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Full time primary teacher and self-taught digital creator, creating resources for my classroom since 2016.
Don't forget to rate / review anything you download or purchase.
Key ‘I can…’ statements for the English National Curriculum in Reading for Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2). Typed onto books for use on reading area displays.
For best results, print out and laminate or print directly onto good quality cardstock.
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PRINTABLE word mat to accompany teaching on Superworm by Julia Donaldson.
Used with Reception children to write sentences containing adjectives to describe a worm.
Print and laminate this resource to use with LKS2 children to accompany teaching Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit. Sentence starters are separated into the five senses.
Word mat designed for use to help LKS2 pupils to write a character description of George’s Grandma in George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl.
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Sentence Starter mat designed for use to help LKS2 pupils to write a character description of George’s Grandma in George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl.
Download this PDF, then print and laminate this word mat for your own use.
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Stone Age Word Mat to accompany teaching on Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura. Words separated into senses and atmosphere. Created to support teaching in a Year 3 (2nd Grade) class.
PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Autumn 1 booklet
Week 1: ay/ai
Week 2: ea/ee
Week 3: igh/ie
Week 4: ow/oa
Week 5: long oo/ew/ue
Week 6: short oo/o
Autumn 2 booklet
Week 1: al/ar
Week 2: or/au/aw
Week 3: air/are
Week 4: ir/ur/er
Week 5: ou/ow
Week 6: oi/oy
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PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Spring 1 booklet
Week 1: split diagraphs a_e/e_e
Week 2: split diagraphs i_e/o_e
Week 3: split diagraph u_e (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 4: ire (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 5: ear/ure
Week 6: al/le
Week 7: short ou (/u/)
Spring 2 booklet
Week 1: y making the /i/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 2: ey/e
Week 3: sure/ture
Week 4: ei/ey
Week 5: ch making the /k/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 6: que/gue
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PDF download of a spelling booklet used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Summer 1 booklet
Week 1: ff/ph
Week 2: sc/c
Week 3: cious/tious
Week 4: tion/sion
Week 5: wh/wr
Summer 2 booklet
Week 1: prefix re-
Week 2: prefix dis-
Week 3: prefix mis-
Week 4: suffix -ly
Week 5: suffix -er
Week 6: homophones
NB: As Summer 2 booklet is all one sound per week the Wednesday activity is a wordsearch not sound sort.
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Contents of the bundle include:
Escape From Pompeii PRINTABLE Sentence Starter Mat KS2 (katie_wlknsn)
Escape From Pompeii PRINTABLE Word Mat KS2 (katie_wlknsn)
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Resources accompany teaching on Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit.
Word mats require printing for use.
PDF downloads.
2 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on The Dark by Lemony Snicket. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 2 weeks
1 document containing written tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Monday – Prediction
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Other VIPERS skills (one focus skill per week)
Friday – Summarising
Weekly skills focus:
Week 1: Vocabulary
Week 2: Inference
2 weeks worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne. Lessons were planned and delivered to LKS2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 5 lessons a week for 2 weeks
Individual documents containing the written tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
Week 1:
Monday - Prediction
Tuesday & Wednesday - Retrieval based on Voice 1
Thursday & Friday - Vocabulary based on Voice 2
Week 2:
Monday & Tuesday - Inference based on Voice 3
Wednesday & Thursday - Explaining based on Voice 4
Friday - Summarising
PDF download of 6 spelling activity booklets used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.
Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.
Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)
Sounds covered in spellings:
Autumn 1 booklet
Week 1: ay/ai
Week 2: ea/ee
Week 3: igh/ie
Week 4: ow/oa
Week 5: long oo/ew/ue
Week 6: short oo/o
Autumn 2 booklet
Week 1: al/ar
Week 2: or/au/aw
Week 3: air/are
Week 4: ir/ur/er
Week 5: ou/ow
Week 6: oi/oy
Spring 1 booklet
Week 1: split diagraphs a_e/e_e
Week 2: split diagraphs i_e/o_e
Week 3: split diagraph u_e (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 4: ire (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 5: ear/ure
Week 6: al/le
Week 7: short ou (/u/)
Spring 2 booklet
Week 1: y making the /i/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 2: ey/e
Week 3: sure/ture
Week 4: ei/ey
Week 5: ch making the /k/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 6: que/gue
Summer 1 booklet
Week 1: ff/ph
Week 2: sc/c
Week 3: cious/tious
Week 4: tion/sion
Week 5: wh/wr
Summer 2 booklet
Week 1: prefix re-
Week 2: prefix dis-
Week 3: prefix mis-
Week 4: suffix -ly
Week 5: suffix -er
Week 6: homophones
NB: As Summer 2 booklet is all one sound per week the Wednesday activity is a wordsearch not sound sort.
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11 lessons of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Wild by Emily Hughes. Lessons were planned and delivered to KS1 (Year 2) classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Sequencing.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 11 lessons
Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
1- Retrieval
2- Inference
3- Vocabulary
4- Inference
5- Summarising
6- Sequencing
7- Summarising
8- Explaining
9- Explaining
10- Summarising
11- Summarising
Tasks include:
Creating an emotion graph
Drawing a picture of the character from a description
Writing a letter to the character
and MORE
12 lessons worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Cinderella by Susanna Davidson. Lessons were planned and delivered to mixed ability Year 2 classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 12 lessons.
Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons.
The lesson sequence is as follows:
1- Vocabulary
2- Inference
3- Inference
4- Explain
5- Retrieval
6- Explain
7- Explain
8- Retrieval
9- Vocabulary
10- Vocabulary
11- Prediction
12-Summarising
Tasks include:
Finding definitions in a dictionary, sequencing events in the story, writing speech and feelings for characters, ordering vocabulary by shades of meaning, and MORE.
11 lessons worth of Guided Reading tasks and accompanying question slides based on Coming Home by Michael Morpurgo. Lessons were planned and delivered to KS1 (Year 2) mixed ability classes.
Lessons were created to explicitly teach each of the 5 vipers skills: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explaining, Retrieval, and Summarising.
Pack contains:
1 complete slideshow containing 11 lessons
Individual documents containing tasks for each of the lessons
The lesson sequence is as follows:
1- Explaining
2- Vocabulary
3- Inference
4- Vocabulary
5- Explaining
6- Retrieval
7- Retrieval
8- Explaining
9- Explaining
10- Inference
11- Sequencing
Tasks include:
Creating images using words and phrases from the text
Ordering words by their shades of meaning
Sequencing pictures form the story