<p>If helpful, please consider donating a book to my class! <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/32HP9Q274WJ4K?ref_=wl_share" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/32HP9Q274WJ4K?ref_=wl_share</a></p> <p>A handy blank map. You can edit the features you wish your pupils to add. I used with the ‘Wet and Dry bits’ game from Mape to practise the locations and names of the oceans and continents.<br /> Now updated to include Antarctica and working link, and a more complex version for KS2 that includes lines of latitude and longitude, hemispheres and prime meridian.</p>

These resources were free to download from the Brighton and Hove site, which has been decomissioned. I know that lots of Year 2 teachers have been looking for these excellent resources and wanted to share them. Please note that Brighton and Hove are the original source. The rest of the resources are in Riddles planning and resources part 2: http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Riddles-planning-and-resources-part-2-6206858/

Planning for pupil progress resource. Improving achievement in Maths: helping children move from level 3 to level 4. A very useful document from the DSCF that is no longer available to download or order. I hope sharing it here will be useful. It identifies where children's weaknesses are and how you can address them to move them on to Level 4. Have also added a website that has a live version of these resources.

DCSF publication about overcoming barriers and moving children from a level 2 to 3 in maths. Have shared since you can no longer acquire the CDs - they are apparently obsolete. Have added a link to a live website version. New - L3 to L4 now uploaded http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Overcoming-Barriers-Level-3-to-Level-4-Maths-6099105/

<p>If useful, please consider buying my class a book! <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/32HP9Q274WJ4K?ref_=wl_share" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/32HP9Q274WJ4K?ref_=wl_share</a><br /> Inspired by sentence stacking, this planning follows the Write Stuff plans for Stone Age Boy for Year 3. I plan to use the powerpoint each day, (with the Jane Considine symbols for each day added on to the powerpoint and stickers) as we do the sentence stacking or experience days, and use the stickers on the left hand side of English books, as we jot our vocabulary and ideas.<br /> The model sentences and more detail can be found in The Write Stuff plan.</p>

One side shows a selection of high frequency words in alphabetical order, and the other shows reminders of punctuation pyramid, connectives, presenting a sentence, interesting colour adjectives and a selection from the child's targets e.g. read your work through, use commas to pause. I laminated these mats back to back, and asked children to check through their work and tick with a whiteboard pen before coming to show me they were finished, to try and instil an ethos of checking their work independently.

<p>Worksheet showing an outline map of the British Isles, with Manchester, Edinburgh, London, Oxford and various seaside towns marked on it. Y1 Seaside topic I used it for children to colour the coast and identify which seaside town was nearest our home town (Oxford).</p>

I made this smartbook for use during handwriting lessons, as our exercise books have two blue lines in the center, then a red line at the top and bottom for ascenders and descenders. Putting it on the smartboard makes it a bit easier to explain, and it is locked so you can write over it and then rub out with no problems.<br /> Updated with a newer version of smart notebook!

Two sheets of simple subtraction word problems using a variety of vocabulary, mainly TU - TU but with some 3 digit numbers. I used with low ability Year 4. The first page is slightly harder than the second page. I printed the appropriate sheet off for each group, cut them up and let the children choose which questions they wanted to stick in their book, draw a numberline for and answer - very motivating as they tried to be the one who had answered the most!

<p>Has pictures of different containers (a mug, a pool, a bucket) for children to order from smallest to largest capacity, and pictures of the same container full, empty and at stages inbetween for them to label.</p> Updated to include the interactive whiteboard I used in my Y1 capacity lessons.

Cloze sheet with a choice of verbs e.g. climbed/climbing, walked / walking. Children have to pick the right one and fill in the gap. e.g. Kipper likes .................... trees. Illustrated with ORT pictures to help. I used for the more able half of my Year 1 class.

<p>I did a lesson on touch as part of a series on senses. Included is my lesson plan. To include a child who had severe communication difficulties, I took a photo of all the objects that might be in the feely bag, so when other children described them, he could touch the relevant picture. Turned out to be useful for all my LA children as they found it easier to match a description to an object when they could see different options.</p>

A simple map - based on an activity from TES but adapted with common town features laid out on a simple grid, suitable for giving directions, bee-bots, instructions in english or another language. Can be re-labelled or imgaes changed to suit your town.

Ten sentences with a long i sound word missing. I used with the top half of my year 1 class, and they all seemed to like it. Includes some Oxford Reading Tree characters but you could get rid of these.

Smart notebook versions of some Oxford Reading Tree poems, including one on the senses called I like which is very simpe and easy to make up actions for, and a smells poem. Now updated with the most recent version of smart notebook and a powerpoint version, as somepeople could not open the first 2 files.

A worksheet showing a grid divided into 4, 10, 20 and 100, to find the equivalent of half with quarters, tenths, twentieths and hundredths. I used this in Year 4 as a precursor to looking at decimals, tenth and hundredths, as well as to correct some misconceptions with lower ability Year 6 children.

A collection of ideas I have used in Year 2 to encourage children to check their work for full stops! Includes Full Stop Spotter Badges.

(Made in response to parent queries) Letters and Sounds HFw, Regular and Tricky words, sorted (subjectively!) into order of difficulty. Children then took home either one or both sets. I changed the blurb at the top for each set.

A simple grid showing different animals in places in the zoo. We worked in pairs to guide our friend to a particular animal, using up, down, left and right. In Year 2, I added a compass to the sheet and we wrote directions using north, south, east and west, which led on to owrk with bee-bots.

Judith Nicholls poem A seedy story, about a seed growing. Also a writing framework i used with my lower ability which is a simple version of the poem with some adjectives removed. Children added their own adjectives, then drew a picture at the bottom.

<p>A very simple worksheet (2 levels) to record after a discussion about the differences between a human and a doll. My Year 1 class enjoyed it, and it lead on to generalisations about living things.</p>