Phonic Find Game
We have done a similar phonic find game before. Before I would give them a letter and they would have a minute to find as many things beginning with this letter and bring them back to me.
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Kris Kross Puzzles for Children
When I was little my Nana used to spend hours doing puzzle books. I was always fascinated by the puzzles she did. Some of them I still understand, but hands down my favourite ones were the Kris kross puzzles. S...
Homemade Boggle Game
I am pretty sure that all of you have heard of the game Boggle. If not, where have you been? This game has been around since the 1970s. Randomly I met someone over the weekend who knows the person who invent...
Keyword List: Other Ways to Say …
I will be posting some English activities that were suggested to us by a dsylexia specialist over the next few months. At the beginning of September EC and YC were both assessed for dyslexia. We already knew E...
Sight Word Flip Book
Well the new school year is underway, and the homework is already starting to pile up. As well as all the normal things that YC and EC are sent home with, they will also have to work on their high frequency sig...
Plastic Egg Spelling Activity
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Over the years I have used any remaining plastic eggs that we have in some sort activity. I have d...
CVC Word Building Activity
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I find that children love to make up new words. Therefore I decided to put that to ...
Sand Tray Writing
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In the past we have used salt trays for writing in, but I find that it can dry out your hands...
Word Boxes: To Help Learn Spellings
At the beginning of last school year we had a gentleman come over to help EC with his reading and spelling. He was absolutely brilliant and gave us some techniques to use with EC to help him learn his spellings...
Making Tape Letters
Learning how to form letters properly takes a long time and needs lots of practice. To break things up a bit, I use a variety of different techniques. Ones that generally uses more than one senses i.e. salt wr...
