Reading With Bingo

This is a fun activity that the kids absolutely love to play and it is so simple. Simply print off a template with however many sections you want. If you have access to a laminating machine, it helps to laminate them and use a whiteboard marker that can easily be rubbed off. If you have…

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Teaching Children to Write

Just as with reading, the most important thing to bare in mind when teaching writing to children is that at no point along the way, should a child experience any negative feelings. It should always be slightly challenging and it most definitely needs to be fun and enjoyable for them. At every stage. This is…

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Phonics Teaching Games : Musical Phonics

Musical Phonics A classroom favourite and great for a starter or main activity. The children all have whiteboards and pens set out at their tables ready to write. Music is played and whilst it is playing the children have to dance on the carpet / play area. As soon as the music stops the teacher…

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Phonics Teaching Games : Run to the Board

This activity is definitely suited to the outdoor area as it involves running. Its really very simple and just a different take on a typical classroom writing activity in phonics. It works well for tricky words as the teacher lets the children read and remember the word at one end of the playground and the children…

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