LISTENING SKILLS:
Practise matching and identifying environmental sounds, vocal utterances, musical instruments, music styles, nursery rhymes, simple instructions, sequencing sounds, counting syllables, rhyming and alliteration.
INITIAL SOUNDS:
Covers the sounds of the 26 letters, both individually spoken and spoken at the beginning of words. There is one activity for each letter, with five extra activities for each of the long vowel sounds. A choice of round up activities includes VC and CVC blending. No grapheme recognition is required, although graphemes are introduced passively.
INITIAL LETTERS:
This useful activity set looks at the matching and recognition of written letters A-Z. There is one activity for each letter as well as a selection of round-up activities.
INITIAL BLENDS: SOUNDS:
This activity set covers the sounds of the 26 most common initial consonant blends. One activity for each of ch, sh, th, qu and tr. A further 13 activities introduce more blends in pairs (eg: for “bl” and “cl” together). Also includes fun round-up activities. Grapheme recognition is not required, although graphemes are introduced passively.
INITIAL BLENDS: LETTERS:
Covers matching and recognition of written blends. Common blends are covered, individually and in pairs, as well as several motivating round-up activities.
TRICKY HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS:
Multiple choice activities to practice recognition of tricky high frequency words which are difficult to learn to read and spell. Tricky High Frequency Words has over 600 pages of activities.
ALPHABET:
Over 40 activities focus on learning the names of the 26 letters (rather than their phonic sounds) and on dictionary skills. Alphabet includes distinguishing letters from other symbols through to sorting whole words alphabetically. Alphabet also letter reversals, matching upper and lowercase and the British Sign Language (BSL) alphabet.
EVERYDAY WORDS:
Provides practice in recognising, hearing, matching, reading and spelling everyday words for colour, number, days’ of the week, months and seasons. Everyday Words has over 550 individual pages of activities.
