Phonics planning

On my 'phonics blog' I am writing a whole series of planning sessions aimed at children with SEN or children who are falling behind. Each day I am adding a lesson. You can access all the lessons so far by looking on this link.

Number recognition and fine motor skills

Another fab activity for counting and number recognition using pipe cleaners and small beads. Lots of practice with find motor skills too. Check out this link

Here you can push on the brighter children with a simple addition problem

Ordering activity

Fabulous idea for children to order numbers. Write the numbers on lolly sticks and layout a long sausage of play dough or plasticine. Check out this link.

Peg the number

I saw this idea on a German site and thought it was brilliant aswell as very adaptable to other things.
Basically you have to put numbers on pegs (a small sticker should do it). Number the pegs from 1-10. The child has to match the correct number to the number of Jellybeans.
This could be adaptable in many different ways.
Matching phonemes
Matching colours
Matching number sentences to the correct answer
Times tables
It is such a simple idea but fabulous for challenge areas in classrooms and look at all the fine motor skills that are needed to actually peg onto the wheel.

The list is endless.

I have made one for cvc words and emotional literacy

I used pegs and wrote with permanent markers, afterall how cheap are pegs?

Zap the dinosaur (number bonds to 10)

Zap the dinosaur game
Children have a game board each and a set of counters. Child picks a number card and zaps the corresponding bond to 10 on his/her board. The first person to zap all their dinosaurs is the winner. I have included a set of number cards but am sure you could use the digit cards from school.

Zap that dinosaur (doubles game)

Very simple game where children throw a die and double the number. They then cover up one of the dinosaurs on their board. The first person to cover (zap) all the dinosaurs is the winner

Counting dinosaurs

These cards could be used for alsorts of games.

Snap - mix the cards and deal out.
Sorting the dinosaurs
Give the child a number and they have to count out that many dinosaurs.
Pairs games, deal a selection out and place face down, child has to find 2 that match.
Adding numbers together. 5 dinosaurs add 3 dinosaurs equals ?
Take a handful of dinosaurs and find the correct number.

Dinosaur double the number

Throw a die and use a counter to count that many squares, double the number you land on.

Dinosaur adding or subtracting game

Write your own rule in the starburst, eg add 1, subtract 1, add 2, subtract 2, double the number, number bonds to 10 etc.

Rainbow numberlines

Money recognition worksheets and games

Match the coins to the amount of money
Money bingo

Count the coins

Money spinner

Money board game

Money dice

All these sheets were made from this website http://www.mathworksheetwizard.com/kindergarten/money.html

SEN numeracy planning and resources

I thought I would share some of my planning which I use with SEN/EAL learners.

Here is the first weeks planning with hyperlinks to the resources. I run this over 3 days per week. I think it is important to use real money and not the plastic stuff.

Week 1

Money bingo up to 10p

Letters and Sounds captions for reading and writing (more)

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.

Jolly phonics songs on youtube

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