A great resource to help children improve their writing. Included in this bumper pack are the connectives, sentence starter, punctuation and ambitious vocabulary dice. These A4 nets can be printed out and folded up to create dice to help improve the standard of writing in a classroom . Around the outside are a range of attractive images thanks to our link with iclipart.com. These resources can be used as part of a writing game and creates many teaching opportunities which including modelling and dictionary/thesaurus skills.

With the introduction of the new spelling, grammar and punctuation test at the end of KS1 and the new National Curriculum our spelling resource is an absolute essential. This pack comes with 12 weeks of activities with a set of spelling words and three activities per week.The resource is organised around the new National Curriculum and includes: Weeks 1,3,5,7,9 and 11 10 spelling words to learn based on a spelling pattern or sound as recommended in the new National Curriculum (Year 1 program of study). Activity 1 - 10 sentences with missing words. Children to write out the sentences including the correct spelling word. (for less able children the sentence could be read out loud with the children writing the missing word) Activity 2 - Anagrams. The spelling words have been scrambled up and the children need to unscramble and then write out correctly. Activity 3 - Wordsearch. The spelling words are hidden in a wordsearch and the children need to find them. Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 10 spelling words to learn based on a spelling pattern or sound as recommended in the new National Curriculum (Year 2 program of study). Activity 1 - Definitions. Children need to match the correct spelling word with the correct definition. Activity 2 - Missing vowels. The spelling words are jumbled up and the children need to add the missing vowels to correctly spell each word. Once completed they have to write them out in alphabetical order. Activity 3 - Sentence writing challenge. A visual prompt is given and the children need to write sentences with the spelling words included. If the less able find this task too difficult then there are suggestions of alternative activities in the notes section of the PowerPoint presentation (not on PDF) Each activity is designed to take between 10 and 30 minutes and can either be built into the curriculum or given as homework activities. The spelling words and activities are aimed at children in years 1/2 and can be completed on paper or in books. These activities are provided in both PDF and PowerPoint format so they can be displayed on a whiteboard or printed out. Each page is decorated with a playful Clipart image thanks to our license with Clipart.com,

With the introduction of the new Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling test for pupils in year 2 it is now vitally important that grammar is taught throughout KS1 This pack comes with 12 weeks of activities with five activities per week. These include activities which are linked to all aspects of the new grammar National Curriculum. Each activity is only designed to take 5 minutes which means these activites are perfect to complete first thing in the morning or straight after lunch. Built up over the term the children will become grammar experts! These activities are aimed at children in years 1/2 and can be completed on paper or in books. These activities are provided in both PDF and PowerPoint format so they can be displayed on a whiteboard or printed out. Each page is decorated with a playful Clipart image thanks to our license with Clipart.com

An essential resource for any primary classroom teaching the new National Curriculum. This display pack contains the follow: 1 x A4 Title page (with red border) 6 x A4 definition posters explaining what alliteration is (with blue border) 13 x posters/vocabulary giving examples of alliteration (with purple border) 6 x A4 posters asking questions (with green border)

An essential resource for any primary classroom teaching the new National Curriculum. This display pack contains the follow: 1 x A4 Title page (with red border) 6 x A4 definition posters explaining what an antonym is including defintiions of graded and complementary antonyms (with blue border) 10 x A4 posters giving examples of both graded and complementary antonyms (with purple border) 4 x A4 posters asking questions about antonyms (with green border) 2 x Vocabulary cards (two cards per A4 sheet) showing the vocabulary 'graded' and 'complementary.'

An essential resource for any primary classroom teaching the new National Curriculum. This display pack contains the follow: 1 x A4 Title page (with red border) 5 x A4 definition posters explaining what a metaphor is (with blue border) 9 x A4 posters giving examples of metaphors (with purple border) 6 x A4 posters asking questions about metaphors including find a word to complete a sentence (with green border) 2 x Vocabulary cards showing how sentences with metaphors can be constructed (with yellow border) 1 x A4 Poster with 10 examples of metaphors within a sentence. These examples are different to those shown in the purple bordered posters above. Great to use as a vocabulary mat (with yellow border)

A simple but highly effective resource to aid reading. Enclosed on this posters are 'I can' statements linked to the Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 new reading National Curriculum. Year 3/4 - 1x A4 poster Year 5/6 - 2 x A4 posters The posters are colourfully designed and includes a playful clipart image - thanks to our link to iClipart.

