Activity Card 1
Match the opposites :
big long bright well
short best hard noisy
weak little quiet soft
worst strong sick dull

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Activity Card 2
Add these words behind sun
to make compound words :
set rise shine rise flower
light down burn
Add these words behind rain
to make compound words :
drop bow fall coat

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Activity Card 57
Choose a prefix - a, be or to :
e.g. a + round = around
__cause __day __ware
__gain __fore __like __night
__gether __way __part __tween

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Activity Card 58
Choose a prefix - ex, im or in :
e.g. im + posible = impossible
__plain __portant __polite __press
__side __cited __crease
__to __pand __treme

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Activity Card 29
Match the opposites :
high crooked sweet easy
forget dry hard awake
damp low soft sour
straight remember asleep loud

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Activity Card 30
Add these words behind some
to make compound words :
one where thing time
Add these words behind any
to make compound words :
one where thing time

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Activity Card 15
Match the opposites :
clever dusk
summer never day happy
dawn winter grumpy frown
always silly smile night

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Activity Card 16
Add these words behind book
to make compound words :
shelf mark worm case shop seller stall
Add these words behind rain
to make compound words :
hill pipe fall pour right

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Activity Card 21
Match the opposites :
straight tiny
enormous pretty young sad
build bent happy flat
ugly destroy bumpy old

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Activity Card 22
Add these words behind door
to make compound words :
stop man knob step bell mat way
Add these words behind light
to make compound words :
bulb weight ship house

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Activity Card 3
Match the words that mean the same :
huge clever glared well
smart hard healthy replied
difficult soft built stared
gentle enormous answered made

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Activity Card 4
Add un to these words to make the opposite :
set happy true fair done
wise fit safe tie
known tidy lucky
likely clear well

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Activity Card 41
Write these words & circle
the silent letter in each :
written knight
plumb gnawing
knitting crumb
wren whole

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Activity Card 42
Add dis to these words to make the opposite :
agree like
obey comfort
approve trust
order ability

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Activity Card 13
Write these words then
circle the silent letters :
gnaw knock ghost lamb
knee climb ballet school
wrong guest comb write

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Activity Card 14
Words that sound the same but are different :
eye - I
won - sore - two -
there - bare - wood -
aren’t - hole - hair -

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Activity Card 31
Write these words then circle
the silent letters :
gnawed knife ghastly bomb
kneel thumb salmon knit
wring guess tomb written

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Activity Card 32
Words that sound the same but are different :
tee - tea
sail - rows - plane -
reel - pair - sun -
weight - threw - stair -

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Activity Card 47
Write these words then write
their plural :
eg. knife - knives
loaf - leaf -
wife - calf -
half - wolf -

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Activity Card 48
Words that sound the same but are different :
sun - son
pain - reed - piece -
rode - thrown - buy -
weak - threw - where -

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Activity Card 49
Write these words then
write their plural :
eg. family - families
army - lady -
berry - party -
fairy - lolly -

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Activity Card 50
Add ful at the end of these words
to make new words :
care - wonder -
thought - grace -
success - faith -
help - beauty -

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Activity Card 59
Write these words then write
their plural :
eg. family - families
candy - bunny -
lorry - hanky -
beauty - daisy -

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Activity Card 60
Add ly at the end of these words
to make new words :
slow - brave -
late - quick -
love - strong -
near - clear -

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Activity Card 5
Match the words that sound
the same but look different :
their great allowed
male deer aloud to there
two dear won buy grate
one bored by mail board

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Activity Card 6
Clap these words to find
out how many syllables :
beautiful = lovely =
exciting = remember =
school = February =
chocolate = electricity =

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Activity Card 33
Join these words together to
make compound words :
fly grand book man lady bird
sea dragon up gum gull boot
stairs in shelf mail father side

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Activity Card 34
Clap these words to find out how many
syllables :
different = guard =
transportation = magic =
excellent = December =
author = city =

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Activity Card 25
Match the words that sound the
same but look different :
piece steak plain whale plane
too male wood to stake
wail would so mail sew peace

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Activity Card 26
Clap these words to find
out how many syllables :
wonderful = library =
understand = holiday =
friend = museum =
November = colour =

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Activity Card 7

small	smaller	smallest
hard	?	?
strong	?	?
old	?	?
long	?	?
short	?	?
tall	?	?

