Friday, 31 October 2008

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


Thursday, 30 October 2008

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

Wednesday, 29 October 2008

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.

Halloween acrostic poetry - ghost


Halloween acrostic poetry

A pumpkin acrostic writing frame.