buttons interactive
Brenden's resources
Long vowel worksheets/activities
Lots of long vowel worksheets
Parents handout covering phase 2 and 3
Word lists

Interactive game

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Letters and Sounds synopsis of the phases 1 - 5

This is a synopsis of phases 1 - 5 from the Sounds ~ write website. A very useful document to have.

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I just found another useful synopsis of the Letters and Sounds document

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This is useful for all phases

Phoneme checker

Website for parents and carers of 5-7 year olds

This website has been brought to my attention and what makes it even more special is that it was set up by an HLTA. Please take a look if you have young children or grandchildren, loads of lovely resources and ideas.

abc123kidz

Letters and Sounds Phase 2

DFES PDF
four in a row game
full circle games
word wheel
Brenden's phase two resources
Phase 2 planning and assessment sheets
Sound mat from Communication 4 all
TES resource bank
Phase 2 sound buttons interactive
Jolly phonics actions all on one sheet
How to pronounce each of the phonemes (ideal to send home to parents)
Parents handout (covering phase 2 and 3)

Poems, rhymes and songs for children

Food poems, rhymes and songs
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Winter poems, rhymes and songs

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Nursery Rhymes

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Wavs to download (fantastic selection)

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Nursery rhyme search

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Spring songs

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Adding caterpillar

Click the image and then right click and save to your computer. Insert the image into a word document set for landscape. Laminate and then write a number in the first section with a dry wipe pen. Children have to add one or add two etc to that number and continue until they reach the head section. You can make up alsorts of rules to differentiate children's abilities.