Easter Greeting Card

To celebrate the upcoming Easter holiday we have created an Easter greeting card for you, that is both easy to make, but more importantly… SUPER CUTE!

Instructions:

  • Download and print the Easter Greeting Card here.
  • Photocopy one per student.
  • Have the students colour in their card, encouraging them to write their favourite graphemes on the inside with the message.
  • Cut out the card with a pair of scissors, following the dotted line border.

LOOKING FOR MORE FUN THIS EASTER?:

You can download our ‘Easter Hunt’ board game here. Learn the rules and how to play with our easy to follow instructions.

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Mother’s Day Card 2020

In the spirit of love for all our mums out there, we’re handing out a free resource: a sweet card for your students to make and take home!

Instructions:

  • Print the Mother’s Day Card here.
  • Photocopy one per student.
  • Have the students colour in their card, encouraging them to write their favourite graphemes on the inside with the message.

QUICK NOTE: If you would like to use a different card, check out our Mother’s Day Card from a previous year’s free resource collection. You can find it here.

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Easter Hunt Board Game

Happy Easter! We’ve updated this classic game with a phonics twist! It works well as a one on one, or phonics rotation activity.

Set up

  • Download and print the Easter Hunt board game and tokens here.
  • You can use the board with the printed i/ie/i_e/igh/y long vowel graphemes, OR you can choose your own selection of graphemes to write in the eggs on the board.
  • Cut out the player tokens on the third page.
  • Laminate your board game and tokens if you wish to use it as a repeated activity.

How to play

  • Divide the class into pairs or small groups.
  • Each child must put his or her token on the space that says ‘Start’.
  • Take it in turns to roll the dice.
  • Move the token the number of spaces shown on the dice, moving right of the ‘Start’ square.
  • If the child lands on an Easter egg, the child must read the grapheme and correctly pronounce the phoneme featured on the egg out loud, to remain in that place.
  • If the child is able to think of a word that uses the grapheme, they can advance forward by following the bunny feet that are travelling up.
  • If they cannot read the grapheme, they must follow the bunny feet that are travelling down.
  • The child who reaches the ‘finish’ square first, wins.

NOTE:This resource can be used for Kindergarten,Year 1 and Year 2. You can make the game as hard or as easy as you like, depending on the phonemes you choose to include.

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Christmas Resource: Gingerbread Bunting!

Merry Christmas! The most exciting holiday is approaching fast. Celebrate by decorating your classroom with our free bunting.

Instructions:

  • Print the Gingerbread Bunting Template
  • Cut out and laminate the shapes
  • Punch two holes at the top of each shape (one on each side)
  • Cut a piece of string long enough to be hung from one end of your classroom to the other, and thread the bunting onto the string at even intervals, adhering them with a piece of sticky tape

NOTE: Some teachers string it across the top of their Interactive Whiteboards or display boards.

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Phoneme Pegosaurus Activity!

This simple activity gets children using their fingers (awesome for fine motor skills) to blend phonemes to spell words!

Set Up:

  • Download and print the Pegosaurus Template here.
  • Use a marker pen to write the target graphemes on your pegs, remembering to make a few copies of each grapheme so that children have lots of word options.
  • You will also need to print our word list from the Synthetic Phonics Toolkit. You can download the word list for Series 1, Unit 1 here.

Instructions:

  • Choose a word from the word list.
  • Sound out each phoneme in the word and ask the child to find the pegs with the correct graphemes to represent each phoneme.
  • As you go, peg the graphemes onto the dinosaur in the correct order, to spell the word.

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Easter Egg Colouring In

To celebrate, we have an Easter colouring in sheet for you. From everyone here at Get Reading Right, we hope you have a happy Easter and enjoy the upcoming break!

Instructions:

Download and print the free resource here.

QUICK NOTE: Don’t forget to also check out some of our past Easter resources as well!

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Valentine’s Day Card

Phonics activities like this card, provide the perfect opportunity for a more subtle reminder. While those little hands are colouring, you are reinforcing the phonemes that the children have already started to learn.

Instructions:

  • Print the Valentine’s Day Card here.
  • Photocopy one per student.
  • Have the students colour in their card, encouraging them to write their favourite graphemes on the inside with the message.

QUICK NOTE: Don’t forget to also check out our Valentine’s Day Phoneme Bunting from a previous year’s free resource collection. You can find it here.

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Grapheme Match Cards!

This activity is designed to be used in pairs or groups. The instructions below are written for one pair. You will need to increase the amount of copies depending on how many pairs you have.

Set Up:

  • Download and print the Grapheme Match Cards.
  • Cut out each card – you should have 36 cards.
  • Laminate your cards if you wish to use it as a repeated activity.

Instructions:

  • Divide the class into pairs or small groups.
  • Give each pair a stack of cards and a bucket of laundry pegs.
  • Place the cards in a pile on the floor between the pair.
  • Taking turns, each child must recognise the picture on the card e.g. “mop”, then spell the word, filling in the blank with one of the grapheme options on the right side of the card.
  • Have the child clip a peg on the correct grapheme.
  • Continue this until the pile is finished.
  • This is about teamwork as much as it is phonics, so make sure that the pair are talking to one another and working to find the answer together

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Father’s Day Card

Celebrate Father’s Day with our adorable phonics Father’s Day card, allowing your students to show off their camera word skills.

Instructions:

  • Download and print the Father’s Day Card Template
  • Photocopy back to back (one card per child) and hand out
  • Write a list of desired camera words on the whiteboard
  • Instruct the students to read each of the camera words on the whiteboard, choosing his or her favourites to write on the necktie on the inside of the card
  • Have the students colour in the card
  • Then instruct them to carefully cut around the outside of the card and fold the card in half along the centre line

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