Want a fun exciting new way to practise the alphabet and letter recognition that takes almost no time to prepare – check out Dinosaur Digs! Letter fun for every explorer!

Great for reluctant writers!
Set up in minutes, play for hours!
Fun independent activity!
Easy Literacy Centres
Exciting morning work display

What is a dinosaur dig? Place the dig sheet at the bottom of a tub – no cutting or preparing required. Add some sand, rice, kitty litter etc on top and you’re ready to go. Our budding explorers (palaeontologists) search for bones and have never had so much fun practising their letters! With over 150 digs covering a variety of skills, your students will be able to play and learn throughout the year. These pages can be used to supplement any phonics program to support letter recognition. Each page is stand alone and can be used in any order. There is a page for each letter where children have to dig to find the letter which is NOT the target letter (eg a whole page of a’s, giving them heaps of practice reading a, until they find the letter which doesn’t belong, an s). The letter that does not belong on these pages follows the Jolly Phonics letter progression (with a few variations as this does not contain diagraphs) so they will also be reviewing the previous letter in the JP progression.

What you’ll get:

5 x whole alphabet lower case letters dig sheets (great for practicing the whole alphabet, finding a target letter like the first letter of their name or spelling a word)
5 x whole alphabet capital letters dig sheets (great for practicing the whole alphabet, finding a target letter like the first letter of their name or spelling a word)
26 x target letter only in lots of different fonts – lower case letters
26 x target letter only in lots of different fonts – capital letters
26 x spot which isn’t the target letter – lower case letters
26 x spot which isn’t the target letter – capital letters
26 x find 5 of the target letter – lower case letters
26 x find 5 of the target letter – capital letters
Instructions for how to use the resource
Wall signs for setting up a classroom display
Optional recording sheet (great for formative assessments)

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