I created this resource after searching for (and failing to find) something similar to suit my own UK learners. The original bundle of just 6 texts has now grown for a second time to 12 texts. I think it’s now finalised, but it still could grown again if I get struck by inspiration. All progression / structure within the document is taken from UK Government Publication “Letters and Sounds”, which organises children’s exposure to new phonemes in Phases and Sets. The document here follows this as closely as possible. Great to stretch and challenge children in Reception who have a solid application of their phonics and / or for children in Year 1 and 2 who still need to practise accessing fully decodable texts. Suits Ofsted’s renewed focus on children reading full decodable texts, matched to phonics knowledge. If you download and use this resource, I’d love it if you could take the time to leave a review.

MaVynee Betsch led a full, intriguing and varied life. Most famed for her conservationism and activism, she spent her later life educating others on race and the environment. She makes for an excellent and inspirational figure to study, and can be included as part of Black History Month to ensure children know that history is being made even now. It should also link nicely with Saving American Beach (published April 2021). This unit was designed to follow on from my “Rocket Says Clean Up” unit, but can equally stand alone. Allowing for time for editing and revision on longer pieces of work, plus the inclusion of some Early Finishers activities, this unit could easily last you 2 weeks. It includes: Biographical Information PowerPoint (as PDF) A PDF of 12 different resources: Section 1: Research Links A selection of useful websites for TEACHERS Section 2: Biography Biography Writing Sheet Section 3: American Beach Flyer Poster Template Section 4: Endangered Animal Research Research sheet / prompt 3 pages to make a booklet Section 5: Eco Friendly Choices Yes or no choices with key Section 6: Acrostic Poem 2 x Acrostic templates Section 7: True or False True or false questions about MaVynee’s life Section 8: Reading Comprehension 3-way differentiated texts and questions Section 9: Vocabulary Draw and write the meaning activity Section 10: Cryptogram Crack the code to solve the message Section 11: Wordsearch Wordsearch and answers Section 12: Crossword Crossword and answers Section 13: Colouring Sheets 3 line drawing portraits of MaVynee This unit does not include planning.

Imani Wilmot is arguably one of Jamaica’s finest and most famous female surfers. She makes for an excellent and inspirational figure to study, and can be included as part of Black History Month to ensure children know that history is being made even now. This unit was designed to follow on from my “Rocket Says Clean Up” unit, but can equally stand alone. Allowing for time for editing and revision on longer pieces of work, plus the inclusion of some Early Finishers activities, this unit could easily last you 1 to 2 weeks. It includes: Biographical Information PowerPoint (as PDF) A PDF of ten different resources: Section 1: Research Links A selection of useful websites for TEACHERS Section 2: Biography Biography Writing Sheet Section 3: Surfing Competition Poster Poster Template Section 4: Fact or Opinion Fact or Opinion Activity Section 5: Acrostic Poem 4 x Acrostic templates Section 6: Reading Comprehension 3-way differentiated texts and questions Section 7: Vocabulary Draw and write the meaning activity Section 8: Newspaper Report Template Differentiated alphabetical ordering Section 9: Design Your Own Surfboard Surfboard template Section 10: Wordsearch Wordsearch and answers Section 11: Crossword Crossword and answers This unit does not include planning.

A collection of 15 activities designed to accompany a book study on Nathan Bryon’s Rocket Says Clean Up. This unit is perfect if you are looking to study books which have more representative and culturally diverse main characters. I will be following this unit up soon with another couple of linked units of work on two inspirational women who would be perfect to study for Black History Month: Imani Wilmot (Jamaican female surfer) and a unit of work on MaVynee Betsch (aka The Beach Lady) whose grandfather founded American Beach, and who campaigned tirelessly for conservation efforts. Featuring a variety of reading and whole story activities, word-level activities, and text writing activities, as detailed below: Section 1: Prediction Adult Instructions Prediction Sheet Section 2: Sequence Differentiated Sequencing Sheets (8, 6 and 4 parts) Section 3: Reading Comprehension Differentiated Reading Comprehension (written and tick the box) Section 4: True or False True or False Activity Section 5: Rocket Character Profile Character Profile Sheet Section 6: Character Traits Antonyms with Prefixes and Suffixes Section 7: Spelling Dictation Frequently misspelled words dictation (differentiated) Section 8: Alphabetic Order Differentiated alphabetical ordering Section 9: Syllables Syllable Clap and Count Syllable Cube Count Section 10: Vocabulary Draw and write the meaning activity Section 11: Cause and Effect Picture clue and write a sentence about the effect Section 12: Retell Lined, bordered paper for retelling Section 13: Postcard Home Postcard template Section 14: Keep It Clean Poster Poster template Section 15: Newspaper Report Newspaper template Please note, this unit is not inclusive of planning, nor does it include the book. It is a set of resources designed for you to teach to / pitch to as you see fit.

