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Square words wordsearch

Square words wordsearch

Can you find all these Goldilocks-themed words in the wordsearch?
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Mini word Sudoku

Mini word Sudoku 4 x 4

Put the letters from the word EASY in the squares so that each column, row, and mini-grid contains all the letters that make up the word.
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Rhyming words: creatures word puzzle

Rhyming words: creatures word puzzle

Practise your rhyming and spelling skills by thinking of names of animals that rhyme with each of these words. There could be more than one answer... how many can you identify?
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Understanding instructions

Understanding instructions

This activity forms part of the English curriculum for speaking and listening. It will develop an understanding of the importance of giving instructions and listening carefully to instructions. The activity can be adapted for all ages and should be done with a parent or carer.
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Writing a poem worksheet

Writing a poem

This worksheet encourages children to recognise rhyming words and then complete a poem using the word list given.
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Write /oa/ /oo/ /ee/ /ea/ and /igh/ sounds

Write /oa/ /oo/ /ee/ /ea/ and /igh/ sounds (Phase 5 phonics)

Choo choo! All aboard the phonics train! Check how much your child has learned with this revision worksheet for Year 1. I wonder how many words they can think of?
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Engaging With English cover

Engaging With English

Created by an early years education expert, the Engaging with English pack will provide you with lively and original ideas to help bring four popular children’s books vividly to life. Whether your child is in the EYFS or KS1 these activities are the perfect starting point for turning book-shy children into bookworms.
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Writing descriptive sentences worksheet

Writing descriptive sentences

This worksheet encourages children to improve sentences by adding descriptive words.
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Reading the /igh/ sound worksheet

Reading the /igh/ sound

Does the igh sound make you sigh in the night? This worksheet will help you see the light! Practice with all your might and you will soon be soaring high!
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Breaking words into syllables worksheet

Breaking words into syllables

Use this worksheet to encourage your child to read words aloud and then break them into syllables.
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Writing sentences in order worksheet

Writing sentences in order

This worksheet gives sentences that can be cut up and re-ordered to help children with structuring text.
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Reading the /ee/ sound

Reading the /ee/ sound (Phase 5 phonics)

This activity will enable your child to recognise the /ea/ sound, which can be represented by a number of different graphemes, and practise reading and writing it.
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Comparative sentences worksheet

Comparative sentences

Use this worksheet to encourage your child to use comparative words ending in 'er' to complete the given sentences.
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Blending sounds worksheet

Blending sounds

Use this worksheet to help your child sound out and identify the phonemes in various words.
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Find the rhyming words

Find the rhyming words

Can you find all the words that rhyme with 'right'? An excellent activity to help your child practise listening carefully to see if a word rhymes.
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Counting syllables worksheet

Counting syllables

Use this worksheet to encourage your child to clap out syllables in words and then write down how many they think there are.
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Match present and past tense worksheet

Match present and past tense

This worksheet gives jumbled-up verbs in the present and past tense. Children need to match each present tense verb to its past tense form.
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Choose ee or ea worksheet

Choose 'ee' or 'ea' (Phase 5 phonics)

Sometimes the same sound can be written in different ways. This sheet enables children to choose when to use the grapheme 'ee' and when to use the grapheme 'ea' to represent the sound /ee/, as part of a colouring activity
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Find the phoneme worksheet

Find the phoneme (Phase 5 phonics)

A Phase 5 phonics worksheet to help children understand how to use the correct phoneme / grapheme.
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Tricky words memory game activity

Tricky words memory game

Use this memory game to help your child to remember the spellings of some tricky high frequency words.
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Designing a poster worksheet

Designing a poster

This writing worksheet will help your child to understand that information can be shared in different ways by designing a poster for a party.
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First reading comprehension worksheets

First reading comprehension

Use this teacher-created reading comprehension activity to help your child with reading aloud and answering questions on a text.
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Perfect Punctuation Workbook

Perfect Punctuation Workbook

Full stops, commas, semi colons, apostrophes… Whatever aspect of punctuation your child is grappling with, we’ve come up with a bumper pack of 60 activities to help them practise, as well as a parent's refresher guide to each punctuation mark and how it's used.
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