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Exploratory Talk Mat - 2 levels
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Exploratory Talk Mat - 2 levels

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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.
History Talk Cards
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History Talk Cards

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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
Talk Like a Writer ORACY cards
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Talk Like a Writer ORACY cards

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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
KS1 Spelling bundle
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KS1 Spelling bundle

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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!
Challenge Us Door Cards NEW DESIGN
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Challenge Us Door Cards NEW DESIGN

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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!
Writing to INFORM bundle of supports
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Writing to INFORM bundle of supports

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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
Creative Writing Story Teller Templates
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Creative Writing Story Teller Templates

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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.
Geography Vocab booklet
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Geography Vocab booklet

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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!
Daily Planner sheets
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Daily Planner sheets

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5 designs offering Monday-Friday planning 1 PDF Version if you want to print and hand write on 1 Word Version if you want to type your week out
KS2 and KS1 reading focus cards
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KS2 and KS1 reading focus cards

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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.