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A treasure box of teaching and learning, including classroom resources, early years, primary and professional development. All resources have been designed and tested by an experienced early years and primary teacher. Click on the link below to join my update group or follow my page on Facebook to be the first to see my new resources!
Literacy punctuation KS1 sentences worksheet resource set
This is a worksheet set covering activities for sentence punctuation, suitable for Year 1 and Year 2. The worksheet set contains 11 worksheets and covers learning intentions for:
Recognising upper and lower-case letters (1 worksheet plus solution key)
Punctuating sentences with a capital letter and full stop. (3 worksheets)
Punctuating sentences with a question mark or exclamation mark (4 worksheets)
Punctuating sentences with speech marks (3 worksheets)
Suitable for:
Year 1 classes
Year 2 classes
A4 size
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English sentence builder worksheet KS1
This is a sentence builder worksheet. Children can choose from the sentence starters, adjectives, nouns, verbs and sentence endings to construct a sentence.
Suitable for KS1 and KS2 classes, depending on ability.
A4 size
Available in ready to print PDF
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Upper & Lower Case Alphabet A4 Display Cards
These are useful A4 classroom display cards featuring upper and lower case letters of the alphabet. Great for classroom displays, literacy sessions, phonics games and activities. Suitable for:
Nursery and early years settings
Reception Classes
KS1 classes
Pre-school
Kindergarten
Formatted in popular Arial font, all the work to get the margins and spacing right has been done for you. Just print and go!
A4 size
Available in an editable Word format or a ready-to-print PDF.
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Year 1 phonics puzzles long vowel phoneme wordsearch bundle 5 – 6 years
These are fun wordsearch activities designed to fit alongside the Year 1 phonics curriculum for children aged five to six in England.
This set contains a wordsearch for each set of long vowel phonemes, plus an overview puzzle. Each wordsearch has a solution key. The puzzles cover the main spelling patterns for the long vowel phonemes:
ay, ai and a-e
ea and ee
igh, -y and i-e
oa, ow and o-e
oo, u-e and ew
plus an overview puzzle
To support readability for this age group, most words in the puzzle can be read from left to right or from top to bottom. Great for teaching sessions, games and activities.
The puzzles are in Word so that they can also be used on-screen (children can highlight the words) and the solution keys are in PDF.
A4 size
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Geography KS2 group task on mountain ranges
This is a group task activity set, most suitable for Upper Key Stage Two children 9-11 years old.
The task instructions page asks children to work together to make a display panel about one of the world’s mountain ranges, then present it to the class. The accompanying worksheet ‘Profile of a Mountain Environment’ helps to scaffold the task for children of different abilities.
This task also supports English literacy objectives around using non-fiction sources.
This task can take 1 to 2 lessons.
Suitable for:
Year 5 classes
Year 6 classes
A4 size
Available in Word
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Days, months & seasons resource cards and A4 display cards
These are useful display and resource cards featuring the names of the days, months and seasons. Great for classroom displays, teaching sessions, games and activities. This set contains:
*Word document and PDF for days of the week - simple list on A4
Word document and PDF for months of the year – simple list on A4
*Word document and PDF for seasons of the year – large display size on A4 colour backgrounds
Word document and PDF for seasons of the year including months for each season – large display size on A4 colour backgrounds
Suitable for:
Nursery and early years settings
Reception Classes
KS1 classes
Pre-school
Kindergarten
Formatted in popular Calibri font, all the work to get the margins and spacing right has been done for you. Just print and go!
A4 size
Available in an editable Word format or a ready-to-print PDF.
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English History KS1 Great Fire of London resource set
This is a resource set to support teaching around the topic of the Great Fire of London. The contents include:
A topic fact sheet for teacher use
An example topic plan that can be shared with parents
Display labels for a themed role play area
An example poem for the topic
Three poetry writing frames
Three eyewitness account writing frames
The resource set does not include lesson planning, but there are learning intentions and activity ideas within the topic plan.
Available in Word for easy editing. I have also included two JPEG files of famous paintings connected with the fire.
