Simple plan template for children to plan a story before writing it.

Questions which can be used for any text to get children thinking about the story after they have read it. Can be filled in my HA or scribed for LA. Makes for good assessment at the end of a story focus. Have stuck into their Literacy books.

Stories by the same author. Different sentences/phrases typed up from Julia Donaldson books: A squash and a squeeze, Sharing a shell and Follow the Swallow. My class really enjoyed spliting them into groups. SOme chose 'people, animal, object&' others chose to group sentences according to punctuation or language. They were allowed to chose whether to use a venn diagram (hoops on floor) or large carroll diagrams I made up. I used this as a start for thinking about similarities and differences in books by the same author.

Investigation done on the length of the pencils in year 1, we then collated the data onto these tally charts.

Pictures of old toys with key vocab

Draw and label two monsters. I then used this to write a character description used for fictional writing assessment.

Empty, simple reading target sheet can be printed and stuck in the front of each child's reading folder in order to keep a log of how quickly they are meeting targets. I hope you find the resource useful, Please leave feedback and I’ll upload more work.

Write a recount of Barnaby's trip to Africa - Literacy link. Differentiated

Used for lesson ob, goes with worksheets and powerpoint also available on my resources.

Multiple sets of four questions for AA to answer independently on Easter Egg paper (also uploaded)

Split diagraph i_e can be adapted, bike, like etc.

Halving worksheet that can be easily differentiated by changing the main numbers. Children draw dots into two boxes that total the main number, then count how many dots are in one box.

Write a Barnaby Bear recount - differentiated three ways. Follow the Africa Barnaby Bear Powerpoint.

Cut and stick metals into one group and plastics into another. Simple activity to use early on in the Materials topic to help distinguish between different materials. Good for discussion and introducing new vocab.

Cut and stick activity to sort pictures that do and don't turn about a point. An introduction to the concept. Differentiation stated on top of the sheet.

A simple question sheet to assess children's Numeracy knowledge and find any gaps. Some questions children complete on sheet some require additional resources. Gives a good understanding of where children are at. Hope it's helpful! Please leave feedback.

Plans for Letters and Sounds Phase 5

After discussion with teacher, write why the day is celebrated. Children then have opportunity to design a hat for St. Patrick's Day.

Thinking about how Diwali is celebrated, where it is celebrated and why.

Here are some normal and some silly sentences. Children work together to sort them into silly and non-silly.