Flash Cards for Books 2+ and 5+

We have provided these ready-made, hard-copy flashcards in response to the common request of teachers in schools using the No Nonsense Phonics programme (NNPS Pupil Books 1 to 9) to great effect and who choose to include the ‘optional’ No Nonsense Phonics Skills Pupil Books 2+ and 5+ for their provision. Please note that we made the NNPS Pupil Books 2+ and 5+ also in response to the request from teachers who wished to more closely match the order of introduction of the letter/s-sound correspondences in the No Nonsense Phonics programme to a wider range of commercial phonics reading book series in their schools.

This set of 21 double-sided flashcards ‘bring forward’ some of the letter/-sound correspondences of the No Nonsense Phonics programme as introduced in the two ‘optional’ No Nonsense Phonics Skills Pupil Books 2+ and 5+.  The borders of these flashcards match the brown colouring of Pupil Book 2+ and the blue colouring of Pupil Book 5+.

Each sub-set has sequential numbering on every flashcard to ease systematic management.

Pupil Books 2+, 5+ and 9 also have printable Frieze Cards (see the ‘Free Resources’ page).

The 2+ and 5+ flashcards are additional to the set of 99 flashcards which ‘chunk’ the letter/-sound correspondences of the alphabetic code into 8 sub-sets with different coloured borders matching NNPS Pupil Books 1 to 8.

Follow the same guidance for practical use of the 2+ and 5+ flashcards as described in the original ‘Printable Guidance’.

For Full Information and Printable Guidance – Click HERE

Printable Guidance – 2 x page PDF – Click HERE

Size and card type:  

The flashcards are A5 (approx 21cm x 15cm).

The cards are 350gsm with a silk finish.

 Organising and sequencing:

 This set of 21 double-sided flashcards ‘bring forward’ some of the letter/-sound correspondences of the No Nonsense Phonics programme as introduced in the two ‘optional’ No Nonsense Phonics Skills Pupil Books 2+ and 5+.  The borders of these flashcards match the brown colouring of Pupil Book 2+ and the blue colouring of Pupil Book 5+.

Each sub-set has sequential numbering on every flashcard to ease systematic management.

Pupil Books 2+, 5+ and 9 also have printable Frieze Cards (see the ‘Free Resources’ page).

The 2+ and 5+ flashcards are additional to the set of 99 flashcards which ‘chunk’ the letter/-sound correspondences of the alphabetic code into 8 sub-sets with different coloured borders matching NNPS Pupil Books 1 to 8. The code featured on the 2+ and 5+ flashcards is presented later in the programme but different words are used on these optional flashcards as these need to be ‘cumulative’ and ‘decodable’ at the point of use.

Follow the same guidance for practical use of the 2+ and 5+ flashcards as described in the original ‘Printable Guidance’.

Purpose:

The flashcards are really practical for supporting teacher-modelling when introducing the new or focus letter/s-sound correspondence. The featured code is then immediately applied to the three large printed words on each card to model reading. Two words are provided in small-scale font for the adult to say aloud to model spelling.

Teaching and learning tip for use in schools:

It’s a great idea to have two parallel sets so that when each letter/s-sound correspondence is introduced in the main phonics lesson with the ‘teacher’s flashcards’, add the focus card from a parallel set to build up the ‘children’s set of flashcards’ for their free-play and ‘continuous provision’ opportunities.  This raises the likelihood of extra practice and fully embedded learning. Children love taking turns to ‘be’ the teacher doing the flashcard routine.

Reading:

Decoding for reading is a print-to-sound process. Three cumulative, decodable printed words are provided on the reverse side of each card so that the teacher can model sounding out and blending. Children can join in with the teacher to sound out and blend these words, when able, and they can increase their own practice if provided with their own set of cards to play with..)

Spelling:

Encoding for spelling is a sound-to-print process. Two printed words in tiny font are provided in the bottom border for the teacher to say these words aloud, very slowly and naturally, to model oral segmenting – that is, split the spoken word up into its constituent sounds from beginning to end and tally on to the thumb and fingers of the left hand, palm facing the teacher. Write long ‘sound dashes’ for each identified sound top left of the teacher’s board, then model how to write the graphemes (letters and letter groups) for each sound using the ‘sound dashes’ as writing lines for correct letter formation. Check the spelling by sounding out and blending.

Mnemonic (aid to memory) key picture-words:

Every new or focus grapheme of the alphabetic code is in large font with an example key picture and printed word.

A grapheme is a letter or letter group that is code for a featured sound. The key picture-words on the flashcards are included on Debbie’s free printable/projectable Giant and Mini tabletop Alphabetic Code Charts at:

https://alphabeticcodecharts.com .