This fun activity encourages children to use their phonic knowledge to read and write phase 2 and phase 3 words. Children dig for gold coins and read the real and nonsense CVC words. Real words are treasured, and nonsense words are thrown overboard.

Objectives
Children in Reception
Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences (CL)
Reading individual letters by saying the sounds for them (L)
Blend sounds into words, so that they can read short words made up of known letter-sound correspondences (L)
Read some letter groups that each represent one sound and say sounds for them (L)
Form lower-case and capital letters correctly (L)
Spell words by identifying the sounds and then writing the sound with letter/s (L)
Re-read what they have written to check that it makes sense (L)
Early Learning Goals
Say a sound for each letter in the alphabet and at least 10 digraphs (L)
Read words consistent with their phonic knowledge by sound-blending (L)
Write recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed (L)
Spell words by identifying sounds in them and representing the sounds with a letter or letters (L)

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