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Activity Card 8
Complete these contractions :
e.g. don’t = do not
can’t = couldn’t = won’t =
he’ll = wouldn’t = we’ll =
I’m = I’ve = you’re =

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Activity Card 45

small	smaller	smallest
rough	?	?
smooth	?	?
thick	?	?
thin	?	?
low	?	?
high	?	?

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Activity Card 46
Complete these contractions :
e.g. don’t = do not
won’t = couldn’t = didn’t =
he’d = wouldn’t = we’ll =
I’d = we’ve = you’re =

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Activity Card 37

call	calling	called
look	?	?
start	?	?
watch	?	?
stay	?	?
shout	?	?
jump	?	?

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Activity Card 38
Complete these contractions :
e.g. don’t = do not
haven’t = mustn’t = hadn’t =
they’ll = doesn’t = they’ll =
she ’s = they’ve = they’re =

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Activity Card 55
Change the endings.

feed	feel	feet
peek	?	?
heap	?	?
seam	?	?
meak	?	?

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Activity Card 56
Change the
middle vowels
to make 3 or 4
new words.

hat	het	hit	hot	hut
b__t	?	?	X	?
h__m	?	?	X	?
p__t	?	?	?	X
c__t	X	X	?	?
p__n	?	?	X	?
r__d	?	?	?	X

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Activity Card 17

small	smaller	smallest
soft	?	?
weak	?	?
young	?	?
fine	?	?
wise	?	?
great	?	?

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Activity Card 18
Complete these contractions :
e.g. don’t = do not
aren’t = shouldn’t = wasn’t =
we’ll = didn’t = I’ll =
he’s = I’ve = we’re =

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Activity Card 9

ing	ap	ike
eet	str	oll
aw	ipes	ong

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Make these
str words
and find 2
of your own.

Activity Card 10

ob	ead	ow
eat	thr	ee
ill	ough	oat

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thr words
and find 2
of your own.

Activity Card 23

it	ap	ower
ee	fl	y
oor	ip	low

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fl words
and find 2
of your own.

Activity Card 10

ob	ead	ow
eat	thr	ee
ill	ough	oat

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thr words
and find 2
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Activity Card 35

ide	ay	esent
etty	pr	ice
aise	une	ize

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pr words
and find 2
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Activity Card 36

own	ill	ink
ive	dr	y
aw	eam	op

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dr words
and find 2
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Activity Card 11

ease	ay	ant
enty	pl	ace
op	um	ane

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pl words
and find 2
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Activity Card 12

own	eep	ow
ib	cr	y
awl	eam	oak

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cr words
and find 2
of your own.

Activity Card 19

eed	ray	ots
eak	sp	ace
poil	end	ell

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sp words
and find 2
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Activity Card 20

eat	eap	ick
in	ch	ew
eek	ip	ange

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ch words
and find 2
of your own.

Activity Card 27

ash	ack	ile
oke	sm	all
ooth	art	ell

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sm words
and find 2
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Activity Card 28

eet	out	ark
ell	sh	oe
eep	ip	ow

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sh words
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Activity Card 39

ate	ite	i
id	sk	y
etch	ip	in

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sk words
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Activity Card 40

ead	ing	eak
ink	br	other
own	ight	oom

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br words
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Activity Card 43

ate	ing	ice
id	sl	y
ed	ip	ap

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sl words
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Activity Card 44

ever	ing	ock
ap	cl	othes
own	ip	oak

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cl words
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Activity Card 51

ick	ing	op
iff	st	ay
and	eep	eel

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st words
and find 2
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Activity Card 52

iver	ick	ack
est	qu	een
ite	ail	iet

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qu words
and find 2
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Activity Card 53

ill	ee	og
ont	fr	y
esh	uit	ight

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fr words
and find 2
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Activity Card 54

ife	ock	it
ow	kn	ee
ew	eel	ight

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kn words
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