An ActivPrimary flipchart to help children with the writing of the story from the beginning to the problem to the ending. Contains butterbeer's punctuation superheroes to help with sentence ordering.

Word cards containing ch food names. Designed to be used to match up with ch food pictures once sorted. See ch foods resource. Also three yes/no questions containing ch foods.

A wordmat split into the 4 sections of VCOP. The vocabulary section is split into Settings, Pebble adjectives and Villain adjectives.

Designed to be used with drywipe pens, as a worksheet or printed 2 to a page and laminated for use with magnetic letters, graphemes on bottle tops... Words are: letter, ladder, longer, dinner, farmer, hammer, summer, fern

Weekly spellings using the phoneme /ear/. Designed to be printed double sided and stuck into a homework diary - useful for parents, so they can help with Phonics alternate graphemes. Thanks to Phonicsplay.com for the idea for the back with the Best bet for spelling.

A simple diary template for children to record what they did over the Easter weekend/holidays. Space for photos/drawings and writing.

A word mat designed to support writing about the growth cycle of a bean. Sectioned in to Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Also contains the VCOP superheroes (thanks to Butterbeer and ilovemarmite) and on the reverse has images and labels for different common beans and a diagram of the growing cycle.

Designed to be printed 2 to a page. Children can write on to spell, laminate and write with dry-wipe or use grapheme cards/written on bottle tops/stones etc to segment the words: boat, coat, goat, road, foal, goal, soap, coach. Works well as a follow-up to my /oa/ powerpoint or Green goat phonics book powerpoint.

Weekly spellings using the phoneme /air/. Designed to be printed double sided and stuck into a homework diary - useful for parents, so they can help with Phonics alternate graphemes. Thanks to Phonicsplay.com for the idea for the back with the Best bet for spelling.

Weekly spellings using the phoneme /ar/. Designed to be printed double sided and stuck into a homework diary - useful for parents, so they can help with Phonics alternate graphemes. Thanks to Phonicsplay.com for the idea for the back with the Best bet for spelling.

PowerPoint version of my previous SMART notebook file. A short introduction to describing pumpkins, both on the outside and inside. Activity inspired by A-Z Teacher Stuff (lessons atoz) to make a non fiction pumpkin book. Children to write words, phrases or sentences to describe the outside and inside of the pumpkin. Can cut orange wool and seeds to stick on the inside of the book to illustrate. Also some words on pumpkins as display title Suitable for topics on autumn and Halloween

Weekly spellings using the phoneme /ee/. Designed to be printed double sided and stuck into a homework diary - useful for parents, so they can help with Phonics alternate graphemes. Thanks to Phonicsplay.com for the idea for the back with the Best bet for spelling.

A b/w image of a bottle with a b/w treasure map inside. Role-play, literacy writing inspiration... I am planning to roll and tie up with string so children can discover!

A few pictures and vowel digraphs to assist with spelling of key words when writing the story/recount of the story.

A simple proforma for Year 4 for children when analysing TV, radio and newspaper/magazine adverts.

RWInc style flashcard for grapheme /th/ including the caption/ditty - thick and thin. Double-sided - first side has the grapheme in large text, the opposite side has a picture, caption and includes some other th words.

A word mat designed to follow the VCOP display board. Created to help pupils write a recount of a trip to Leicester Botanic Gardens. Thanks to ilovemarmite and butterbeer for the VCOP superhero images.

A new version of my 2013 safety rules in PowerPoint and pdf format

2 pages designed to be folded into a bottom opening card. Plant pot image on the front, where the riddle is written, and a line for 'I am a ...' and a box for a picture of the minibeast (that could also be labelled as an extension task!)

Images of Harold, Kiki and Derek, along with their names. A simple vowel digraph prompt with pictures to assist children in spelling key words.