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Point to a dinosaur and make its sound!
Phase 1 Phonics/Letters & Sounds Mat. Have great fun making up sounds for each dinosaur!
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Key Principles for Phase 1 Phonics:
Play-Based Learning: Activities should be engaging, hands-on, and often delivered through play.
Language-Rich Environment: Foster an environment where children are exposed to and encouraged to use rich language.
Oral Blending and Segmenting: A crucial focus, preparing children for blending sounds to read and segmenting words to spell.
Differentiation: Activities should be adaptable to meet the needs of all learners, from those with limited language exposure to those ready for early sound discrimination.
Assessment for Learning: Continuously observe and assess children's progress to inform next steps.
Overview of Phase 1 Aspects:
Phase 1 is divided into seven aspects, each building on the previous one to strengthen a child's phonological awareness.
General Sound Discrimination – Environmental Sounds
General Sound Discrimination – Instrumental Sounds
General Sound Discrimination – Body Percussion
Rhythm and Rhyme
Alliteration
Voice Sounds
Oral Blending and Segmenting
“While there is considerable overlap between these aspects, the overarching aim is for children to experience regular, planned opportunities to listen carefully and talk extensively about what they hear, see and do. The boundaries between each strand are flexible and not fixed: practitioners should plan to integrate the activities according to the developing abilities and interests of the children in the setting. Each aspect is divided into three strands.
Tuning into sounds (auditory discrimination)
Listening and remembering sounds (auditory memory and sequencing)
Talking about sounds (developing vocabulary and language comprehension).
Activities within the seven aspects are designed to help children:
listen attentively;
enlarge their vocabulary;
speak confidently to adults and other children;
discriminate phonemes;
reproduce audibly the phonemes they hear, in order, all through the word;
use sound-talk to segment words into phonemes.
The ways in which practitioners and teachers interact and talk with children are critical to developing children’s speaking and listening. This needs to be kept in mind throughout all phase one activities.”
Some text drawn from ‘Letters and Sounds: Principles and Practice of High Quality Phonics’
Key ‘Phase 1 Phonics’ Resources
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Thirty illustrated invitations for playful listening and spoken-language exploration. Created primarily for Preschool provision, with flexible support for individual children and continued use in Reception. Share a card with an adult, use real objects where helpful and follow the child’s ideas.
Using the cards
Offer one or two cards beside relevant provision. Read the invitation aloud and model a playful example. Wonder questions are optional; use the vocabulary naturally during play. Children do not need to read, complete every activity or give a spoken answer. Return to familiar favourites and stop while the experience is enjoyable.
The ten focus areas help you choose a card. They are not a teaching sequence or an assessment checklist. Environmental listening, music and sound memory support wider communication; phonological awareness focuses on sounds within spoken language. This pack brings these related experiences together.
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Twelve illustrated invitations, sixteen picture-only cards and four sorting mats for exploring the parts we hear in spoken words. Use them in Preschool provision with an adult, and revisit them in Reception as helpful. Children can clap names, tap picture words, move, compare and sort. No reading is required.
What children are listening for
A syllable is a part or beat we hear within a spoken word: cat has one, rabbit has two and banana has three. Here, “beat” means a syllable in a spoken word, rather than the steady beat of music. Count the spoken parts, not letters, individual speech sounds or the size of the pictured object.
Share one invitation at a time
Read the card aloud and name the pictures together. Say the whole word naturally first, then repeat it with a gentle clap or tap for each syllable. Say the whole word again. For banana, model ba–na–na with three taps. Keep the word recognisable; avoid adding extra vowel sounds or stretching it into individual phonemes. Wonder questions are optional invitations to talk.
Use the pictures and mats
Begin with two mats and a small selection of pictures, for example cat, dog, rabbit and apple with the 1 and 2 mats. Say each name, tap its parts and choose a mat together. Add the 3 and 4 mats when useful. Touch one printed dot for each syllable, then place the whole picture card in the open space below. Each mat can hold four cards; the dots count syllables in one word, not pictures on the mat.
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Invite children to listen to a short sequence and make the sounds back in the same order. Use the illustrated cards in Music and Sound provision, small groups or a quiet shared game. Begin with a single familiar sound and choose longer sequences when the child wants to try.
