Debbie's Resource Cupboard

Phonics sites

There are some great sites out there to find out more about phonics.
Any TA who is teaching children to read needs to make sure they know exactly how to teach phonics systematically.

This link is a fantastic alphabetic code overview and everyone should have one if they are teaching phonics. Print it out and give it to all the staff in school.
http://www.syntheticphonics.com/DH%20Alph%20Code%20overview%20with%20teaching%20points%20-%20A4x7.pdf

http://www.rrf.org.uk/
The reading reform foundation, well worth a look

http://www.syntheticphonics.com/
Debbie Hepplewhite's excellent site

http://www.jollylearning.co.uk/
Jolly phonics

http://www.dyslexics.org.uk/
Lots of information on learning to read

http://www.societyforqualityeducation.org/stairway.html
A fantastic site with lots of materials for teaching children to read, best for one to one support and older children

http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/local/clld/las.html
Letters and Sounds

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is on the 7th February 2008 and it is the Year of the Rat.
Here are some links to resources kindly posted from the members of the forum

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/china/index.htm
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/hongBow_v4.html
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/festivals/chinese.htm
http://www.tes.co.uk/Resources/Resource.aspx?resourceId=9805 You will need to join the TES forum to enable you to download the resources but its well worth doing

Chinese dragon to make out of egg boxes
http://familycrafts.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/dragon.html

Poetry posters and worksheets

This is a worksheet I used when working with some bright year ones. They wrote some lovely Rain poems.

Also love this poem by Michael Rosen

Chocolate cake

Useful tools for teaching assistants and teachers

Great for finding groups of words
http://www.morewords.com/

Fantastic site for making alsorts of resources
http://www.senteacher.org/Print/

Phonic word list generator
http://random.brendenisteaching.com/wordlist/

Loop card generator
http://random.brendenisteaching.com/myloops/

Make your own Educational worksheets
http://www.educationalpress.org/index.asp

Make your own handwriting sheets
http://66.113.195.73/

Puzzle maker
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/

Make your own games - fantastic site with lots of ideas for games
http://www.kellyskindergarten.com/Games/GamestoMake/games_to_make.htm

Sudoko generator
http://random.brendenisteaching.com/sudoku/

A huge collection of links to help anyone in education
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/teachertools2.htm#form

Fun activities

Golden time
A lovely site which gives lots of ideas for Golden time
http://www.golden-time.co.uk/activities.html

Playground games
http://www.playgroundfun.org.uk/default.aspx

Timefillers
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/more/timefiller/contents.htm

Word game

Choose the target sound and children have to find words beginning with that sound and write them in the treasure box.

I use these simple captions with children who are just starting to read cvc words. It gives them just a little bit more to decode. Laminate and cut up.

This can be used for children of all ages. You will need a pack of word cards. It can be as simple as cvc words for infants or spellings for year sixes. Children throw a die and move that number of spaces with a counter. They or the adult then picks a card and they have to read it, spell it or use the word in a sentence.