Many of us often find that we have lots of exciting strategies to teach other skills in phonics, but when it comes to teaching tricky words it’s just a case of getting out the flashcards again, and hope the children remember them. How else can you teach tricky words more excitingly? Using flashcards indeed is …
Struggling to find alliteration activities? You’ve come to the right place; and can I just say that these games are spectacularly superb and seriously special! Alliteration is something that children can begin to understand through repetition of enjoyable activities, many of which can just be thrown into your daily routine. How do you teach alliteration? …
I have to say that if I could select just one resource to take from my classroom, it would undoubtedly be claves, or ‘rhythm sticks’ as we like to call them. Rhythm sticks are simply long pieces of broomstick-like wood, cut into about 8-inch sections and the ends sanded down. You can use claves, but the …