There has been a great deal of interest in the Titanic during the last few weeks, as the 14/15th April 2012 approaches, exactly one hundred years after the disaster. The Titanic was built by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line as the largest passenger ship in the World, and was thought to be [...]

Great news this week as we launch more of our English worksheets for the lower primary age range. Firstly, there are a set of word lists which can be used to help prepare children for the words they will encounter on the Letters and Sounds pages already published. There are nine or ten words in [...]

We have begun to extend the range of superb English worksheets to cover some of the sounds used in reading and spelling for the lower primary age range. These sounds are represented by more than one letter and include ‘ai’, ‘ee’, ‘oa’, ‘oo’ and many others, as well as ‘ea’ (long ‘e’ sound in words [...]

We have now published a great series of English worksheets to help with learning some of the basic graphemes (written representations of phonemes or sounds), covering up to Stage 5 of the ‘Letters and Sounds’ programme. The sounds covered include: ‘sh’, ‘ch’, ‘th’, ‘ng’, ‘ai’, ‘ee’, ‘igh’ ‘oa’ and ‘oo’ Using the worksheet is just [...]

There is some evidence from psychology studies that we use the shapes of words to recognise them. The shape of a word is made up of the ascending (tall letters), descending (letters that go under the line) and neutral (short) letters. This could be one of the reasons we find reading a sentence made up [...]

High Frequency words We have just published a series of pages on High Frequency Words, including checklists and word cards which can be found in our English, Early Years Resources section of the site. These words are recommended in the Letters and Sounds phonic teaching programme for Phases 2, 3, 4 and 5. They are [...]