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Pictures
- Colouring In, Free colouring sheets – just signup to Wilkie’s newsletter.
Questions
- Question Suggestions, help your children understand and get the most from the books these question suggestions. Download for free now.
Letters
- Letter bingo, a simple game to help with letter character recognition. Download for free now.
Words
- Vocabulary Lists , help your children understand the words from the books. Download for free now.
- Word bingo, a simple game to help with word recognition – using the words from the stories. Download for free now.
- Word Search Puzzles, help your children get to know the words used in the books by searching for them in these simple puzzles (available for 3 different ability levels). Download for free now.
Colouring In
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In The Same Boat
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The Lazy Rabbit
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Questions
Each book has a list of suggested questions. They are PDF documents with an easy to read (dyslexia friendly) font.
Click on the link to open the FREE PDF document, then in the PDF viewer select to download or print the PDF file.
In The Same Boat
Question ideas for All In The Same Boat
The Lazy Rabbit
Questions ideas for The Lazy Rabbit
Letter Bingo
Use the letter bingo cards and the random letter calling sheet to play a game of letter or alphabet bingo.
Each playsheet has the letters of the alphabet listed in order with 8 random letters blanked out. The calling sheet has the alphabet in random order, read/call-out the letters and check them off on the playsheet. The first one to check all the non-blank letters is the winner. (In the UK in a similar game using numbers we shout ‘bingo’ or ‘house’ when we complete the sheet.)
There are 30 different playsheets and 1014 (or 39 sets of) random letters on the calling sheet.
Click on the link to open the FREE PDF document, then in the PDF viewer select to download or print the PDF file.
Vocabulary Lists
These are vocabulary lists for the books. They are PDF documents in an easy to read (dyslexia friendly) font .
Click on the link to open the FREE PDF document, then in the PDF viewer select to download or print the PDF file.
All In The Same Boat
Vocabulary list for All In The Same Boat
The Lazy Rabbit
Vocabulary list for The Lazy Rabbit
Word Bingo
Use the word bingo cards and the random word calling sheets to play a game of word bingo.
Each playsheet has a selection of words from the story in random order – with 5 words blanked out. The calling sheet has 3 sets of all the words from the story in different orders, starting at any number read/call-out all the words in one set and check them off on the playsheet. The first one to check all the non-blank words is the winner. (In the UK in a similar game using numbers we shout ‘bingo’ or ‘house’ when we complete the sheet.)
There are 50 different playsheets and 3 sets of random words on the calling sheet.
Click on the link to open the FREE PDF document, then in the PDF viewer select to download or print the PDF file.
All In The Same Boat
All In The Same Boat word bingo playsheets
All In The Same Boat
All In The Same Boat random word calling sheet
The Lazy Rabbit
The Lazy Rabbit word bingo playsheets
The Lazy Rabbit
The Lazy Rabbit random word calling sheet
Word Search Puzzles
These are classic word search puzzles to solve using words from the books. They are PDF books in an easy to read (dyslexia friendly) font. Search for the words in a 15 x 15 letter grid.
Click on the link to open the FREE PDF document, then in the PDF viewer select to download or print the PDF file.
There are 3 types of puzzle grids for different ability levels – choose the grid complexity suitable for your child/children/class.
The most difficult grid type. The words in the grid appear in any direction.
Available in Word Search Puzzle Books 1 & 4
The middle complexity grid type. The words in the grid are horizontal or vertical and can be left to right, right to left, top to bottom, or bottom to top. There are no diagonal words.
Available in Word Search Puzzle Books 2 & 5
The simplest grid type. The words in the grid are horizontal or vertical and are either left to right or top to bottom. There are no diagonal words or words going right to left, or bottom to top.
Available in Word Search Puzzle Books 3 & 6
All In The Same Boat – Book 1
All directions word search
Word Search Puzzle Book 1 – 20 Word Search Puzzles using words from All In The Same Boat
All In The Same Boat – Book 2
Horizontal & vertical, left to right. right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top
Word Search Puzzle Book 2 – 20 Word Search Puzzles using words from All In The Same Boat
All In The Same Boat – Book 3
Horizontal & vertical left to right and top to bottom
Word Search Puzzle Book 3 – 20 Word Search Puzzles using words from All In The Same Boat
The Lazy Rabbit – Book 4
All directions word search
Word Search Puzzle Book 4 – 20 Word Search Puzzles using words from The Lazy Rabbit
The Lazy Rabbit – Book 5
Horizontal & vertical, left to right. right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top
Word Search Puzzle Book 5 – 20 Word Search Puzzles using words from The Lazy Rabbit
The Lazy Rabbit – Book 6
Horizontal & vertical left to right and top to bottom
Word Search Puzzle Book 6 – 20 Word Search Puzzles using words from The Lazy Rabbit