Fun, colourful and engaging resources created over 17 years experience as a primary school teacher. Please have a look at my free and premium resources and let me know what you think. If you like my resources, 'follow me' to find out when more become available. The more followers, the merrier!
Fun, colourful and engaging resources created over 17 years experience as a primary school teacher. Please have a look at my free and premium resources and let me know what you think. If you like my resources, 'follow me' to find out when more become available. The more followers, the merrier!
A 2 week unit plan for teaching Jack and the Beanstalk. Children are actively involved in learning - activities are differentiated and the plan is adaptable to suit the needs of your children.
Resources include:
2 week unit plan with differentiated activities
PowerPoint and PDF of the story with actions(Pie Corbett technique)
Word Cards for display
Word Mat
Giant Character Portrait Worksheet
Pictures of Giant and Villains
Sequencing Pictures
Story Sequencing Snake(Pie Corbett technique)
Storyboard Worksheet - 3 levels of differentiation
Synonyms for BIG worksheet
You might also be interested in Plants and Butterflies Plan and Resources as a Science topic.
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A set of 19 Phase 5 Phoneme Spotters. Each 'spotter' is written as a postcard and encourages children to read, recognise and find words containing a particular phoneme.
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A week long unit based on We’re Going on a Bear Hunt to use during Whole Class Reading. Ideal for Reception or Year 1.
Resources include:
Teaching Plan
National Curriculum Objectives
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A set of 18 Phase 3 Phoneme Spotters. Each 'spotter' is written as a postcard and encourages children to read, recognise and find words containing a particular phoneme.
To own a complete set of Phase 3 resources you might be interested in Phase 3 Teaching Pack
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A 43 page Power Point presentation and 9 activities to use with your new class at the start of the new school year or on transition day.
Slides include:
Would You Rather questions
Find A Friend game
Conversation Starters
Thoughts on new school year
School Tweets activity
If you like this, you might also be interested in Back to School for KS1 and KS2
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Added Powerpoint for each lesson
UPDATED WITH A LINK TO A READ ALONG VERSION OF THE STORY I’VE CREATED ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL
A week long unit based on Jasper’s Beanstalk to use during Whole Class Reading. Ideal for Reception or Year 1.
Resources include:
Teaching Plan
National Curriculum Objectives
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A great game for children to read words containing Phase 3 sounds. Just roll the dice, read a word in that row and cover it with a counter.
To own a complete set of Phase 3 resources you might be interested in Phase 3 Teaching Pack
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This is a pack of 85 activities for EYFS and KS1 to complete during lockdown over the summer months.
It contains PSHE, Science, History and English activities.
Science: a practical science topic on Plants and Butterflies.
History: re-live Victorian Seaside Holidays ending with your own picnic!
PSHE: activities to allow your child to think about themselves and how they fell about returning to school.
English: Topics based on Jack and the Beanstalk, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and lots of Summer Writing Frames to print.
Make the most of those fidget spinners and use them to help with your children's phonics. Use them for daily phonics exercises, assessment or as an intervention.
Included in this pack:
Fidget Spinner Phonemes - Phase 3, 4 and 5
Fidget Spinner Phonics Words - Phase 3, 4 and 5
Fidget Spinner Tricky Words - Phase 3, 4 and 5
Fidget Spinner Alien Words
You might also be interested in Phase 5 Teaching Pack and Phase 3 Teaching Pack</>
Why not have a go at Fidget Spinner Maths
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A pack of 15 fun summer writing activities to keep everyone amused on those hot days summer days!
The pack includes:
Word Mat
Summer Writing Frames
Acrostic Poem templates
3 things to do this Summer
Noisy Seaside Poem
Summer Senses worksheet
Summer Vowels worksheet
Summer Sounds worksheet
Summer Alphabet worksheet
Summer Bucket List
You might also be interested in Transition Day Resources and Transition Day Power Point</>
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A bumper pack of alphabet activities for children to recognise letters of the alphabet and to identify upper and lower case letters.
