Watch this story called ‘The Great Balloon Hullabaloo’

 

Can your child identify any rhyming words in the text? Write out a selection of the rhyming pairs. Don’t worry about the correct spellings – encourage your child to sound out the words and spell them as they think.

ball/hall

money/honey

cheese/please

moon/balloon

try/sky

frown/down

stars/Mars

bread/head

moss/cross

Saturn/pattern

said/head

mist/list

face/place

back/snack

power/shower

pop/stop

Chat to your child about where they would go if they had a hot air balloon.

Use the tricky word cards. Allow your child to be the teacher. Ask your child to read a word and you have to write it. Get some right, but get some wrong – does your child notice?

Swap roles, you read some tricky words and your child writes them.