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We have been sharing teaching ideas, classroom activities and display resources online since 1998. Our sites are visited by millions of teachers, educators and parents every year and our teaching materials are in use in classrooms around the world every day. We hope that our ideas and resources to you. Feel free to visit our websites: Teaching Ideas - http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ Teaching Packs - http://www.teachingpacks.co.uk/ ... and contact us if you have any questions.

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We have been sharing teaching ideas, classroom activities and display resources online since 1998. Our sites are visited by millions of teachers, educators and parents every year and our teaching materials are in use in classrooms around the world every day. We hope that our ideas and resources to you. Feel free to visit our websites: Teaching Ideas - http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ Teaching Packs - http://www.teachingpacks.co.uk/ ... and contact us if you have any questions.
Measuring Lines - Activity Resource
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Measuring Lines - Activity Resource

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Give your children practice measuring lines with these printable activity sheets. Four sheets are included. These feature horizontal and diagonal lines and require children to measure in centimetres and millimetres. Please ensure that the document is printed at 100% on A4 paper to ensure the lines are the correct measurements. Answers are included on the final page. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Label the Eye - Poster and Differentiated Matching Activity
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Label the Eye - Poster and Differentiated Matching Activity

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Help your children to learn about the human eye with this printable poster and matching activity. Print the posters and add them to your classroom display boards (or let children use them as a reference resource) or challenge your students to match the labels to the different parts of the eye. Two versions are included (with and without descriptions) for use with children of different ages / abilities. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Ancient Greece Word Mat
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Ancient Greece Word Mat

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A handy printable mat that includes a selection of words linked to Ancient Greece. Use it as a classroom display resource or a reference mat on your children’s tables. Includes the following words and images: * Parthenon / temple / Acropolis, * Minoan / Mycenaean, * Olympia / Olympic Games, * god / goddess / Zeus / Hera / Hades / Underworld, * pottery / amphora, * theatre / play / comedy / tragedy / mask * Athens / Troy / Sparta / city-state … and more! Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Puzzling Pictures - Inference and Deduction Resource
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Puzzling Pictures - Inference and Deduction Resource

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This popular resource includes 20 high quality images for your children to explore. Each picture has a set of related questions to help your students review their inference and deduction skills. Use them as an independent / group classroom activity, during your guided reading sessions or as part of your English display boards. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Similes and Metaphors - Reference Mat
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Similes and Metaphors - Reference Mat

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A handy reference mat that your children can use when they are learning about similes and metaphors. This mat helps children to remember the meaning of each term and includes lots of examples that can be used in their writing. Use it as a whole class teaching tool and challenge students to use one of the examples in a sentence / paragraph… or let children use these as reference mats on their tables during independent writing. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Christmas Present Maths - Area and Perimeter Problems
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Christmas Present Maths - Area and Perimeter Problems

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A festive resource that your children can use to review their area and perimeter skills! Two versions are included with rectangles and compound shapes. Differentiated versions of each are also included with gridlines or measurements. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Punctuation Mats
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Punctuation Mats

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Help your children to review their knowledge of different types of punctuation with our colourful Punctuation Mats! Add them to a classroom display board or use them as reference mats on students’ tables. Three versions are included with different terminology for those who use the terms speech marks / inverted commas / quotation marks and full stops / periods. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Recount Writing Posters
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Recount Writing Posters

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Teach your children about all aspects of writing a recount with our eye catching posters. They’re perfect for showing on an interactive whiteboard as part of whole class teaching or on your classroom display boards. Includes information on: * What is recount writing? * Who do we write recounts for? * Types of recount writing, * Organisation, * Chronological Order, * First or Third Person? * Using the Past Tense, * Connectives and Conjunctions, * Personal or Impersonal? * How to improve your recounts. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Types of Poems - Classroom Display Posters
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Types of Poems - Classroom Display Posters

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A set of ten posters that give information about (and examples of) different types of poems that your children may encounter. These include: * Acrostic * Cinquain * Haiku * Limerick * List Poem * Narrative Poem * Nursery Rhyme * Shape Poem * Sonnet * Tanka Use the resources on a classroom display board or use them as the starting point for discussions about types of poetry. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Animal / Plant Adaptations - Matching Resource
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Animal / Plant Adaptations - Matching Resource

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Help your children to learn how animals and plants are adapted to their habitat with this matching activity! This resource includes eight pages. Each page includes an image of a particular animal / plant, its name and four ways that it is adapted to its environment. Cut out the cards on each page and jumble them up. Then ask your children to match them together again! Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Maya Maths Challenges
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Maya Maths Challenges

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Help your children to learn about the Maya and practise their Maths skills at the same time! This resource includes images of Maya numbers from 0 to 20 and two pages of Maths calculations (with twenty questions on each) to challenge your children. A fantastic resource to combine this fascinating history topic with your Maths work! Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Olympics Maths Challenges
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Olympics Maths Challenges

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A collection of 40 Olympic-themed Maths challenges to use with your children! Print out the cards and let your children use them as part of independent or group Maths activities. You could also make an interactive Olympics Maths display board! Includes answers for teachers / self-checking and an answer sheet on which your students can record their answers. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
TripReviewers - Recount Writing Template
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TripReviewers - Recount Writing Template

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Ask your children to write a ‘review’ of a place they have visited during school holidays / weekends with our ‘TripReviewers’ templates. You could also use it to review the destination of a recent school visit / trip. Six different templates are included so that you can use them with children of different ages and abilities. A fantastic way of encouraging children to demonstrate their recount writing skills. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Fairytale Character Puppets
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Fairytale Character Puppets

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This resource includes a selection of printable characters / puppets based on popular children’s fairytales. These include: * The Elves and the Shoemaker, * Goldilocks and the Three Bears, * Jack and the Beanstalk, * The Gingerbread Man, * The Three Billy Goats Gruff, * The Three Little Pigs. Your children can colour the characters, cut them out and then use them for their own storytelling activities. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Famous Tudors - Classroom Posters
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Famous Tudors - Classroom Posters

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This resource includes a collection of posters that share information about twenty-four different people from Tudor times. They could be used as part of independent / group research tasks or on a classroom display. Could your children carry out further research about one of the people and create a report based on them? Could they think of different ways of sorting / grouping the people? Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Fire Safety - Poster and Activity Template
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Fire Safety - Poster and Activity Template

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This resource can be used to teach your children about fire safety. Share the poster on a classroom display board or use it as a whole class teaching tool on your interactive whiteboard. Two versions are available (using 999 / 911 emergency numbers) and a blank template is also included so that your children can add their own fire safety information. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Shakespearean Phrases - Matching Activity
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Shakespearean Phrases - Matching Activity

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Challenge your students to match these Shakespearean phrases with their meanings. Sixteen different phrases are included with their meanings. Cut them out, jumble them up and ask your students to match them back together again! Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Diwali Fact File
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Diwali Fact File

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Teach your children about Diwali with this handy fact file. This PDF page could be used on a large display as a whole class teaching tool, on a classroom display board or as a reference mat on tables. Children could also use it for independent research. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
British Values - Vocabulary Matching Cards
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British Values - Vocabulary Matching Cards

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Help your children to learn key vocabulary related to British Values with this matching activity. This resource includes thirty vocabulary cards with thirty matching definitions. Can your children match them together to review their understanding of British Values? Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
The History of Computers - Posters
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The History of Computers - Posters

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A selection of posters that show some of the key events in the history of computers. Includes references to Charles Babbage, Konrad Zuse, Alan Turing, the first portable computer, the first computer virus, the invention of the World Wide Web and more! Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!