Nursery Initial Sound Sorting Baskets: s and c

Initial Sound Baskets: s and c sound sorting tray. A tuff-tray mat with two picnic baskets labelled with a key picture: sun for ‘s’ and car for ‘c’. Children sort picture cards into the basket with the same first sound, and put the odd ones out to the side. What’s included: • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • Sorting mat with s and c baskets and an odd-ones-out space. • 8 cut-out picture cards. Ideas for using it: • Basket sort: Say each picture name slowly and put it in the right basket. • Odd one out: Fish and bee don’t belong. Why not? • Feely bag: Pull out real objects and sort them by first sound. • Silly sentences: Make a sentence with s words: “Sam’s sock is on the star.”. Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds): • Develop their phonological awareness, so that they can: … recognise words with the same initial sound, such as money and mother. • Use a wider range of vocabulary. • Know many rhymes, be able to talk about familiar books, and be able to tell a long story. • Understand the five key concepts about print: print has meaning. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.