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High frequency words are best learned by repetition. These high frequency word puzzles are easy to make and are a fun way to learn the words.

Learn how to spell colour names and practise fine motor skills at the same time with this fun, hands-on literacy activity.

Experimenting with letters and sounds is a fun way to practise phonics and spelling. This alphabet petal word-making activity encourages children to be creative and use their literacy skills.  

Learning Spring vocabulary can be hands-on using wooden or plastic letters to build new words using phonics skills. 

Green eggs are a great inspiration for this spelling challenge. Can you fix these broken eggs to make popular words from Green Eggs and Ham?

Wacky Wednesday by Dr Seuss is great fun for children - but how many real and nonsense words can they make from the letters in Wednesday?

The first step to learning digraphs is being able to identify them in common words. This simple sorting activity is a fun way to introduce digraph sounds.

This hands-on letter and colour sorting game is easy to prepare and is a fun way to practice letter and colour recognition skills.

Some words are tricky to spell because they don’t follow phonics rules or have silent letters. It is important to come up with creative strategies to memorise such words. It can really improve spelling results.

Looking for ways to make spelling easier for kids? Chunking or segmenting is a useful spelling strategy which will help them remember how to spell longer words.

Boost reading and spelling skills with CVC word family towers. Use building blocks to make towers of rhyming words and learn to identify common word families.

Scrabble is great fun but for younger children, it is better to start with a simplified version. This game is great for blending and practising the spelling of CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. 

Use a 'Magic e’ spelling wheel to show how this spelling magic works! A silent ‘e’ at the end of words makes the vowel say its own name, changing the vowel sound from short to long.

In the early years it is important to introduce children to both uppercase and lowercase letters. This simple matching game will help children to recognise the shapes of the uppercase and lowercase letters.