This pack contains 3 colourful and engaging Ppt presentations: Multiplying by 2 Multiplying by 3 Arrays and Positioning - draw and calculate The presentations provide opportunities for children to engage in active learning regarding the introduction of tables as well as opportunities to pictorially represent multiplication arrays. They help consolidate the basic understanding of multiplication and can be easily edited to provide variety of tasks. I have provided a link for the 2 and 3 times tables songs to reinforce the stations of the tables. I welcome feedback and hope that your classes enjoy the resources as mine have.

This pack composes of 2 colourful and engaging presentations about Robert Burns - Scotland’s treasured poet. The first presentation deals with his life from boyhood to man. The visuals provided for each slide enhance and encourage class/group discussion. There are also some online links provided to add to the lesson. It is ideal as an introductory experience/lesson for learners in preparation for a study of Robert Burns’ life and the celebration of 25th January each year. The second presentation is a quiz about his life and times. I have provided questions about his life and poetry. Each slide is followed by an ‘answer’ slide to provide learners with immediate recall. It is intended as an active learning experience for a group or a whole class. I would welcome feedback and hope your learners enjoy and engage with these resources.

Writing Complex Sentences and Extending Simple Sentences - suitable from Primary 2/3/4( Scotland) onwards and Year 1/2/3( England) onwards as well as a support for children experiencing barriers to their learning. Learning Intentions include: To write complex sentences To order complex sentences To extend complex sentences with connectives** This resource pack consists of: a colourful , comprehensive and concise PPT presentation which provides a scaffolded approach to sentence construction plus word documents that provide follow on activities engaging visuals that promote composition of complex and extended sentences (interactive white board pupil activities) straightfoward tasks that allow children to learn about sentence construction and build writing skills ( writing tasks) precise instruction in extending complex sentences using connectives (interactive white board pupil activities) explicit instruction on adding sentence starters to enhance simple sentences opportunities to order complex sentences (interactive white board pupil activities) scaffolded tasks that require children to compose sentences (visuals provided and sentence stems to support learners) written tasks on word documents for completion ( word bank provided to support learners) slides and word documents are editable so that teachers can personalise the visuals and sentences e.g. to correspond with topic or PSE etc. I have included several images in the preview so that teachers can see the quality of the resources offered and my efforts to make the literacy activities as engaging as possible. The font I have chosen is one which is installed in most systems- Bradley Hand. However, when uploading the preview shots to the site , the TES system sometimes changes it -not sure why! Be assured that within the presentation and word documents provided within the pack, the font is the same throughout. I welcome feedback and reviews from fellow teachers and hope that their learners enjoy the unit of work on sentence construction as much as my classes. Enjoy!