Use this comprehensive Teaching Guide to help your students learn to blend 3 and 4-letter short-vowel words, along with the five other common sounds — ch, sh, ee, oo and _y. This wonderful resource supports the first set of Funny Photo Phonics downloadable PDF resources, the Funny Photo Phonics Set 1 and the Flipping Phonics  — A Bat, a Cat, and a Dog in a Hat.

Within this Teaching Guide there are plenty of teaching activities to strengthen:

• recognising and making rhyming words
• building word families
• reading and writing words
• handwriting practice
• phonemic awareness skills
• hearing syllables and individual sounds
• manipulating sounds within words

For each short vowel sound there is a page of teaching notes with activities to do before, during and after reading. Then there are two printable activity pages for each resource.