How to Sparkle at Phonics

by Irene Yates

Published 20 March 2011
How to Sparkle at Phonics provides 40 photocopiable worksheets, riddles, puzzles to help Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 (KS1) children to learn letter sounds and use that knowledge to build words. The sheets compliment other phonics schemes and provide an enjoyable way of developing and assessing children's phonemic awareness.

How to Sparkle at Alphabet Skills is ideal for teaching children how to form letters correctly. The 40 photocopiable worksheets are designed to teach Foundation and Key Stage 1 (KS1) children how to recognize capital and lower case letters and to extend their knowledge of those letters into sequencing them.

How to Sparkle at Grammar and Punctuation contains 40 photocopiable worksheets for Key Stage 1 (KS1) which introduce, reinforce and consolidate concepts of punctuation, parts of speech, sequencing and sentence construction.

How to Sparkle at Prediction Skills contains 40 photocopiable worksheets to help Key Stage 1 (KS1) children to develop word recognition and text-prediction skills. They are designed to teach children to predict and anticipate which words come next, through their awareness of context and syntax, and to build up a basic sight vocabulary of high frequency words.

How to Sparkle at Writing Stories and Poems will help early and beginning writers at Key Stage 1 (KS1) to master some of the skills of composition and writing conventions. All of the activities stimulate creative writing, in the form of stories or poetry. They are designed to give children lots of ideas and to help them plan and develop those ideas.