Matching practice for reading numbers to 20 in words, part of Year 1 maths. Pupils join numerals to words, tackle the tricky teens from 11 to 20, then match number words to ten-frame pictures. An answer key lists every correct pair. It covers the England National Curriculum objective on reading and writing numbers from 1 to 20 in numerals and words.
Number — number and place value
“Read and write numbers from 1 to 20 in numerals and words.”
All three sections match numerals, words and ten frames within 20.
Pupils match numerals like 2 and 5 to their word forms.
Matching 11 to 20, with a warning about the tricky teens.
Number words matched to ten frames, such as fourteen to a 14-dot frame.
Exact matches listed for all three sections.
Independent practice
Set after teaching number words; the ten frames add a picture check on meaning.
Intervention
Focus the teens section on pupils who confuse thirteen and thirty-style words.
Early finishers
The matching format needs no extra explanation, so it works unsupervised.
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