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.

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.

Letters and Sounds Halloween match it game

Letters and Sounds phase 2 'Collect the alien words' satpin

Letters and Sounds Phase 2 Rubbish or treasure satpin

Letters and Sounds phase 3 matching pairs game

I am making a few of these at the moment due to having some children with EAL in my groups. I find this way helps them learn new vocabulary aswell as phonics.

Letters and Sounds phase 2 matching pairs game

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Letters and Sounds Phase 3 - Rubbish and Treasure worksheet ch/ng/sh

Letters and Sounds Phase 3 - Rubbish and Treasure /ar/ /air/

Or pictures and sentences - Letters and Sounds phase 3

Print out the pictures, laminate and cut up. Print out the sentences, laminate and cut up. Child has to read the sentence and then match it with the correct picture. You could also show a picture and ask the child to write the sentence that goes with it. For SEN children show the sentence and read together. Cut the sentence strip into individual words and scramble up. Children to try and rearrange. When rearranged then play word thief. Children to close their eyes whilst you steal a word. Do they know which word is missing? When the child can remember the sentence then do a dictation. Child to write the sentence on their whiteboard.

Air pictures and sentences - Letters and Sounds Phase 3

Print out the pictures, laminate and cut up. Print out the sentences, laminate and cut up. Child has to read the sentence and then match it with the correct picture. You could also show a picture and ask the child to write the sentence that goes with it. For SEN children show the sentence and read together. Cut the sentence strip into individual words and scramble up. Children to try and rearrange. When rearranged then play word thief. Children to close their eyes whilst you steal a word. Do they know which word is missing? When the child can remember the sentence then do a dictation. Child to write the sentence on their whiteboard.

Alternate spellings of or

See instructions for playing the game here

satpin game Letters and Sounds phase 2

I saw the idea for this game on this website
Laminate the cards and cut out. Place in a box and children take turns to pick a card, blend and read it. If correct they keep it. BUT if a child picks a card with 'bang' written on then they shout 'bang' and put all their cards back but they keep the 'bang' card. I haven't tried it but I reckon the kids will love it. I have made the game with the letters 'satpin' but it could be used with any new grapheme and at any phase. Also could be used to learn tricky words and even graphemes. You could put all the phase 2/3/5 graphemes on cards. I have included a blank template for you to use with your own words.

Letters and Sounds - Revisit and review. Stop the bus game

Stop the bus game

Cut out and laminate the cards. Choose 4 cards. Write the category name in each box on the sheet. Give the children a target sound. Start off easy with phase 2 graphemes and work up to long vowel sounds. Children to write a word in each category which either begins with the focus sound or contains the focus sound. You decide. The first child (or pair of children) to fill in all the categories shouts 'Stop the bus' Everyone must stop. If they have all the correct words then they win. It's a nice idea to have a bell for them to ring when they shout stop the bus.

Letters and Sounds - revisit and review

I often start my phonics sessions with a little puzzle. I find the children rise to the challenge and really enjoy it. It is a good way to revisit graphemes from previous phases. This is a dead simple game but I do think the simplest games are the best. Children have a set time of 2 minutes to come up with as many words as they can think of using the graphemes written in the box. I have done a blank one so you can simply write in the graphemes you want to use and then photocopy.
I usually do a target grapheme in green and the rest in black. They have to use the green grapheme in every word. We do sometimes get nonsense words which I do accept as long as the child can read it. Again a good way of just blending sounds. We call these alien words.
After 2 minutes I ask who has got more than 10? More than 9? etc the child with the most reads down their list. Often all my group want to read their words out. All good practise :)

Letters and sounds - Santa's face sound mat

This could be used as an assessment tool. Children to put a piece of cotton wool on each sound they know. It could also be used as a sound mat so children can see how the letters are formed and as a reminder when writing independantly. You could also use it for games. Find the beginning sound for 'cat', find the beginning sound for 'dog', What sound comes at the end of 'tick'. It could also be used as a bingo game.