Bookmarks phase 2 and 3 letters and sounds

Bookmarks for Letters and Sounds Winter theme

Bookmarks for Letters and Sounds

I thought these might be useful especially when children are reading at home. It allows the parent lots of opportunity for revising sounds.

satpin find the a

Wordsearch where children have to find the letter a

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satpin find the s

A wordsearch where children have to find the letter s. Print and laminate and you can use it over and over.

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Letters and Sounds planning, week 5 for children with SEN

This is week five planning for my group. The children are excellent at reading the sounds now but not so good at writing them. I have put a huge emphasis this week on 'quickwrite'. The children need lots of practise at writing the sounds. We are also only learning 2 sounds this week. I will assess whether they can cope with anymore at the end of next week.

Week 5 Planning

Phonic picture cards sh/ch

chocolate, cheese, chain, chips, chick, church


shark, ship, shoe, shop, shirt, sheep

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.

Satpin 3 in a row game

Make your die from the SEN teacher site
or just use an old die and stick labels on it with the letters s,a,t,p,i,n

Compound words

Reading longer words is always an important stage in learning to read. I designed these to help children to break the word up when reading. Fold the second flap over and sound out the first bit and then sound the second bit out and put altogether.

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.

Illustrated sentence cards

David Lisgo from the Reading Reform Foundation Message board has very kindly given me permission to post these lovely illustrated sentence cards. I can see them being very popular with my children. Hope you find them useful too.

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.

Phonic game for group work

I saw this idea somewhere out on the internet and have used it for a long time. So thank you to the person who had the original idea.

You need a small bag or box
Some picture cards
2 or 3 small boxes with grapheme cards attached

This is a bit like a pass the parcel game and the children love it.

Put the pictures in the bag, and the boxes on the table or on the floor in the middle of the children. You then sing 'Bag of pictures, pass it round, pass it round, pass it round. Bag of pictures pass it round, what's in the bag?' (Sung to the tune of London Bridge is falling down)Who ever is holding the bag has to take out a picture and put it in the correct grapheme box.

I have tried other ways of using this lovely idea.

Bag of sounds pass it round etc and have a bag with grapheme cards in and pictures on the table.

Have also used 'Bag of words pass it round' 'what word is it?'

Young children love this game. They are all busy singing and eager for the bag to stop on them.

Letters and Sounds planning, phase 2 week 1 for children with SEN

I thought I would share my planning for Letters and Sounds phase 2. This planning is written for SEN children. I will add a week at a time. I think it's important to make the sessions fun, multisensory, visual and with lots to do. The sessions need to be pacey to keep interest. We like to sing songs and I find that really useful for keeping everyone on task. I have added hyperlinks in the planning to resources on this blog which I have made for this group.

Week One Planning

satpin game

Very simple game for SEN children or very young children. Children have a strip and coloured counters. Show the children an object and they have to cover the letter that the object begins with.