Sea Picture Read and Match – Cut and Stick Activity (EYFS & KS1)
This engaging cut-and-stick activity is perfect for helping young learners build early reading and word recognition skills while exploring the theme of sea animals. Children read simple words and match them to the correct sea creature by cutting and pasting the labels into the boxes.
Ideal for Reception and Year 1, this resource supports reading fluency, vocabulary development, and fine motor skills through a fun, hands-on task. It’s great for independent work, literacy centres, or themed topic work.
Year Groups:
Reception, Year 1 (EYFS, KS1)
Curriculum Areas Covered:
English – Reading and Word Recognition
Understanding the World – Animals and Habitats
Fine Motor Skills Development
Learning Objectives:
To read and recognise simple CVC and familiar words
To match words to corresponding images using visual cues
To practise cutting and sticking with accuracy and care
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Add some seaside fun to your phonics lessons with this shell-themed CVC activity. Designed for EYFS, KS1, and Pre-K to 1st Grade learners, this resource supports early reading and spelling by helping children build and match simple CVC words to corresponding pictures hidden in shells or clams.
Perfect for summer, ocean, or beach themes, this activity reinforces sound-letter correspondence and blending in a hands-on, visually engaging way.
Great for:
Literacy and phonics centres
Small group work and interventions
Early finishers and morning tubs
Themed units (under the sea, summer, beach)
Independent or partner tasks
This low-prep resource brings an extra splash of excitement to CVC word practice, helping young learners grow in confidence while having fun.
Have fun with your phonics with these themed look and write cards. A great resource for working on spelling simple words.
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Number of Pages: 2 ( 8 cards )
Have fun with phonics while enjoying your current topic with these themed sentence builder cards. Children can practice reading words, ordering them and creating their own sentences.
Phonics skills it can develop:
reading
segmenting and blending
linking sounds to letters
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Number of Pages: 2 ( 6Â sentence examples )
This pack contains resources to enhance the teaching and learning of the Early Years curriculum. This includes 10 literacy resources, 10 maths resources and 5 additional EYFS resources.
Initial sound picture cards
word cards (phonics)
picture cards (phonics)
initial sound and picture match (phonics)
pictures and word cards (phonics)
CVC frame
Initial sound multiple choice cards
Writing template
100 square
Cow math math
Stacking math math
Counting multiple choice card
Addition cards
ten frames
dice roll and colour sheet
Chicken template to self number
Line tracing cards
Blank pig
Life cycle of a chicken
Farm animals
5 little ducks + mamma duck
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This pack contains resources to enhance the teaching and learning of the Early Years curriculum. This includes 10 literacy resources, 10 maths resources and 5 additional EYFS resources.
Initial sound picture cards
word cards (phonics)
picture cards (phonics)
initial sound and picture match (phonics)
pictures and word cards (phonics)
CVC frame
Animal names
Writing template
Penguin labelling
Word group mittens
100 square
Tree math mat
Numbered penguins
Counting multiple choice card
Addition cards
Fish spot counting
Polar animal word mat
Penguin template to self number
Line tracing cards
Blank snowman
Addition mittens
One more grid
One less grid
Blank penguin
Igloo template
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This phoneme frame is great for working with CVC words and allows children to practise their segmenting skills. A perfect addition to your phonics lesson.
Phonics skills it can develop:
Hearing initial sounds
Hearing middle and end sounds
Blending and segmenting
The Reading of CVC words
The writing of CVC words
Linking Sounds to letters
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Number of Pages: 1
Let your little learners showcase their creativity with this themed open ended writing prompt. Whether it’s writing what they can see, creating interesting narratives, listing facts they have learnt or simply making marks, this template provides wide lines perfect for those first time writers.
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Number of Pages: 1
Have fun with your phonics with these initial sound match activity. A great resources for working on the first sounds in words.
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Have fun with your phonics with this labelling activity. A great resource for working on spelling simple words.
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Literacy
Expressive Arts and Design
Number of Pages: 1
Have fun with phonics while enjoying your current topic with these themed sentence builder cards. Children can practice reading words, ordering them and creating their own sentences.
Suitaable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception.
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Number of Pages: 2 ( 6Â sentence examples )
This pack is tailored to meet learners who have reached their final term in school. These fun and simple activities are designed fort children who have reached, or are in the process of reaching, the end of phase 3 phonics.
Activities include:
Build a sentence
Labelling farm animals
Phonetic word cards
Look and write phonetic cards
Horse labelling
Initial sound match
Initial sound strips
Green Level tricky words
Phonetic picture cards
Writing prompt
See the previews for some of what is included.
Have fun with your phonics with these themed phonetic picture cards. A great resource for working on spelling simple words.
Phonetic skills it can develop:
linking sounds to letters
blending and segmenting
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Number of Pages: 2 ( 12 picture cards )
Sea-Themed Letter Formation Sheets – Letters j, d, c, and s (EYFS, KS1, Pre-K to 1st Grade)
Support early handwriting with this ocean-inspired letter formation resource, focusing on lowercase letters j, d, c, and s. Designed for learners in EYFS, KS1, and Pre-K to 1st Grade, these sheets help children practise letter formation through guided tracing and independent writing.
Each page features sea-themed illustrations and visuals to engage young writers while developing pencil control and early writing confidence.
Perfect for:
Literacy centres or handwriting practice
Fine motor and pre-writing skill development
Morning work or early finishers
Ocean-themed units or classroom displays
Learning objectives addressed:
Form lowercase letters using correct sequence and orientation
Develop fine motor control through writing
Strengthen letter-sound correspondence through visual prompts
Build writing stamina and confidence with familiar patterns
Have fun with your phonics with these themed phonetic word cards. A great resource for working on reading simple words.
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Number of Pages: 2 ( 12 word cards )
Have fun with your phonics with these initial sound strips. A great resources for working on the first sounds in words.
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Whether you are making stick puppets, enhancing your nursery rhymes or simply just brushing up on some maths skills, the duck family template is a great resource to cut out and get creative with.
Maths skills it can develop:
counting
one less
ordering
number recognition
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
This free resource is perfect for phonics lessons and the teaching of early literacy. The CVC frame will help reinforce those blending and segmenting skills.
Have fun with phonics whilst practising your spellings and fine motor skills. Start by practising the name by reading the words, making them out of individual letters and writing them.
Phonics Skills it can develop:
linking sounds to letters
segmenting and blending
reading
handwriting
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Literacy
Physical Development
Number of Pages: 4
Practice your phonics skills with this simple labeling activity. All words are phonetically decodable.
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Number of pages: 1