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Big Book Vocabulary Cards
Sets of flashcards for popular children's books
These packs include vocabulary cards with symbols, cards with text, cards with symbols and text, and smaller cards with words and phrases to support popular reading books. There are materials to support five books in each download pack.
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Each pack has four sets of cards:
Set 1. Large cards with symbols + text,
Set 2. Large cards with symbols only
Set 3. Large cards with text only (to use with sets 1 and 2)
Set 4. Smaller cards with words and phrases for sentence work
Text cards
Symbol cards
Text cards
Sentence strips
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Pack 5 contains flashcards for:
The Gruffalo
by Julia Donaldson
The Gruffalo's Child
by Julia Donaldson
Room on the Broom
by Julia Donaldson
The Snail and the Whale
by Julia Donaldson
Tyrannosaurus Drip
by Julia Donaldson -
Pack 4 contains flashcards for:
Each Peach Pear Plum
by Allan Ahlberg, Janet Ahlberg
Good Little Wolf
by Nadia Shireen
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle
The Enormous Turnip
by Jan Lewis
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
by Michael Rosen -
Pack 3 contains flashcards for:
Red Bird
by David Orme
Good Little Wolf
by Colin McNaughton
Tidy Titch
by Pat Hutchins
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
by Judith Kerr
Where's My Teddy?
by Jez Alborough -
Pack 2 contains flashcards for:
Owl Babies
by Martin Waddell
Peace At Last
by Jill Murphy
The Pig in the Pond
by Martin Waddell
Rabbit's Woolly Jumper
by Mark Birchall
The Rainbow Fish
by Marcus Pfister -
Pack 1 contains flashcards for:
This Is The Bear
and The Picnic Lunch
by Sarah Hayes
Elmer in the Snow
by David McKee
Handa's Surprise
by Eileen Browne
Hop, Hop Kangaroo
by Saviour Pirotta
What would we do without Missus Mac?
by Gus Clarke
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Why are the vocabulary cards useful?
Big books are used in group story reading. The cards can help pupils understand the vocabulary while listening to the story and in follow-up activities. Find out how they have been used in the Symbols Inclusion Project.
All of the main words used in the book are included in the pack, except for specific characters. There are cards for between 35 and 80 words in each set, plus some key phrases.
Activities to do with the vocabulary cards:
- Use the cards when reading the story to a group. Showing the symbols helps children understand and remember the words. Put the cards on the wall as a reference sheet. Any child who does not remember a word can easily look it up.
- Print off the sets of vocabulary with symbol support for pupils to use when writing about the story. This will give confidence to some children who are unsure of all the words.
- Make matching activities using the cards to match between identical cards or to match symbols only with the text cards
If you have InPrint you can also
- Make bingo and matching games using templates provided
- Print out large copies of the black and white symbols for colouring.
- print the cards in colour or as line drawings
- Print the cards at A4 for group work or two pages to a sheet to make A5 booklets for individual pupils.