A page of pictures beginning with the blends 'dw', 'dr', 'tr' or 'tw'. A page of words beginning with the blends 'dw', 'dr', 'tr' or 'tw'. A card game for children to play to reinforce blends of 'r'. Print out, colour and laminate a set of cards for each small group of children. Each child begins with 4 cards and the remaining are stacked in the centre.
Children take it in turns to turn over a central card and decide whether to take or leave it.
Once a child has a family of cards of the same blend they can be placed down. The winner is the child with the most families once all the cards have been used. Use to remind children of traditional story plot and character and to develop intonation and character voice. A worksheet for children to record the speech of their favourite character, and to draw them in disguise. Another child must then guess who the character is from what they are saying.