Motivational & inspirational! Expand your children’s vocabulary, boost their moral, bond them as a team… This class has got: GRIT HOPE ZEST PRIDE POWER TALENT Check out each acronym in full in the free “Brights” pack! This PDF can be printed at varying sizes, depending on your paper selection - select one phrase to focus on per term / semester, or have them all up decorating your room! Check out my store for other design options, including: Brights *** Freebie *** Bold Black Cool Cacti Feelin’ Fruity Gorgeous Geometric Natural Neutrals Perfect Pastels Super Sealife

Motivational & inspirational! Expand your children’s vocabulary, boost their moral, bond them as a team… This class has got: GRIT HOPE ZEST PRIDE POWER TALENT Check out each acronym in full in the free “Brights” pack! This PDF can be printed at varying sizes, depending on your paper selection - select one phrase to focus on per term / semester, or have them all up decorating your room! Check out my store for other design options, including: Brights *** Freebie *** Bold Black Cool Cacti Feelin’ Fruity Gorgeous Geometric Natural Neutrals Perfect Pastels Totally Tropical

Motivational & inspirational! Expand your children’s vocabulary, boost their moral, bond them as a team… This class has got: GRIT HOPE ZEST PRIDE POWER TALENT Check out each acronym in full in the free “Brights” pack! This PDF can be printed at varying sizes, depending on your paper selection - select one phrase to focus on per term / semester, or have them all up decorating your room! Check out my store for other design options, including: Brights *** Freebie *** Bold Black Cool Cacti Feelin’ Fruity Gorgeous Geometric Natural Neutrals Super Sealife Totally Tropical

Motivational & inspirational! Expand your children’s vocabulary, boost their moral, bond them as a team… This class has got: GRIT HOPE ZEST PRIDE POWER TALENT Check out each acronym in full in the free “Brights” pack! This PDF can be printed at varying sizes, depending on your paper selection - select one phrase to focus on per term / semester, or have them all up decorating your room! Check out my store for other design options, including: Brights *** Freebie *** Bold Black Cool Cacti Feelin’ Fruity Gorgeous Geometric Perfect Pastels Super Sealife Totally Tropical

Motivational & inspirational! Expand your children’s vocabulary, boost their moral, bond them as a team… This class has got: GRIT HOPE ZEST PRIDE POWER TALENT Check out each acronym in full in the free “Brights” pack! This PDF can be printed at varying sizes, depending on your paper selection - select one phrase to focus on per term / semester, or have them all up decorating your room! Check out my store for other design options, including: Brights *** Freebie *** Bold Black Cool Cacti Feelin’ Fruity Natural Neutrals Perfect Pastels Super Sealife Totally Tropical

Motivational & inspirational! Expand your children’s vocabulary, boost their moral, bond them as a team… This class has got: GRIT HOPE ZEST PRIDE POWER TALENT Check out each acronym in full in the free “Brights” pack! This PDF can be printed at varying sizes, depending on your paper selection - select one phrase to focus on per term / semester, or have them all up decorating your room! Check out my store for other design options, including: Brights *** Freebie *** Bold Black Cool Cacti Gorgeous Geometric Natural Neutrals Perfect Pastels Super Sealife Totally Tropical

Motivational & inspirational! Expand your children’s vocabulary, boost their moral, bond them as a team… This class has got: GRIT HOPE ZEST PRIDE POWER TALENT Check out each acronym in full in the free “Brights” pack! This PDF can be printed at varying sizes, depending on your paper selection - select one phrase to focus on per term / semester, or have them all up decorating your room! Check out my store for other design options, including: Brights *** Freebie *** Bold Black Feelin’ Fruity Gorgeous Geometric Natural Neutrals Perfect Pastels Super Sealife Totally Tropical

Motivational & inspirational! Expand your children’s vocabulary, boost their moral, bond them as a team… This class has got: GRIT HOPE ZEST PRIDE POWER TALENT Check out each acronym in full in the free “Brights” pack! This PDF can be printed at varying sizes, depending on your paper selection - select one phrase to focus on per term / semester, or have them all up decorating your room! Check out my store for other design options, including: Brights *** Freebie *** Cool Cacti Feelin’ Fruity Gorgeous Geometric Natural Neutrals Perfect Pastels Super Sealife Totally Tropical

