This colourful, fun sorting activity is a great game for pre-readers. Your students will sort cards into Letters, Words, Numbers and Pictures. After sorting, ask questions to check understanding, like “what makes this a word?” or use the letter cards to link with the phonics you are working on in class. There are even some blank words you can customise for your classroom.
Recognise and name all upper- and lower-case letters (graphs) and know the most common sound that each letter represents
Recognise and name all upper and lower case letters (graphemes) and know the most common sound that each letter represents
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
Uses single-letter grapheme–phoneme correspondences and common digraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Recognise all upper- and lower-case letters and the most common sound that each letter represents