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Important update from TheSchoolRun

For the past 13 years, TheSchoolRun has been run by a small team of mums working from home, dedicated to providing quality educational resources to primary school parents. Unfortunately, rising supplier costs and falling revenue have made it impossible for us to continue operating, and we’ve had to make the difficult decision to close. The good news: We’ve arranged for another educational provider to take over many of our resources. These will be hosted on a new portal, where the content will be updated and expanded to support your child’s learning.

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Year 1 Reading worksheets

Free worksheets: Reading, KS1, Y1

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My first book review worksheet

My first book review

As your child grows more confident in their reading they will be asked to reflect on what they read and review it. Help them get used to reviewing books with our template – they can use words and pictures to share their views. Will they give the latest reading practice book five stars or one?
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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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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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Reading adjacent consonants: mp, nt, st and nk worksheet

Reading adjacent consonants: mp, nt, st and nk (Phase 4 phonics)

This worksheet concentrates on these adjacent consonants: mp nt st nk. Can you write the words next to the pictures, then think of as many rhymes as you can for each word?
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Polysyllabic words wordsearch

Polysyllabic words wordsearch (Phase 4 phonics)

This fun wordsearch will help you to look at all the different syllables in each word.
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Polysyllabic words jigsaw puzzle

Polysyllabic words jigsaw puzzle (Phase 4 phonics)

Can you fit these polysyllabic jigsaw puzzle pieces together to make words?
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Phonics Connect 4: sp, pl and st

Phonics Connect 4: sp, pl and st (Phase 4 phonics)

This game is a bit like Connect 4, but with words using the adjacent consonants sp pl st.
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Phase 5 phonics tricky words practice worksheet

Phase 5 phonics tricky words practice (Phase 5 phonics)

First read these tricky words then read the following paragraph. Can you highlight all the new tricky words and then answer the questions below?
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Phase 4 phonics tricky words practice worksheet

Phase 4 phonics tricky words practice (Phase 4 phonics)

Cut them out these tricky Phase 4 phonics words and ask your child to read them out. See which ones they do know straight away and separate the ones that they don’t know. Then think of a sentence with one or more of these words and ask your child to find the tricky word that you emphasised.
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Phase 4 phonics Connect 4 game

Phase 4 phonics Connect 4 (Phase 4 phonics)

This game is a bit like Connect 4, but with words. All the words in this game include the adjacent consonants nt and lt.
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Decoding graphemes: ‘ow’, ‘y’ and ‘i’ worksheet

Decoding graphemes: ‘ow’, ‘y’ and ‘i’ (Phase 5 phonics)

In these sentences there are examples of different pronunciations of the same grapheme. Using different-colour pencils, read the sentence and highlight the different ones.
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Yes or no? Reading ‘ear’ words worksheet

Yes or no? Reading ‘ear’ words (Phase 5 phonics)

Read these questions and underline any ‘ear’ words you can hear. Then answer the questions by colouring yes or no.
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Spelling the /or/ sound: ‘ore’ worksheet

Spelling the /or/ sound: ‘ore’ (Phase 5 phonics)

Can you add ‘ore’ to the end of these sounds in balloons? The read the word. If it is a real word, draw a balloon string to the girl’s hand; if it’s a nonsense word draw a string to the clown’s hand.
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Reading split digraph ‘e_e’ words worksheet

Reading split digraph 'e_e' words (Phase 5 phonics)

Can you spot the /ee/ sound, spelled e_e, in these words? Look carefully and colour in the letters e_e.
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Reading and drawing the /er/ sound worksheet

Reading and drawing the /er/ sound (Phase 5 phonics)

Read these /er/ words. Can you draw a picture for each one?
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First 100 high-frequency words

First 100 high-frequency words list

Children learn to read and spell high-frequency words, the most common words in English-language texts, throughout primary school. Download a list of the first 100 high-frequency words to use for at-home spelling practice and revision.
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Choose oa, oe or ow worksheet

Choose 'oa', 'oe' or 'ow' (Phase 5 phonics)

All these words have the /oa/ sound in them, but some are spelled with the digraph 'oa', others with 'oe' or 'ow' or 'o_e'. Can you cut out the words and stick them into the right columns in the table?
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Choose ai, ay or a_e worksheet

Choose 'ai', 'ay' or 'a_e' (Phase 5 phonics)

All of these words have the same /ai/ sound in them, but some are spelled with the digraph 'ai', others with 'ay' or the split digraph 'a_e'. Can you cut out the words and stick them into the right columns in the table?
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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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Y1 phonics screening check 2013 past paper

Year 1 Phonics screening check 2013

At the end of Year 1 children's reading and phonics skills are tested in the Y1 Phonics Screening Check. Look through the official past paper for 2013 to see what sort of words your child will be asked to read.
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Phonics screening check 2012 past paper

Year 1 Phonics screening check 2012

The Y1 Phonics screening check is used to test children's reading and phonics skills and what they've learnt in their first two years at school. Get an idea of what your child will be asked to do in the June test by looking through the official past paper for 2012.
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Y1 Phonics Screening practice checks

Year 1 Phonics Screening practice checks

Boost your child's confidence in the run-up to the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check with our mock checks, written by a KS1 teacher to mirror the official check format exactly. Packed with weird and wonderful aliens and "pseudo" nonsense words, just like the real test, they offer a great way to help your child practise reading sounds and blending them to read words.
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Reading unfamiliar words using phonics worksheet

Reading unfamiliar words using phonics

A KS1 worksheet of nonsense words, based on the National Curriculum and created by a phonics expert to get Year 1 children using their phonics skills to decode unfamiliar words.

These robots have such funny names! Can you read them?
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