Teaching and Learning Resources for Early Learners and KS1
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Looking for something original? Here are some Resources for Early Learners and Key Stage 1 that you won't have used before. There are also some Key Stage 2 and a variety of SEND resources.
Alphabet, Phonics, Speaking and Listening, Reading & Writing Activities and a range of topic resources. Worksheets, flashcards, activities, PPTs, quiz games and posters are all included.
Most images licenced from graphicsfactory.com and symbols are licenced from Boardmaker.
Looking for something original? Here are some Resources for Early Learners and Key Stage 1 that you won't have used before. There are also some Key Stage 2 and a variety of SEND resources.
Alphabet, Phonics, Speaking and Listening, Reading & Writing Activities and a range of topic resources. Worksheets, flashcards, activities, PPTs, quiz games and posters are all included.
Most images licenced from graphicsfactory.com and symbols are licenced from Boardmaker.
12 pictures for children to colour in and talk about showing popular things that they can or like to do.
Children can trace over the key words or write them. Those that can, can write a sentence about the pictures.
12 colour cards to cut out and laminate.
These can be matched to the words or used to play Kim’s game.
Start by using 2 or 3 cards on a tray or table - let the children look at them carefully. Then take one away and see if they know which one.
Repeat / differentiate with up to 12 cards to develop their memory skills.
This is a fun way to learn or consolidate phonics and key Christmas words.
There are different dice so children can match in a range of ways e.g. words to initial sounds, pictures to words and pictures to sounds.
Easy game to make - you just need scissors and copies of the sheets.
Print on thin card or paste sheets onto card.
A great resource for EYFS or KS1 to accompany your singing or nursery rhyme sessions.
Each worksheet has a different nursery or number rhyme:
One, two, three, four, five
Five little ducks
Jack and Jill
Twinkle Twinkle
Miss Polly had a dolly
10 Green bottles
I’m a little teapot
Incy Wincy Spider
Humpty Dumpty
3 Blind Mice
5 Naughty Monkeys
5 Little Speckled Frogs
Activities include sharing the rhyme, reading and adding the missing rhyming words, writing the words, colouring the pictures and adding a drawing following the instructions.
This is a fun game for children at KS1. Here, the school staff get up to silly things and the idea is to work out who does what, where, when, why and how.
Children choose a card from each of the 6 sets:
Who? e.g. Miss Cookwell and Miss Bookworm
Where? e.g., the Kitchen or the Nursery
What? e.g. changed the clock to home time or put paint on the walls and floors
Why? e.g. it was an accident or I thought it would be funny
When? e.g. during afternoon play or before the teachers meeting
How? e.g. the PE teacher helped or I wore a disguise
These are colour coded.
There is a base board where children can put or paste their 6 cards onto.
Next, they tell the story in their own words and / or write it out and share with class.
Children work well in pairs for this game.
There are lots of combinations, so the game can be played over again with different outcomes.
There is a colour card for each set that children could use to sort or make collections.
An example board is included where Miss Bookworm, the librarian went to the Head’s Office and changed the clock to home time. She did this because she thought it would be funny. The PE teacher helped Miss Bookwork and this was during afternoon play!
Links to literacy, speaking and listening, problem solving and writing.
Use these slides or posters to discuss vocabulary to do with measures.
Children can come up with their own words which can also describe the pictures.
Themes:
Huge and Tiny
Fast and Slow
Large and Small
Wide and Narrow
Tall and Short
A lovely game for EYFS and KS1 learning their sounds.
There are 12 pictures to talk about and sort into the sound groups.
Children could sort C and K or you could challenge them to sort ch, c and k sounds.
The pictures can be matched to the words and/or corresponding sounds.
Cut out and laminate for games that you can re-use.
Print out twice for more matching games.
Suitable to compliment your work on Farms, Harvest or National Faramers Day this October.
A set of 10 pages of colour flashcards showing words and pictures.
4 flashcards per page.
Pictures include animals, farm equipment and crops.
Great for matching, reading or displays.
*PCS Licenced - Boardmaker symbols.
A fun way to encourage children to speak, listen, communicate and work in teams.
This is a speaking and listening game based on Ourselves / Me and linked to Jobs/Occupation/Community.
The aim of the game is for children to describe a character in detail for the other team to locate the character on their board and give a grid reference.
Add timers for more excitement and challenge.
The full instructions are included.
There are 3 sets of card boards.
A and B show the same 20 colour pictures. These are jumbled up on Board B.
Similarly, C and D are same, as are E and F boards.
4 different designs of drawing or writing frames with Valentine Heart themed borders.
The frames come in colour and in black and white.
Page 1 - half blank for drawing and half lined for writing.
Page 2 - all blank for drawing or writing.
Page 3 - 6 thick lines for writing words, phrases or short sentences.
Page 4 - 11 thin lines for writing stories, text, poetry.
A complete set of worksheets from A to Z linked to phonics and initial sounds.
Children trace the letters, say the sounds and name the corresponding object for each letter.
Alphabet Code Breakers for your KS1 classroom: an engaging resource designed to boost literacy skills through creative challenges.
With easy-to-follow lesson planning, it offers a fresh perspective on alphabetic understanding, spelling and problem-solving.
The planning outlines 9 activity ideas and gives step by step guidance, objectives and resources needed. Activities include ‘Creating your own Alphabet Code’ and a ‘Code Gallery Walk’.
Add pencils and you are ready to go.
There are 4 CVC words for each set for children to learn to sound, read and spell.
Next they can cut out the letters for each word and make them or match to the coloured boards.
5 activity sheets.
3 CVC sheets and 1 of each of the others.
Children can sound out, read, cut and match the words and pictures.
Pictures are black and white and can be coloured in.
Links to Phonics and Letters and Sounds Work.
A set of phonics worksheets for KS1,
7 worksheets where children work out which pictures belong to which sounds.
Sounds:
ch wh sp tr st pr cr sk pl cl sl gr bl sm gl sc fl fr dr br sh
Children can colour in the pictures and draw a line to the correct sound or write the sound or word under / next to the pictures.
A complete alphabet of plants we eat.
There are 3 cards and pictures for each letter of the alphabet showing the lower case letter, upper case letter and the word.
Cut and laminate the cards and they can be used over and again for different purposes including displays, flashcards, matching games and phonics work.
There are lots of foods children will be familiar with and some more unusual ones.
This resource contains images of activity ideas.
These activity ideas can support children with handwriting and fine motor control.
They give the staff or parents working with the children ideas too which are sometimes hard to find or come up with.
8 sets of colour activity card sets are included here.
These cover:
Fine motor isolation skills e.g. using a finger to finger paint
Releases e.g. adding a brick to a tower and releasing
Grasps e.g. pincer or spherical
Hand and finger manipulation e.g. working with puppets
Hand strengthening e.g. cutting out or pouring
Hand Eye coordination e.g. target work or threading
Left/Right awareness e.g. following directions
Crossing the midline e.g. tennis or finger rhymes
Each set of cards is a different colour so that staff and children can identify the skills they are or need to work with/on.
The cards can be cut out and used for labels for collections of fine motor skills activities.
They can be used on a choosing board for children to have a say in their own learning and activities.
An assessment sheet designed to find out how your pupils feel about reading. There are boxes to fill in such as my favourite book and words /phrases to tick off such as:
Reading is amazing / a chore / interesting /cool.
The second template has only the title and pupils can fill in the rest for themselves.
Link to any celebrations around books or special reading days/weeks.
2 assessment sheets to assess phonics / spelling.
Children sound out the words and write the missing sounds underneath the black and white pictures.
There is a blank template included.