Introduce the six pictures
Explore each action and instrument together using the picture key on page 2. Agree what each picture means before playing. Here, a sound means one action or sound event, not a phoneme or a syllable. A bell ring or shaker movement may contain several tiny noises but counts as one turn in the sequence.
Play one short sequence
1. Get ready together. Offer a choice of sounds and wait until the child is ready. They do not need to sit still or make eye contact.
2. Make the sounds from left to right, once for each picture. Use a steady, unhurried pace with a clear space between actions. Let a bell fade before the next sound. Repeated pictures mean separate actions: clap, pause, clap.
3. Finish the whole sequence, pause, then invite the child to copy. Say “Your turn” after playing, rather than naming the sounds while you make them. Replay whenever helpful.
4. Swap roles. The child can choose a card or arrange loose pictures for you to copy. Enjoy their ideas and return to a shorter sequence whenever needed.
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Twelve illustrated invitations for exploring the speech sounds in familiar object names during Preschool and Reception play. Children choose something, name it and try saying its individual sounds. An adult reads the invitation and supports the conversation; children do not need to read or write.
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Twelve illustrated action prompts for playful oral blending in Preschool, with opportunities to revisit in Reception. An adult says an action in separate speech sounds; children blend the sounds into a word and respond through movement, a picture choice or an agreed alternative. No reading is needed.
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Eighteen illustrated picture cards, six three-picture choice boards and eighteen separate adult prompt cards. Use familiar spoken words in short, playful exchanges. Children listen and choose a picture; the adult supplies the individual sounds.
Adult guidance supplied.
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The aim of this activity is for children to listen carefully and identify sounds they are hearing.
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The aim of this activity is for the children to hear the distinct difference between loud and quiet.
Show the Loud and Quiet cards to the children. Explain that when the ‘Loud’ card is raised, they can make lots of loud noises. When the ‘Quiet’ card is raised, they must be completely quiet.
Using a sand timer, start with 20 seconds of ‘Quiet’ followed by 5 seconds of ‘Loud’, then 20 seconds of ‘Quiet’ again.
Repeat or vary as needed.
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Use these eye catching and engaging Phase 1 sounds posters to encourage your children to make pre-reading sounds. 16 cards to this pack. See also the colouring sheet pack to aid children's independent enjoyment and consolidation of sounds.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Encourage your children to begin to make Phase 1 sounds using these fun and engaging colouring sheets. Check out our Phase 1 flash cards and adult input posters.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Use these eye catching and engaging Phase 1 sounds flashcards to encourage your children to make pre-reading sounds. 16 cards to this pack. See also the colouring sheet pack to aid children's independent enjoyment and consolidation of sounds and adult input posters. Ideal to be used as parts of interactive displays and games.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Posters to help children to vocalise the sounds that vehicles make. Encourage the children to make the noises both loudly and quietly.
Phase 1 Phonics/Letters & Sounds Posters designed to…encourage children to identify sounds in the world around them, vocalise them and recreate that sound in response to a particular image in preparation for relating letters to sounds in phase 2.
Sound posters include: car, train, motorbike, police car, lorry and aeroplane.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Point to a vehicle and make its sound!
Phase 1 Phonics/Letters & Sounds Mat designed to…encourage children to identify sounds in the world around them, vocalise them and recreate that sound in response to a particular image in preparation for relating letters to sounds in phase 2.
Sound mat includes: car, train, motorbike, police car, lorry, ship and aeroplane.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Point to an animal and make its sound!
Phase 1 Phonics/Letters & Sounds Mat designed to…encourage children to identify sounds in the world around them, vocalise them and recreate that sound in response to a particular image in preparation for relating letters to sounds in phase 2.
You may like to use this game/activity mat in conjunction with our ‘Farm Animal Thunderstorm Sounds Game’.
Animals, Letters & Sounds - Phase 1, Activity, Group Activity, Print Carries Meaning, Posters/Display, Observational Skills, Cat, Goat, Duck, Chicken, Horse, Pig, Donkey, Sheep, Cow, Dog, Mammals, Birds
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A thunderstorm! Quick get round the farm and check on all the animals. They must be a bit frightened; they’re making a lot of noise!
The aim of this game is to encourage the link between images and specific repeatable sounds (Phase 1 Phonics/Letters & Sounds).
