Category Archives: Jo Laurence

Which sound?: free creative teaching resource

Someone told me the other day that Japanese is learnt phonetically in such a way that children can quickly read fluently without understanding the words.

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Using nursery rhymes: free creative teaching resource

Because we all hear nursery rhymes throughout our lives they are a good starting point for beginning to read.

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Prediction skills – Find two: free creative teaching resource

Do you say what you see or see what you say?

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Free creative teaching resource – Noun word puzzle

This activity engages pupils with illustrations and written clues to find the nouns to fill in the word puzzle.

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