Motivational & inspirational! Expand your children’s vocabulary, boost their moral, bond them as a team… This class has got: GRIT HOPE ZEST PRIDE POWER TALENT This PDF can be printed at varying sizes, depending on your paper selection - select one phrase to focus on per term / semester, or have them all up decorating your room! Check out my store for other design options, including: Bold Black Cool Cacti Feelin’ Fruity Gorgeous Geometric Natural Neutrals Perfect Pastels Super Sealife Totally Tropical

Tricky, Awesome & Fiendish Challenges Inspired by the popular ‘Chilli Challenge’ system of rating tasks of increasing difficulty these 80+ pages of “Tricky, Awesome & Fiendish” (TAF) Challenges are perfect for Year 2 Provision, Moderation Evidence, Early Morning Work, or Early Finishers. They make a great alternative or added supplement to TAF worksheets, and can be used really practically when supplemented by your classroom resources, such as base ten, coins, shapes etc. Simply laminate / cut & laminate them and add to “Tuff Spot” trays or individual trays, and have iPads or tick lists on hand for recording your evidence. Not every single activity is a TAF, but every single Maths TAF is in there! The reason for the extra activities is that I wanted to have three levels of challenge available for EVERYTHING so that all children could get the most out of it. Each TAF has a small hashtag in the corner - feel free to disregard this, but I personally found it useful for tagging activities in apps like Tapestry, so I could search for all instances of that evidence (rather than tagging the full statement!).

I created this set because I knew I wanted something for my own classroom as the children return to a totally different kind of schooling. Many people across the internet have been talking about ideas for staying safe, staying happy and generally surviving this tricky time, for which I will be forever grateful…but I knew I very definitely wanted something visual and concrete in my classroom. Something I could refer to and the children could see, too. Something bright, fun and, above all, reassuring. Includes: “Showing You Care from a Distance” posters (x6) “Keeping Safe” posters (x6) “What can I play from so far away?” posters (x24 game suggestions) A selection of accompanying banners for if you wish to display them on your boards. If you want to sample my work, the “Showing You Care from a Distance” pack is available for free here. If you download, please consider leaving a review.

With children not being able to have any close contact, I thought these posters would be a nice reminder that we can still show we care in many different ways! I hope you and your class like them, and they bring a bit of reassurance in such an uncertain time! They are also available within my Socially Distanced Schooling pack, along with some “Keeping Safe” posters (x6), and “What can I play from so far away?” posters (x24 game suggestions), and some banners for if you wish to put them on display boards. If you use them, please consider leaving a review.

A useful mat for Year 2 children featuring many of the writing expectations needed to meet “Expected” (and some features beyond). Comes in a variety of colours of the rainbow to match your room design or table/group colours. Includes: Letter formation Writing checklist (capitals, finger spaces, phonics for spelling…etc.) Year 1 Common Exception Words Year 2 Common Exception Words Days of the week Months of the year Time word openers Story openers Prefixes Suffixes Conjunctions Contractions Punctuation Phonics families for vowels

UK Phonics Based Reading Comprehension following Letters and Sounds Phase 4. Help your kids gain confidence and fluency with Phase 4 Blends and Clusters with this fun, interactive clothes peg clip card set. This is perfect as a small group or independent activity in your Reception or Year 1 Settings (Kindergarden and Grade 1), or for use with children with Special Educational Needs. I created this resource after searching for something similar to suit my own UK learners: all progression / structure within the document is taken from UK Government Publication “Letters and Sounds”, which organises children’s exposure to new phonemes in Phases and Sets. The document here follows this as closely as possible. This set contains the following: · 20 colour image clip cards (2 per page), each consisting of 4 possible word choices. · 20 black and white versions of the above, for those who are limited in their printing options. Please download the preview file to see sample product pages. This is part of a wider range of resources which includes: · Initial Blends with L – bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl · Initial Blends with R – br, cr, dr, fr, gr, tr · Other Initial Blends – sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, tw · Final Blends 1 – ft, lb, lf, lk, lp, lt, nt · Final Blends 2 - mp, nk · Final Blends 3 – nd, pt, sk, st, xt · Three Letter Blends – Initial scr, shr, spr, str, thr & final nch · Compound Words · Polysyllabic Words It is also available as part of a full bundle of the above. If you download and use this resource, I’d love it if you could take the time to leave a review.