English Teaching Resources for Foundation Year
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Word Study List - CCVC Words
Introduce and explore words containing the consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant pattern with this extensive list of CCVC words.
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Spring Writing Prompts for Beginning Writers
Use the season of spring to inspire writing in your early years classroom.
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CVC Word Chain Task Cards
Manipulate the individual phonemes in CVC words to create new ones with this set of differentiated task cards.
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Onset and Rime Dominoes
Form words by blending onsets and their rimes with this set of 28 dominoes.
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Valentines Day Craft for Kids - Cupcake Valentine
Create a handmade Valentine’s Day cupcake craft with a cupcake template.
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How Many Phonemes? Sorting Activity
Practise identifying the discrete sounds in words with this hands-on sorting activity.
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CVC Word Work Mat
Practise segmenting and blending simple words with this CVC word building mat.
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CVC Word Dominoes
Practise decoding CVC words with this set of 30 dominoes.
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Building Sundaes - CVC Word Mats
Segment CVC words with this set of 14 word mats.
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Onset and Rime Peg Cards
Form words by blending onsets and rimes using these hands-on peg cards.
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Phoneme Segmentation Task Cards - CVC Words
Segment initial, middle and end sounds with this set of 20 CVC word task cards.
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Onset and Rime Roll-a-Word Game
Build real and nonsense words by blending onsets and rimes with this hands-on literacy game.
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Onset and Rime - Interactive Peg Cards
Form words by blending onsets and rimes using this interactive Google Slides activity.
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Onset and Rime Word Building - Google Slides Interactive Activity
Form words by blending onsets and their rimes with a Google Slides interactive activity.
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Google Slides Interactive - Features of Print
Use a Google Slides interactive activity to aid beginning readers in recognising print features and concepts of print.
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100 Alphabet Letters
Practise counting to 100 by 1’s with upper and lowercase alphabet cards and blank hundreds board.
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Syllable Count Board Game
Segment and count up to 4 syllables with this game board and set of 33 picture cards.
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Foundation Literacy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
31 Literacy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Chook, Chook, Chook, Chook - Number Rhyme and Worksheet
A 1 - 10 number rhyme and accompanying worksheet.
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Community Helpers: Fire Fighter – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an article from the Foundation magazine (Issue 3).
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Classsroom Spinner Template - CVC Words
Classroom spinner template focusing on CVC words.
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NAIDOC 2021 – Heal Country! - Word Search (Early Years)
A puzzle related to key concepts of the NAIDOC theme.
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NAIDOC 2021 – Heal Country! - Worksheet (Early Years)
A worksheet for students to reflect on the NAIDOC theme as it relates to them.
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NAIDOC 2021 – Heal Country! Student information sheet
A student information sheet about the NAIDOC 2021 theme: Heal Country!
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Non-Contact Morning Greetings Posters
Non-contact greetings that students can do with their teachers and peers.
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Foundation Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 2
A 76-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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Community Helpers: Nurse – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an article from the Foundation magazine (Issue 2).
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Fairy Tale Setting and Book Characters Classroom Display
Teach fairy tales and narrative structure with a printable fairy tale setting poster and book characters for a classroom display.
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Food-Themed Syllable Puzzle
A fun food-themed phonics activity for lower years that helps to develop syllable recognition.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 3
A sorting activity using word families.
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'Fly into a New Year' Bookmark
A bookmark to give your students at the start of the new year.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 2
A word family sorting activity.