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We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
Six poetry scheme help cards that explain what the scheme is and then gives an example. They are great to have available to your children for them to use when writing poems or as a way to differentiate.
Poetry rhyming schemes:
- Acrostic
- Couplet
- Quatrain (aaaa)
- Quatrain (aabb)
- Quatrain (abab)
- Quatrain (abca)
Adjectives (Worksheets / Activities): Get your children practising their adjectives with this fun pack of differentiated worksheets / activities and they will be an adjective pro before you know it!
Contents:
- Adjectives Safari (highlight the adjectives) x 2
- Add The Adjective (cut and stick / fill the gap) x 2
- Adjective Surgery (fill the gap) x 2
- Describing Me x 1
- Invent An Animal x 2
- Scavenger Hunt (outdoor activity) x 2
- Sort The Mess (sorting adjectives from nouns) x 1
- Beat The Snake (board game) x 1
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This is a great resource for the review and introduction of adverbs.
It contains 11 differentiated worksheets and activities that will help your children practice recognizing and using adverbs in a fun and practical way.
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Contents:
1 x Adverb Search: Finding adverbs within the sentence (highlighting)
2 x Sort It: Sorting adverbs from adjectives and their types (cut and
stick)
1 x Fix The Sentence: Inserting adverbs into sentences (cut and
stick)
2 x Space Trip: Inserting adverbs into sentences (written)
4 x Use That Adverbs: Writing sentences using adverbs (written)
1 x Board Game: Saying sentences containing adverbs
Answer Key
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Contractions Bundle (Worksheets, Pair Cards, Activities, Display Posters): Our contraction pack is everything you could need to teach contractions all in one place. From differentiated worksheets to practical activities and displays, we have it all in this 54-page pack. We hope you enjoy teaching this unit as much as we did! For the individual resources please visit our store.
Contents:
55 pages in total
1 x differentiated cut and stick activity
2 x differentiated worksheets
1 x board game
1 x set of pairs cards + activity ideas
6 x sets of contraction dominoes train
Display resources
Adjectives (Pair Cards): Adjectives have never been so easy with our set of 4 adjective pair cards. Engage your children with our fun activities either individually, as a group, or as a class and they will be Adjective Pros before you know it!
Check out our preview to see just how exciting you can make adjectives!
Contents:
- Opposites train - x1 (23 pairs)
- Opposite pair cards pack x 1 (11 pairs)
- Synonym pair cards pack x 1 (14 pairs)
- Who am I? pairs pack x 1 (17 pairs)
This activity develops letter recognition and fine motor skills as your class complete task cards by making letters of the alphabet out of natural materials.Each card comes with visual aids to support learners.
You can give out these cards and ask your class to create the suggested word using the natural material depicted in the card. You can also create your own activities using these cards.
Contents:
A – Z letter art cards
Perfect to be used as a phonics station, these fun puzzles are great for your early readers to practice matching colors to their name. This FREE pack contains 1 puzzle, however it can be differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come!
Contents:
1 x Tarsia puzzle
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English
Animal Phonics
Math
Dice Addition (1-15)
Counting to 10 - Number Recognition
Perfect to be used as a literacy station, these fun animal puzzles are great for your early readers to practice their phonics, beginning to recognise and blend simple sounds. This pack contains 5 differentiated puzzles, however it can be further differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come!
Contents:
5 x differentiated Tarsia puzzles
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A sentence fixer PowerPoint activity designed to help those children who forget the simple sentence punctuation along with some commonly mixed up homophones. The Sentence Snake has stolen some punctuation / mixed up the spellings. The children must read the sentence and see if they can find all of the errors.
It’s a great way to get your children editing their writing, learning to spot the common mistakes and improve their writing.
Contents
- Slides 1 – 10: Capital letters & full stops
- Slides 11 – 21: Apostrophise
- Slides 22 – 32: Homophones
- Slides 33 – 39: Capital letters, full stops, question marks, & exclamation marks.
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This diary writing & research project is a great way to get your class learning about and having fun with first person narrative in the form of diary writing (recounts) in the outdoors. This differentiated resource has been used very successful with grades 2 – 5 (years 3 - 6).
The children are to choose a min-beast and spend a few days finding, exploring, and researching their chosen mini-beast. They will then have great fun planning and writing a diary entry for their chosen mini-beast based around ‘a day in the life of’.
Contents:
- Teacher’s Guide
- Mini-Beast Identification Sheet
- 2 x differentiated drawing sheets
- Instructions Sheet
- Diary Extract Eample
- 2 x differentiated research templates
- 1 x Diary Writing Checklist
- 1 x planning sheet
- 2 x Differentiated writing checklists
This resource is a great way to get the children exploring the outdoor while learning about a key writing style.
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It’s time to get outside while teaching English! This outdoor literacy bundle covers instruction writing, persuasive writing, diary / recount, and poetry through fun, engaging, and practical activities. It is the perfect pack to help teach a large chunk of your English curriculum in the great outdoors.
