Help keep your kids and grand-children amused during wet weekends and holidays with these free printable downloads for them to play.
Or use in the classroom to aid learning and teach your children some simple fun reading activities with simple reading and book related worksheet games.
Download the FUN and interesting resources below, based upon the books:
- Question Ideas
- Letter Bingo (Letter recognition game)
- Vocabulary List
- Word Bingo (Word recognition games)
- Word Searches (Word recognition games)
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Colouring In Pictures
Colouring In
Colouring pages including Tania Russita’s illustrations based on the characters in the book can be downloaded for FREE. Sign up to Wilkie J. Martin’s FREE readers’s list to get the download link to the PDF document. (You can leave the readers’s list at any time! )
In The Same Boat
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The Lazy Rabbit
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Questions
Question Ideas
Lists of suggested starter questions for each book. They are PDF documents with an easy to read (dyslexia friendly) font.
In The Same Boat
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The Lazy Rabbit
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Letter Bingo
Letter Bingo
A PDF document with a very simple letter recognition game in a dyslexia friendly font.
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.
Download now letter bingo playsheets and calling sheets
Vocabulary Lists
Vocabulary Lists
Vocabulary lists for each book. They are PDF documents in an easy to read (dyslexia friendly) font .
All In The Same Boat
Download now Vocabulary list for All In The Same Boat
The Lazy Rabbit
Download now Vocabulary list for The Lazy Rabbit
Word Bingo
Word Bingo
A PDF document with a word recognition game in a dyslexia friendly font..
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.
All In The Same Boat
Download now All In The Same Boat random word bingo playsheet and calling sheet
The Lazy Rabbit
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Word Search Puzzles
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.
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. Left to right, right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top and diagonally.
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
Download now 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
Download now 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
Download now 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
Download now 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
Download now 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
Download now Word Search Puzzle Book 6 – 20 Word Search Puzzles using words from The Lazy Rabbit