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Runaround: level 2 (Phase 4 consonant blends): An activity to assess listening skills and the application of phonics strategies

Sarah Featherstone

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...Introduction This is a simple highly versatile activity that gets the children moving and really listening. Characteristically, children will hear the initial and final sound more clearly than the medial sounds. This game teaches...

Where's my Partner?: A matching game to develop blending and segmenting

Sarah Featherstone

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...Introduction This is a fast paced game that gives lots of opportunities for decoding cvc words. It can be used with letters from any phase and adapted to add further challenge as the children's reading skills develop.Focus Segmenting...

Kim's game: phase 1, aspect 2: Careful listening and identifying sounds

Sarah Featherstone

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...Focus To develop children's awareness of the sounds made by various instruments and objects.What you need A range of percussion instruments Thick paper or card cut into a circle shape to place instruments on A cloth to cover...

Beat the buzzer: Quick fire testing of sight-reading high frequency words from Phase 2 to Phase 6

Sarah Featherstone

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...Introduction Children learn new vocabulary by repetition because it activates their memory. This game promotes this skill and gives you a method to measure individual children's progress.Focus Sight-reading of high frequency wordsWhat you...

Letter Quest: Practising phoneme recognition and grapheme phoneme correspondence

Sarah Featherstone

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...Introduction This activity uses the rest of the school to provide opportunities to assess how well children are making the correspondence between the phonemes you have taught and their corresponding grapheme in the context of words.Focus...

Feel It! (Body Rhymes): An idea for junk music

Simon MacDonald

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...What you need No special equipmentWhat you do Begin with a circle. Make sure the children know how to play this game safely, not hurting themselves or others by over-enthusiastic actions. Repeat Vowel Yowl, but this time, encourage...

Rock, Paper, Scissors – With Legs!: An idea for a team game

Simon MacDonald

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...Group size You need at least ten children for this activityWhat you need None neededHow to play Split the children into two teams. The teams stand facing each other and, after a count of three, have the option of choosing from three...

Balloon Pop!: An idea for a team game

Simon MacDonald

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...Group size 5+ players per teamWhat you need Chalk to draw team lines, or any other means to show the two sides Two large baskets or dustbin liners Lots of inflated balloonsHow to play It is important to make sure that all participants...

Felt Tip Cars: An idea for mark-making

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

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...Introduction These activities recognise how our children are inspired and motivated to learn, and to then use this information to create exciting and purposeful opportunities for them to mark make and eventually write. They are activities...

Rainbow Cups: An idea for healthy eating

Amicia Boden

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...What are they learning? A fun familiarisation activity to develop confidence with handling unfamiliar fruits. The focus is on exploration, in order to increase the appeal of different types of fruit. Key Skills: Engaging with food through...