• Choose a game piece (either the tractors supplied or use counters/small world characters of your own)
• Roll the dice (choose dice with numbers appropriate for your children)
• Move your game piece along the board
• Make the right noise for the square you land on
• First to the finish is the winner!
(You may like to discuss the pictures with the children before playing the game and assign a sound to each image.)
Animals, Letters & Sounds - Phase 1, Activity, Group Activity, Print Carries Meaning, Games, Turn Taking, Counting, Number Recognition & Ordering, Cow, Pig, Goat, Dog, Donkey, Sheep, Goose, Chicken, Duck, Cat, Horse, Mammals, Birds
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Posters to help children to vocalise the sounds that animals make. Encourage the children to make the noises both loudly and quietly.
Animals, Cards/Flashcards, Letters & Sounds - Phase 1, Posters/Display, Activity, Group Activity, Discussion Prompts, Print Carries Meaning, Cow, Horse, Donkey, Goat, Pig, Dog, Sheep, Goose, Duck, Chicken, Birds, Mammals
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Dinosaur puppets to be cut out to stick on lolly sticks.
There are two background images included.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These card prompts are for encouraging the children to think of what sounds these dinosaurs might have made.
• Tell the children that no-one knows for sure what these dinosaurs sounded like, so we need some great ideas.
• When showing these card prompts draw attention to whether the dinosaur is small, large, or gigantic! Will this affect the sound?
• How about whether the dinosaur looks fierce or timid… does this change what they think?
An additional sound activity could be to think about the sounds the dinosaurs’ footsteps would make, paying attention to the size of the dinosaur and how heavy it would have been.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Point to a dinosaur and make its sound!
Phase 1 Phonics/Letters & Sounds Mat. Have great fun making up sounds for each dinosaur!
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Onomatopoeic firework word posters. Ideal for use with young children (Phase 1 letters and sounds) to encourage them to develop and experiment with various speech sounds. Also ideal with slightly older children to explore onomatopoeic words (words which phonetically imitate the sound that is made by the object being described). The children will love to make up their own!
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Onomatopoeic firework word colouring posters. Ideal for use with young children (Phase 1 letters and sounds) to encourage them to develop and experiment with various speech sounds. Also ideal with slightly older children to explore onomatopoeic words (words which phonetically imitate the sound that is made by the object being described). The children will love to make up their own!
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Point to an animal and make its sound!
Phase 1 Phonics/Letters & Sounds Mat designed to…encourage children to identify sounds in the world around them, vocalise them and recreate that sound in response to a particular image in preparation for relating letters to sounds in phase 2.
Activity, Group Activity, Discussion Prompts, Posters/Displays, Print Carries Meaning, Letters & Sounds - Phase 1, Observational Skills, Zoo, Chimpanzee, Tiger, Monkey, Wolf, Elephant, Snake, Lion, Sea Lion
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Pack of animal cards with description sentences. Children to listen closely to the description on each card (read by adult) and solve the problem of which animal is being described. Children then to respond by making the appropriate animal sound. Perhaps you could even make your own animal description cards?
Games, Activity, Group Activity, Discussion Prompts, Posters/Displays, Problem Solving, Print Carries Meaning, Cards/Flashcards, Letters & Sounds - Phase 1, Cow, Dog, Cat, Pig, Chicken, Duck, Sheep, Lion, Snake, Mouse
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These animal sound cards (like our snap cards) are intended to be folded and then laminated to create a more sturdy final product which can be reused many times. Perhaps you could lay the cards face down on the table/floor and take it in turns to select a card. Whoever selects a card must turn it over so that only they can see the animal on the other side. Their challenge is then to make the noise of the animal and everyone else has to guess which animal card they have. Before you play the game you may like to go through the cards together and discuss what sounds you think each animal makes. If you have a group of children you may end up with a few different versions for each animal e.g. some may go for the sounds traditionally taught for each animal (which vary between languages and cultures) and others may go for a more realistic representation of the sounds they have heard the animals make. Have fun exploring animal sounds!
(Animals included are cat, chicken, sheep, duck, cow, pig, dog, wolf, lion and snake.)