Be it for Halloween, a literacy topic (instruction writing fits in well with this), or just for fun in the outdoors, this activity is sure to get your classes imagination flowing. Each student will plan and make their own magic potion using natural materials that they can find in your outdoor space. There are two differentiated sheets, one which gets your students to think about what they might include in their potion, the other that expands on this, getting them to think about the purpose of the potion.
Once your class have completed the planning aspect of the sheet they can go outside and start creating their potions in a small bowl, pot, jar, or anything else you can find!
Equipment needed:
Differentiated sheets
Small container
Natural resources
Spoon or equivalent (optional)
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Perfect to be used as a phonics station, these fun puzzles are great for your early readers to practice matching upper-case letters to their lower-case pair. This pack contains 5 puzzles (both in color and black & white), which can be differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come!
**Contents:
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5 x Tarsia puzzles (color and black & white)
Check out our other Tarsia Puzzles for Early Years
English
Animal Phonics
Colour Matching Freebie
Math
Dice Addition (1-15)
Counting to 10 - Number Recognition
Perfect to be used as a phonics station, these fun puzzles are great for your early readers to practice recognising initial sounds (A-Z) by pairing the letter with the initial sound picutre. This pack contains 5 puzzles (both in color and black & white background) which can be differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come!
**Contents: **
5 x Tarsia puzzles (color and black & white background)
Check out our other Tarsia Puzzles for Early Years
English
Animal Phonics
Colour Matching Freebie
Letter Matching Uppercase and Lowercase
Math
Dice Addition (1-15)
Counting to 10 - Number Recognition
This activity gets your class thinking carefully about adjectives and things that they could describe by placing the cards next to items they can find outside that match the adjective. For example, they might place ‘big’ next to a big tree. As an extension, they could then go on to use the card and the item they have found to write a sentence containing the adjective.
This activity is differentiated by the support given and the amount of input before the lesson. It may help to put your students in mixed ability groups, or for small groups to complete the activity with an adult.
Contents
Teacher’s guide
18 x adjective cards (British + American spellings)
Sentence worksheet
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Encourage your students to use all of their senses to help develop their descriptive writing.
For this activity your class need to be in pairs, where one will be blind folded and the other will safely lead them to an area in your school grounds or outdoor space (this activity is most effective when you have a variety of different places available for students to go).
The blindfolded student will then begin to describe what they can hear, smell, and touch while the other partner records what they are saying. The blind folded student will then be asked to guess where they think they are before removing the blindfold. Both students will then work together to describe and record what they can see.
Once they have finished, they can swap roles and do that activity again. Encourage students to think carefully about powerful descriptive language as they are describing the settings they have been taken to.
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Develop your class’ report writing by getting them to observe nature in the world around them. They will head outside to find an animal to produce a report on, gathering their information through close observation and research.
Once they have decided on their animal, they need to begin their research through observation, books, and the internet, recording their findings on the sheets. It is best if your students have access to magnifying glasses for this activity.
When the research is complete, they can then write their report using the templates, or create their own unique design. It is good for students to go outside and capture their own photos to use within the report.
Resources needed:
Research sheets
Differentiated template sheet
Magnifying glasses
Books / technology for research (optional)
This resource can work well in pairs where students are able to support one another.
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for your literacy skills lessons where they’ll look at the different types of punctuation. It’s a great literacy lesson starter or activity that will improve your class’ writing, reading, and comprehension without them even realising that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack includes both complete cootie catchers with all the answers filled in, as well as blank cootie catchers where the blanks must be completed before playing the game.
**Punctuation Included:
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Apostrophe
Brackets
Capital Letters
Colon
Comma
Dash
Exclamation Mark
Inverted Comma
Period
Question Mark
Semicolon
Folding and playing directions as well as B&W copies are also included.
Have fun!
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10 visual punctuation vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title and blank cards. They are a great way to help your children learn the key punctuation needed to improve their writing and reading. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language or writing difficulties. Each card contains the key punctuation, definition, and visual aid.
**Punctuation Included: **
Apostrophe
Brackets
Capital Letters
Colon
Comma
Dash
Exclamation Mark
Inverted Comma
Period
Question Mark
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This jungle animals student booklet is a great project for students to carry out research and record facts on all their favorite jungle animals. They’ll create a page for each animal with space for a picture along with a front and back cover page. It’s perfect as a personal project or extension activity if you’re doing a jungle topic.
This pack comes in both color and black and white as well as a blank template.
To create the booklet, cut each A4 page in half, hole punch the top corner, and use some string or treasury tags to hold them together.
Animals included:
DART FROG
ELEPHANT
GORILLA
GREEN ANACONDA
JAGUAR
ORAGUTAN
SCARLET MACAW
THREE-TOED SLOTH
TIGER
LEOPARD
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