Literacy

         

      <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> __**Basic Writing Conventions**__ __**Capital letters**__ **The Capital Letter Game**-[] Zed loves to make things in his shed. Give the words their capital letters to help Zed collect his tools. What has Zed made this time? 5 games.

__**Full Stops**__ **The Full Stop Game**-[] The sentences have lost all their full stops. Read the sentences then click and drag the snails to where the full stops should be. Uses high frequency words. 5 games.

__**Question Marks**__ **The Question Mark Game-**[] Zed loves to make things in his shed. Give the sentences their question marks to help Zed collect his tools. What has Zed made this time? 5 games

__**Making Sense**__ **Does it make sense?-**[] Two sets of five games using high frequency words. Help Zara's dream come true by clicking on the sentences that make sense. and help Wellington clean up the sea by clicking and dragging the words to create sentences that make sense

** Alphabet- ** [] A good demonstration tool to show how letters should be formed and the sounds they make. Each letter is illustrated with a picture which begins with the sound.

__**Short vowel sounds**__ **Jim's Crankophone**-[] An excellent teaching tool for distinguishing between the short vowel sounds in CVC words. The teacher's control panel allows you to choose which two vowels to compare.

**Word maker**-[] Use the arrow keys to create consonant-vowel-consonant words and see how many you can get. Also word play and word match options to choose from.

**Whirlyword machine**-[] This is a fruit machine that makes CVC words. There are three levels of difficulty. Great for helping children explore rhyming patterns.

__**Long vowel phonemes**__ **Old Uncle Tom-**[] Old Uncle Tom likes his socks, blanket, hay and a nice glass of water before going to bed. Help him get his bed time bits together by clicking and dragging the sounds to make new words. Long Vowel Phonemes (boot, feet, rain, boat, eat).

** Write a postcard- ** [] Excellent as a teaching tool to teach the different possible phonemes that sound the same e.g. ir/er/ue. Work through the activities with the children. Follow up with practice using the sandcastle quiz. ** Sandcastle quiz- ** h[|ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/sandcastle/index.shtml] Great for teaching children to differentiate between the possible phonemes when spelling a word e.g. air/are.ear. Initial consonant is given and the word is spoken, then choose the sandcastle with the correct phoneme. Good as a practice activity after you have done the postcard activity. __** Double Consonants **__ ** Wellington's double consonant game-h ** [|ttp://www.roythezebra.com/Pages/worksheet_games.html#consonants] Help Wellington clean up the sea by making words using ff, ss, bl, br, cl, cr, ck, ng. 5 games. __** Rhyming Words **__ ** Words that rhyme- ** [] 15 different rhyming word games. Help the bees bring the words that rhyme back to their nest. Watch the flower grow (bug top lip dash dot). Belinda loves collecting words that rhyme. Find the words in the fruit and bring them to her house (cat dad gap jam man). Ryan the rhino can't sleep. He's trying to think of words that rhyme! Find them in the stars (bell hill pet ten tin).

** Word wheels- ** [] Stop and start the word wheels that contain onset and rimes to make words that match the picture clue. __** Common verbs **__ ** Word link- ** [] Drag and drop words that are verbs of different tenses into a chart containing root verbs. ** Word Play- ** [] An amusing way to introduce children to verbs. Children can see words behave like their meanings. There are a total of 25 words. ** Compound words- ** [] Drag words together to create compound words. __** Singular and Plural **__ ** Lucy's singular or plural game- ** [] Lucy is still at the zoo! Read the words and find words within them. Make the new words by dragging the letters and then choose presents to make Lucy happy. 5 games __** High Frequency Words **__ ** Old Uncle Tom's High Frequency Word games- ** [] Old Uncle Tom likes his socks, blanket, hay and a nice glass of water before going to bed. Help him get his bed time bits together by clicking and dragging the words into the correct order. 4 different games; (Days, Months, Numbers and Colours) __** Alphabetical order **__ **Little Mo's Alphabetical order games**-[] Little Mo has found a word plant. Help her put the words into alphabetical order. Uses high frequency words. Five different games; a-g, h-n, o-z, a-z, a-z. ** Alphabetical order no.1- ** [] Drag simple words with picture clues into place in alphabetical order and check to see if you are correct. ** Alphabetical order no.2- ** [] Drag more difficult words into place in alphabetical order and check to see if you are correct. __** Class literacy games **__ ** Walk the plank- ** [] Guessing incorrect letters cause the boy to walk the plank in this version of hangman. The words are simple and question marks show how many letters they are made up of. ** Alien hangman- ** [] A fun version of hangman. Guess the word before the alien is formed. Some words are fairly difficult.