Ten letters for a frog: GRENOUILLE and the rest of the reptile list

This is one of the longer-worded sheets in the set, which changes how it feels to do. GRENOUILLE and SALAMANDRE are ten letters each, so they take up a great deal of the grid and, once spotted, are impossible to mistake. The pictures show which creature is which; the child's job is to trace the rows and columns until the letters line up. Nothing needs writing out; finding and ringing is the whole task.

Long words are not necessarily the hard ones here. GRENOUILLE gives trouble in the mouth rather than on the page — that run of letters in the middle is nothing like how it sounds. CAMÉLÉON carries two accents, and children who have only heard it often search for a version without them. ALLIGATOR and COBRA are spelled exactly as in English and go quickly. Start with those two if confidence is low.

Reptiles hold attention well past the age at which other topics stop working, so this sheet does not feel babyish to a seven-year-old. It sits naturally after a zoo trip or a wildlife programme. IGUANE appears on the pets sheet too, and children who have met it once will find it here in seconds — a small but useful reminder that the same words keep turning up across different topics.