An essential resource for any primary classroom teaching the new National Curriculum. This display pack contains the follow: 1 x A4 Title page (with red border) 4 x A4 definition posters explaining what a simile is (with blue border) 9 x A4 posters giving examples of similes (with purple border) 5 x A4 posters asking questions (with green border) 2 x Vocabulary cards showing how sentences with similes can be constructed (with yellow border) 1 x A4 Poster with 20 similes listed all on one page. Great to use as a vocabulary mat (with yellow border)

A simple but highly effective resource to aid reading. Enclosed on this bookmark are 'I can' statements linked to the Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 new reading National Curriculum. There are three bookmark to each A4 page. Each bookmark is colourfully designed and includes a playful clipart image - thanks to our link to iClipart.

This display pack contains seven different A4 adjective mats. Each mat comes with joined and pre cursive handwriting. The mats include adjectives for Bad feelings Good feelings People Time Size Objects Taste The resource is colourfully designed and can be used as a display item or as a word bank on the table.

This pack includes guided reading plans for the following text: Bill's New Frock by Anne Fine (years 4/5) In total there are 7 guided reading lesson plans, covering each of the chapters in the book. Each plan contains a 'reading and responding to the text' activity which is designed to be completed with the class teacher with the reading group. There are then follow up independent activities which the children can then complete during the remainder of the week. All of these activities are closely linked to each of the reading assessment focuses and these are listed at the beginning of each plan. Each plan also has a list of difficult words which the children can check the meaning of before the teacher led session, space to list the names of the children who are working on the text and a space for a teacher notes and evaluation. The plans have been written by an experienced primary school teacher and have been tried and tested in the classroom.

This pack includes guided reading plans for the following text: The Man whose Mother was a Pirate (years 2/3) In total there are 3 guided reading lesson plans, covering each of the chapters in the book. Each plan contains a 'reading and responding to the text' activity which is designed to be completed with the class teacher with the reading group. There are then follow up independent activities which the children can then complete during the remainder of the week. All of these activities are closely linked to the new National Curriculum objectives and these are listed at the beginning of each plan. Each plan also has a list of difficult words which the children can check the meaning of before the teacher led session, space to list the names of the children who are working on the text and a space for a teacher notes and evaluation. The plans have been written by an experienced primary school teacher and have been tried and tested in the classroom.

A special monster pack of our 'Can you describe me' range.A great resource to help with the teaching of descriptive writing. Included in this pack are 10 x A4 posters each showing a different monster like character. Around the outside of the character are a number of key questions to help the child describe the character. All images provided thanks to our link with iclipart.com

These A4 differentiated word vocabulary mats are an essential tool for any child and would be perfect laminated and stored in boxes in the middle of the table. The mat focuses on writing a persuasive letter. The mat gives helpful sentence starters for the beginning, middle and end of the letter as well as possible adverbs and adjectives that could be used. There is also an example of a persuasive letter that the children can use to uplevel or improve their own piece of writing. The attached images show each mat but each pack includes: Mat 1 for the less able pupils (one A4 sheet) Mat 2 for the middle ability pupils (one A4 sheet) Mat 3 for higher ability pupils (on A4 sheet) Mat 4 - an example of a model persuasive letter (could be laminated back to back with one of the above mats) The resource is colourfully designed with the colours linked to the language through colour system. However any child can use these mats regardless of whether they are using this system.

A great resource to support the teaching of different reading skills. These can be printed into cards and laminated for children to use but also printed larger to use as posters for the classroom. This pack focuses on the skills of summarising, predicting, identifying the meanings of unknown words or phrases and creating and answering higher order questions about a non fiction text. This resource can be used with any information text. Included in this pack are: 1 x Teacher's Guide Card 4 x Role Posters (Summariser, Word Finder, Predictor, Question Master) 1 x Summariser Worksheet 1 x Word Finder Worksheet 1 x Predictor Worksheet 14 x Question Master Cards with a range of different higher order questions which can be used with any information text. The posters are colourful, attractively designed and contain fun clipart images thanks to our link with clipart.com

Three different resources to display the 45 high frequency words.

A simple but effective resource idea for any Early Years or KS1 classroom. Enclosed in this pack are 26 A4 posters showing every letter of the alphabet. Note that for ‘x’ the image of a fox is included with the ‘x’ underlined.