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The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle

I read this book to 2 children with SEN the other day and it just reminded me of how much learning there is in this book. We were lucky because we had the story sack and I could really bring the book to life. I have collected some links together for this story.

Click here to buy the book (am sure most of you have it in school somewhere)

Click here for lots of craft activities

Lots of teaching ideas here and here

A fabulous animated video





And of course Sparklebox

Snowman numberline 1-10

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Numeracy worksheets - Make your own

To make these even easier to use:

Open the image
Right click and save to your computer
Open your clipart gallery and import the jellybeans into your clipart gallery. You can then just insert them into a word document very easily.

Have fun!

You can make your own Jellybean worksheets with these images

Here is one I made in about 5 minutes

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Flash cards galore

I just found this fantastic site which would be ideal for children with EAL, SEN or Early years. You must explore!

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Clipart

This a nice site. Really big images

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One more and one less

Child to throw a die or pick a digit card and write the number in the middle. Child then works out one more and one less. Can they spot the pattern?

Print several copies, laminate and they can be used over and over again.

Story Starters

This is a great little interactive way of writing a story as a whole class on the IWB or for children to do independantly. You could just use the ideas and the children do real writing on paper.

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Teacher's notes

The Reverse thinkers questions

Phonic picture cards

apple, astronaut, ant, ambulance, bat, ball

bed, beach, candle, cup, can, cat

duck, dog, doll, dig, elephant, egg

frog, foot, fish, girl, gate, glue

hammer, hen, horse, hat, insect, igloo

jam, jug, key, king, leaf, lamp

lion, lemon, monkey, mouse, nine, nose

octopus, orange, pan, pig, penguin, queen

question, rain, rainbow, red, sing, snake

sock, sun, sausage, spider, tongue, tap

tomato, toothbrush, teeth, umbrella, van, vet

violin, wasp, wheel, watch, wink, box,

yawn, yacht, zebra, zero

I have tried to find pictures for all the sounds needed in my planning.

ch/sh/th and the rest of phase 3 sounds to be added later.

Printable templates

I found this site today and I think it's worth a mention. A fabulous selection of printables from envelopes to clocks and lampshades. Have a good look around the site for lots of other useful things.

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Autumn acrostic poem

Art - Pattern maker

This is cool. Use your imagination and create patterns.

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And here is a tile maker. You can actually save the tiles that you create.

And here is a collage maker. I love this!

The Alternative -Thinkers questions

Finger spelling

This is well worth a look at

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CVC words

Use these to teach blending. Show the initial sound and then the medial sound and then the final sound. I find with SEN it is better usually to blend the first two sounds and then add the final sound until they get the idea of blending.

HLTA and TA Staffroom Bookshop

If you want to buy any books why not check out the HLTA and TA Staffroom Bookshop

If anyone has any book they would recommend to others then let me know and I will add them to the bookshop.

Letters and Sounds phase 2 planning, week 4 for children with SEN

This is for next week so I won't be posting anymore until next weekend. I am giving my group a break from learning new sounds this week. We are just playing lots of games, practising blending, segmenting and getting our grapheme/phoneme correspondances really fast.

Week four planning

Letters and Sounds planning, phase 2, week 3 for children with SEN

Here is the 3rd weeks planning. I am now teaching only 2 letters per week and for next week I will not be teaching anymore letters. My group are pretty good now at the sounds I have taught but need lots and lots of practise with blending and segmenting. I have one star blender in the group and one child who nearly gets it but gets the end sound wrong. The rest can just about hear a blend when I say the sounds. As for segmenting some of the group are still struggling to hear initial sounds. I have 2 in the group who can now segment a cvc word. I am trying to cater for all these children in these plans. I hope they may give you some ideas of how you can teach phonics to small groups.

Week three planning

Letters and Sounds planning, phase 2, week 2 for children with SEN

Here is week 2. It is important to mention that I won't be teaching tricky words for a while. I need my little group blending and segmenting cvc words and I don't want to confuse them with tricky words. You have to make your own decisions based on the children you teach.


Week Two Planning

I also use this assessment sheet which you may find useful.