Letter to Santa Template for EYFS / KS1 in cursive

A simple sentence writing progression for each half term, to stick in the front of English books to monitor progress.

Cinderella week of literacy activities. Sequencing the story - cutting and sticking. Describing characters.

A challenge for year R and year 1 children to write a cvc word and then write it in a sentence.

Year 1 medium term plan for spellings. Tricky words, Common Exception Words and days of the week. Home sheets for each week - summer 1 and summer 2. Plan - spellings by each week for summer term.

Headings for working walls

Pastel drawer labels - for tall plastic chest of drawers (HobbyCraft). Editable labels - The colours on the labels match the pastel drawers from Hobbycraft and The Range.

Can the children independently sound out the words and write them? Could be used as a writing moderation to see if children are on track / see where they are.

Adjective challenge

Class book worksheets - differentiated. Dear Zoo

Phonics phase 2 decodable words - trash or treasure / alien and real words / real and nonsense words.

Rainbow Letter Precursive Formation Handwriting Booklet. Detailed explanation of what Rainbow Letters is and how I use the booklet within the classroom. An A-Z booklet with a page per letter. There is a large letter for children trace as well as lined space underneath for the children to practice their formation independently. I have also included the cued articulation action on each page.

Worksheet to accompany teaching of Tiddler. Can the children draw a picture of Tiddler getting stuck? How will he escape?!

Under the Sea themed worksheet. Design and describe a sea creature.

Alien school persuasive writing worksheet

Year 1 planning spring 2 - project is ‘Who is Mary Anning?’ Texts - Little people, Big dreams (Mary Anning) and Tyrannosaurs Drip English medium term plan for year 1 - following continuous provision. English - focusing on sentence structure, adjectives, suffixes, compound sentences - recapping all year 1 skills.

Year 1 Summer 1 - Project is ‘What makes the seaside the seaside?’ Texts ‘A first book of the sea and Winnie the witch goes to the beach’ English - focusing on sentence structure, adjectives, narrative writing, pronouns, verbs, conjunctions, letter writing, contractions, suffix and prefix, questions and exlcamtions.

English medium term plan - including hand writing and tuff tray ideas for continuous provision. Text - ‘Traction Man’ Project ‘How have toys change over time?’

Year 1 planning spring 2 - project is ‘Who is the longest reigning monarch?’ Texts - L is for London and Charlie and Lola in London English, maths and foundation medium term plans for year 1 - following continuous provision. English - focusing on sentence structure, adjectives, narrative writing, pronouns, verbs, conjunctions, letter writing and days of the week.

English medium term plan - with English lessons and tuff tray ideas for continuous provision. Texts - Good knight, bad knight and the dragon who swallowed a knight. Project - '‘Who is the longest reigning monarch?’ English - focusing on sentence structure, adjectives, narrative writing, pronouns, verbs, conjunctions and rhymes.