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These are useful lower case alphabet display and resource cards, A4 size. Great for classroom displays, teaching sessions, games and activities. This set contains Word documents for:
*lower case alphabet in Arial font
*lower case alphabet in Bookman font
*lower case alphabet in Calibri font
*lower case alphabet in Comic Sans font
*lower case alphabet in Kirsten ITC font
*lower case alphabet in Lucida Calligraphy font
Suitable for:
Nursery and early years settings
Reception Classes
KS1 classes
Pre-school
Kindergarten
Formatted in lower case letters, all the work to get the margins and spacing right has been done for you. Just print and go!
A4 size
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Literacy compound words sheet
Simple worksheet for use in English lessons, designed to support children to read and spell a range of compound words.
This is a simple word bank template suitable for Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms. It may also be useful for some older or younger children.
A4 size
Available in ready to print PDF
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English sentence builder worksheet KS1
This is a sentence builder worksheet. Children can choose from the sentence starters, adjectives, nouns, verbs and adverbs to construct a sentence.
Suitable for KS1 and KS2 classes, depending on ability.
A4 size
Available in ready to print PDF
If you like this resource take a look at my NEW colourful sentence builder resource set with 8 designs.
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Year 1 English Mathematics summer holiday activities handout for parents
This is a simple activity handout suitable for Year 1 classes at the end of the school year. It may also be useful for some Reception children.
Contains suggestions for easy English and Mathematics activities for the summer holidays. Easy to print and hand out!
Suitable for:
Reception Classes
KS1 classes
A4 size
Available in ready to print PDF
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Literacy adjectives word bank sheet
Adjectives word bank for use in English lessons, especially during creative writing.
This is a simple word bank template suitable for Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms. It may also be useful for some older or younger children.
A4 size
Available in ready to print PDF
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Early literacy high frequency word list Reception class EYFS
Reception high frequency word list. Useful for sending home, teaching sessions, games and activities.
Suitable for:
Nursery and early years settings
Reception Classes
KS1 classes
Pre-school
Kindergarten
A4 size
Available in ready-to-print PDF.
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Book review literacy worksheet template for Year 1, Year 2 and Reception
This is a simple literacy book review worksheet template suitable for Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms. It may also be useful for some Reception children.
The worksheet asks children to summarise what has happened in the book, say whether they liked or disliked the book and explain their reason. Useful as part of a guided reading carousel, to support home reading or for literacy lessons.
This worksheet has been used succesfully in a Year 1 classroom.
Suitable for:
Reception Classes
KS1 classes
A4 size
Available in ready to print PDF
If you like this resource take a look at my NEW colourful sentence builder resource set with 8 designs.
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Simple worksheet template A4 KS1 Literacy Numeracy cross curricular topics
Simple A4 Worksheet Template
A4 size
Available in an editable Word format.
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Name star reward chart labels for classroom displays
These are useful star templates for children’s names, useful for reward charts, behaviour incentives and classroom display.
Great for classroom displays, teaching sessions, games and activities.
Suitable for:
Nursery and early years settings
Reception Classes
KS1 classes
Pre-school
Kindergarten
A4 size
Available in an editable Word format.
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Year 1 phonics wordsearch long vowel phonemes 5 – 6 years
This is a fun wordsearch activity designed to fit alongside the Year 1 phonics curriculum for children aged five to six in England.
Long vowel sounds wordsearch plus a solution key.
The target words cover the main spelling patterns for the long vowel phonemes.
To support readability for this age group, most words in the puzzle can be read from left to right or from top to bottom.
Great for teaching sessions, games and activities.
A4 size
Available in ready-to-print PDF.
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#Primary #KS1 #Year1 #Literacy #English #Phonics
Literacy instructional writing KS1 simple craft activity 'Making a Springy Spider’
This is a set of written instructions for a simple craft activity suitable for Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms. It may also be useful for some Reception children.
The instructions might be used as part of work on non-fiction instructional writing or perhaps as part of an art/craft activity.
Suitable for:
Reception Classes
KS1 classes
A4 size
Available in ready to print PDF
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