Cards/Flashcards, Games, Turn Taking, Group Activity, Observational Skills, Problem Solving, Discussion Prompts, Cat, Chicken, Sheep, Duck, Cow, Pig, Dog, Wolf, Lion, Snake
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These animal sound cards (like our snap cards) are intended to be folded and then laminated to create a more sturdy final product which can be reused many times. Perhaps you could lay the cards face down on the table/floor and take it in turns to select a card. Whoever selects a card must turn it over so that only they can see the animal on the other side. Their challenge is then to make the noise of the animal and everyone else has to guess which animal card they have. Before you play the game you may like to go through the cards together and discuss what sounds you think each animal makes. If you have a group of children you may end up with a few different versions for each animal e.g. some may go for the sounds traditionally taught for each animal (which vary between languages and cultures) and others may go for a more realistic representation of the sounds they have heard the animals make. Have fun exploring animal sounds!
(Animals included are cat, chicken, sheep, duck, cow, pig, dog, wolf, lion and snake.)
Cards/Flashcards, Games, Turn Taking, Group Activity, Observational Skills, Problem Solving, Discussion Prompts, Cat, Chicken, Sheep, Duck, Cow, Pig, Dog, Wolf, Lion, Snake
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Investigating clapped rhythms with gloved and non-gloved hands. Game explained on cover sheet. You may also like to discuss with the children the difference in sounds create by clapping gloved and non-gloved hands…such as loud, harsh, strong vs soft, quiet, muted, dampened.
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Game cards to scaffold the making of sounds using common items in different ways. This game has been designed to help children to begin to develop an understanding of sounds in the world around them. We purposefully chose objects which would be as easily accessible as possible that might make interesting and varied sounds when manipulated in different ways. A very fun and easy game to play… Choose one blue ‘Object’ card and one orange ‘Action’ card. Then perform the action on the object to create different sounds!
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Sound cards with individual imagery and lettering to enable quick recognition in pre-reading children. The cards are designed to encourage the children to have fun exploring vocal sounds they could use to make distinct sounds for each one. Alternatively you could explore objects in the world around which may make these sounds. Once sounds have been assigned to each card, games can be played such as ‘Call and Response’ where an adult may hold up the card to create the sound and the children copy. With the most engaged children you may wish to make more than one sound to create a rhythmic pattern for the children to copy and then encourage them to investigate their own rhythmic patterns!
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Sheets to be used on a listening sound walk. Designed to encourage children to focus in on the individual sounds they can hear around them. Available as a check list or tally sheet.
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A follow up game after ‘Making Sounds’ game. Children to listen to the hidden sounds made with the common items and then point to which item they think it is. A game designed to develop focused listening skills and a deeper understanding of their immediate world.
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Guitar Parts Poster and Activity Sheets. Full colour poster plus a colouring in/black and white version plus a missing labels worksheet.
Includes the labels: tuning pegs, strings, neck, sound hole and bridge.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Pack includes:
Front cover title page ‘Songs I love to sing!’ with space for the child’s name.
Plus an inner page which can be reproduced as many times as required. Boxes on this page include: ‘This song is called’, ‘This song is about’ and ‘A picture of me singing the song’.
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Mark making/drawing sheets designed to inspire children to identify sounds that they like and make marks to record those sounds on paper.
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Emoji cards intended for use in conjunction with a musical listening activity and/or interactive display.
Children can be encouraged to select the card which shows how the piece of music makes them feel. Great form of picture communication and also to prompt communication and language development.
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Emoji card colouring sheets intended for use in conjunction with a musical listening activity and/or interactive display.
Children can be encouraged to select the card which shows how the piece of music makes them feel. Great form of picture communication and also to prompt communication and language development. This set of cards can also be coloured once selected. CLICK HERE for full colour versions.
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Creative and hands on way for children to convey the emotion they feel when listening to a piece of music.
Laminate this sheet for children to use time and again to respond to different pieces of music by creating emotions in the form of playdough facial features.
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Banner and emoji cards intended for use in conjunction with a musical listening activity and/or interactive display.
Children can be encouraged to select the card which shows how the piece of music makes them feel. Great form of picture communication and also to prompt communication and language development.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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This pack includes:
A full colour ‘This music makes me feel…’ mat for display/activity station use. Children can be encouraged to listen to music and point to the emotion(s) that represent how the music makes them feel.
A black and white colouring in version of the mat for individual use. Again children can be encouraged to listen to music, but this time colour in the emoji(s) that represent how the music makes them feel.
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Phonics & Early Reading Guidance & Planning - Preschool
A play-based progression tool supporting the foundations for early reading before formal phonics.
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