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Learner Booklets
Activity Booklets (First Steps) and Pupil Practice Booklets (Rocket Phonics SSP and Next Steps)
allow learners to gradually build reading and writing skills. The Booklets are designed to build
confidence and can be used flexibly to suit the needs of your learners. Mini-assessments and
review pages provide opportunities to track progress.
Ages 3–4
/m /
Colouring activities help
to build motor control.
m
Ages 4–6
/m /
1. Say and colour the pictures.
a
/a /
A
/a /
1. Revisit and review: Say and tick each sound and picture.
2. Say the sounds and pictures.
m
Each Booklet provides
equal practice for blending
(decoding) and segmenting
(spelling/writing).
a
m
A
s
S
a
1. Revisit and review: Listen to the sounds and point to the letters and pictures.
A
a
A
An ant sat on a tap.
3. Trace the letters.
How many did you spot?
mmm
s
3. Pre-blending practice:
Match the letters to the pictures.
a
S
a
A
2. Grapheme write: Copy the letters and say the sound as you write.
2. Grapheme search: Find and circle all the a letters.
4. Colour the items that begin with a.
a
A
a
A
3. Pre-segmenting practice: Say the word and write a.
a
4. Trace the word.
a
man
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4. Apply: Let’s write.
a
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Young learners can practise tracing letter
shapes and blending in simple words.
Ages 6–7
a�i
/ ai /
a�y
Handwriting 1
1. Revisit and review. Say and tick each sound.
ce
ed
st
b
tt
1. Revisit and review.
sc
eer
oi
2. Grapheme search. Underline all the graphemes that are code for the /ai/ sound.
On Saturday, Mum took May to a ‘Stay and Play’ session at the
local arts centre. It was raining so Mum drove there in the car.
She parked in the pay and display car park. Mum was dismayed
to see that the ticket machine wasn’t working. “This is such a
pain!” she complained.
c
a
d
c
a
d
c
a
c
a
d
c
a
d
c
a
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
2. Practise.
c�a�m�p
Mum looked in her bag for her phone so she could call the
car parking company to explain. May waited on the pathway
near Mum. She watched a little yellow snail as it slid along
the railing.
___________
h�a�n�d ___________
d�a�m�p ___________
s�c�a�n
___________
s�a�n�d
c�a�r�d
___________
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3. Apply.
Th�e s�a�n�d w�a�s d�a�m�p.
How many did you find?
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3. Apply. Re-read the passage above and answer the question.
We p�l�a�y c�a�r�d�s a�t c�a�m�p.
Why did Mum complain?
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Pupil Practice Booklets
are something I would have
never felt comfortable using
in the past – I am now totally
converted. The pupils really
enjoy completing them. It is
a real joy to see them pick
up the structure and start to
complete them confidently
very early on.
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Rebecca Nelson, EYFS Teacher,
Phonics and Reading Leader, The
Boyle and Petyt Primary School
Learners can practise and apply
blending and segmenting skills
at letter-sound, word, sentence
and text levels.
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Dedicated cursive
handwriting
practice is provided.
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