English - Reading - Phonics and spelling

Initial sounds: m, d and p

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Let's play eye spy! Look around you. Can you see anything that begins with these sounds? Draw pictures in the eyes of things you see beginning with each sound

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Initial sounds: h

Magnifying glass at the ready – it’s time to go on a hunt for ‘h’! Go around your house collecting things that begin with ‘h’. Once you’ve collected five things draw a picture of them in this hat. Ask your mum or dad to help you label them.

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Initial sounds: h and b

Jack and Eva are going on their summer holiday. They’ve drawn a picture list of everything they need to take with them but they’ve missed off the first letters on the words below. Can you use either an ‘h’ or a ‘b’ to complete the words?

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Initial sounds: g and k

Can you be a letter detective and spy the sounds ‘g’ and ‘k’ in this box? Colour the ‘g’s in red and the ‘k’s in blue. Then match the pictures to the sound that they begin with and colour the pictures in.

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Initial sounds: a and b

Circle the objects that Ella has seen that begin with ‘a’ and ‘b’.

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Find the missing sounds: o and n

This sound burglar has been stealing sounds from the words below. Can you see what sounds he has in his bag? Help these words get their sounds back by filling in the missing letters!

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CVC letter fans

A fun way to practise letter sounds! Cut out each letter, make a hole with a hole punch or scissors where the circle is and put some string through it. You need to make one fan for vowels and one for consonants. Once you have made the fans, ask your child to say each sound and think of a word with that sound in it.

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Spelling patterns: doubling a letter and adding -ed / -ing

With some three-letter verbs, if you need to add -ed or -ing, you need to double the last letter. This rule is followed whenever the verb has a short vowel followed by a consonant. Read this passage aloud, then write down each coloured word. Check the words and then learn to spell any you get wrong.

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Verb tenses: adding -ing

The basic form of a verb is the INFINITIVE. To show that something is still happening in the present, we use the PRESENT PARTICIPLE, which we make by adding -ing to the verb. If a verb ends with a silent ‘e’ which isn’t pronounced it needs to be dropped before you add -ing to make the present participle. Cover over the table. Can you write the correct words ending -ing in the spaces below?

Spelling patterns: words ending in vowels

It is very common for English words to end in e. It is more unusual for words to end in a, i, o and u. This table shows words ending in these four vowels. How fast can you think of more? Time yourself! Many of these words are foreign, but are now used as part of the English language. Which countries did they come from?

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English - Reading - Phonics and spelling

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Initial sounds: m, d and p

Initial sounds: h

Initial sounds: h and b

Initial sounds: g and k

Initial sounds: a and b

Find the missing sounds: o and n

CVC letter fans

Spelling patterns: doubling a letter and adding -ed / -ing

Verb tenses: adding -ing

Spelling patterns: words ending in vowels

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