Print and laminate, back to back meaning you have a slightly less complex card and a more challenging one. The cards offer sentence stems to support exploratory discussions - whole class and small group/ paired - across the curriculum.
These cards are ideal to support children as they learn through talk, allowing for high quality discussions.
These cards are NOT editable. Simply print, laminate and then you can add you topic specific vocabulary on the empty boxes provided - allowing them to be used in any unit of work.
2 levels of support - cards numbered
Sentence stems to support high quality conversations about writing - both for self assessment and peer assessment.
Print back to back and laminate for a key resource to have to hand in the classroom. These cards go with the other cards in the ‘talk like a …’ set
2 levels of complexity. Set and Set 2
Spelling Challenge Cards Level 1-5
Level 1 = phase 3 CEW and HFW
Level 2 = Phase 4 CEW and HFW
Level 3 = Phase 5a
Level 4 = Phase 5b
Level 5 = Phase 5c
Each challenge card is split into bronze, silver and gold (these aren’t progressive, they just offer milestones) Children take the sheets home and practice the words. When they are confident they can spell them, the parents cut the relevant slip off the bottom and send it in to say they are ready to be tested! Teachers can test all/ a random sample of the words to validate.
Each level has bronze, silver and gold certs. Each time a child gets a cert, we offer 3 raffle tickets (in the bundle) and 2 house points (you can add your own rewards!). We will run a termly raffle to win £20!
Print to A3, laminate and pop up on classroom doors. Teachers can add facts that the children have learnt so visitors to the classroom can discuss their learning with them/ check what they have remembered.
E.g. Test us on our… 3 x table
Ask us to spell… together
Question us about… Fair Trade
See if we can remember… how the water cycle works
Use a dry wipe pen and you can keep updating through the year!
Support mats for Writing to Inform:
Card 1 - instructions
Card 2 - recount
Card 3 - recount without sentence checker
Card 4 - non-chronological report
Card 5 - non-chronological report without sentence checker
All cards come as a PDF and an editable Word document
2 templates.
The first features settings, and objects the main character may discover.
The second features main character suggestions and people/ things they may meet on their travels…
Create for oracy or creative writing activities! Homework… activities for breaktimes… etc.
Simply print pages 2 and 3 back to back and create as many pages as you want to go inside the front cover and create a booklet. Children can add key geography vocab as it is taught and carry this up through school with them as a handy reference booklet.
The page page offers some quick paired games for when there is a spare few minutes to recap and revise!
Enlarge, laminate and add to/ near your English working wall/ reading display. Use an arrow/ peg to clip next to the skill you’re focusing on in reading that week so children are always clear on the skill they are working on.