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Phonics In Nature: An idea for a woodland challenge

Rebecca Aburrow

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... be linked to phonics the children are learning that week or any phonics that need reinforcing. Form a letter in the muddy ground e.g. the letter ‘p’. If the letter is not clearly visible, the practitioner can show flash cards or create...

Invisible Man: A competitive way to teach lots of skills in phonics

Sarah Featherstone

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... and apply phonics strategies, they can use the rubber feature on the board to rub a limb or feature (eyes, nose, hair) off the other team's man. If they get it wrong, praise their reading attempts and ask them to remove one of their own team's...

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...

Runaround: level 1 (Phase 2 and Phase 3): An activity to develop listening skills and test the application of phonics strategies

Sarah Featherstone

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... card. You can use this game to see who is confident with phonics and who is relying on their friends to make a choice. Use this game in or after your phonics lesson as practice and application. Once children have learnt this first version...

Runaround: level 3 (Phase 5 Alternative spellings of di/trigraphs): An activity to assess listening skills and the application of phonics strategies regarding spelling

Sarah Featherstone

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... with that sound in the story at the end of the day. Make sure the children have opportunities to use this strategy outside of the phonics lesson in order to make it relevant and real....

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

Sarah Featherstone

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... the word d-o-g, I wonder?’ Give lots of praise to the children who are trying really hard, using phonics strategies and helping friends. Use every opportunity you can to model segmenting and blending, and make sure you revisit all the words...

Mail Muddle!: A sorting activity where children can work together to sort the sounds

Sarah Featherstone

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...Introduction Children love to post and sort! In this activity children work as a group to sort the letters, and justify their thinking.Focus Using and applying phonics and early reading skills. You can adapt this activity to give...

Catch That Sound!: A physically active quick-fire game to develop sight recognition.

Sarah Featherstone

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... and practising reading.Focus Adapt this game to practise reading letters, digraphs, trigraphs, high frequency or tricky words. Just change the sounds or words on the ball. This is a good warm up for a writing, or phonics session, or can form the basis...

Writers at work: Write captions for photographs

Dawn Roper

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... they see. (The captions don't necessarily need to be full sentences; key words work too.) Model being a writer and talking like a writer, using phonics, to explain what you are writing for the caption. Use the interactive whiteboard to show...

Making marks and recording thoughts: Use digital screen-casting to record children's writing development and explore the thinking behind their mark making

Pamela Algie

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... say.Ready for more? Repeat this activity over the year. This allows you see the progress in children's writing. The recording will show development in concept of print, phonics, letter formation and the thinking, narrative and communication...