Pack includes:
26 page Alphabet Book
26 page Alphabet Colouring
26 page Alphabet Find and Colour
26 Alphabet Playdough Mats
26 page Dictionary Sheets
26 page Letter Sort
Magnetic Letter sheet - capitals
Magnetic Letter sheet - lower case
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This bundle contains 5 comprehension packs based on popular Christmas stories ( The Christmasaurus, The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas, The Snowman, The Night Before Christmas and Aliens Love Panta Claus) to teach comprehension skills in Reception or KS1. All packs contain links to read along stories I’ve created on my YouTube channel.
Each pack contains a short extract and 5 comprehension activities ideal for EYFS and KS1. They also contain answer sheets and EYFS and NC objectives covered.
The activities include:
Cloze Passage - fill in the gaps from the given extract
Sequencing - order the events
Multiple Choice Questions
Word Choices
Inference Questions.
Answer sheet
EYFS and NC Objectives
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A jam-packed Funnybones pack to kick start any Funnybones topic. Ideal for EYFS and KS1 and includes 5 unit plans with accompanying resources (each unit plan is also in Word to allow you to edit it your own format)
This pack includes:
English unit plan for 5 lessons and resources
Maths unit plan for 5 lessons and resources
WCR unit plan for 5 lessons and resources
Science unit plan for 7 lessons and resources (including 1 power point)
Topic/History unit plan for 7 lesson and resources (including 2 power points)
Comprehension pack including 5 different comprehension skills
EYFS and NC objectives are covered and included along with differentiated activities.
This pack is perfect for EYFS and KS1 children and contains a massive 195 activities to complete.
Activities include:
Phonics - phoneme and words cards for Phases 2-5, wordsearches, colouring sheets, sorting activities and more.
Alphabet - each activity has 26 pages and includes colouring, matching and sorting activities as well as playdough mats.
Cursive and Pre-Cursive Alphabet Cards - ideal to use when your children are practising handwriting.
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This bundle contains 6 week long units to teach Whole Class Reading in Reception or Year 1. Each unit contains a plan, a Power Point for each lesson, extracts, NC objectives and tips on how whole class reading could work for you.
Each pack also contains a link to a Read Along version of the story on my YouTube channel.
Stories include:
Elmer, Five Minutes' Peace, Funnybones, Handa's Surprise, Not Now, Bernard and Owl Babies.
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This bundle includes a 6 week History unit of work for KS1 to discover all about Seaside Holidays in the Past and compare them to holidays now. The unit ends with a seaside day with a Victorian picnic!
The plan includes: Learning Objectives linked to the new N.C, key questions, teaching activities and pupil learning outcomes. The plan is adaptable to suit the needs of your children.
The Pack includes: a 6 week unit plan, KWL worksheet, Old and New photos sorting worksheet, Old and New photos to sort, Victorian Picnic Facts, Picnic Menu worksheet, Seaside Holidays Now and Then PowerPoint, Timeline Pictures to order, Victorian Games and Victorian Picnic PowerPoint.
The bundle also includes 3 weeks of Whole Class Reading based on Seaside books -the stories included are: The Rainbow Fish, The Snail and the Whale and The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. Each story has a week long plan, a power point for everyday, NC objectives and a link to a Read Along version of the story on my YouTube channel.
There are also 3 comprehension packs of the same stories -each pack includes, Cloze Passage - fill in the gaps from the given extract, Sequencing - order the events, Multiple Choice Questions, Word Choices, Inference Questions, Answer sheet and EYFS and NC Objectives
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This bundle contains 6 week long units to teach Whole Class Reading in KS2.
Books include: Danny the Champion of the World, Hetty Feather, The Twits, George’s Marvellous Medicine, The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark and Bill’s New Frock.
Each unit includes:
Plan
Extracts
NC objectives
Tips on how Whole Class Reading could work for you.
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This pack includes a Maths and Spag assessment for each year group from Year 1 to Year 5. The pack includes:
Maths assessment per year group
Spag assessment per year group
Answer sheet for each assessment
Analysis sheet for each assessment
Class score sheet
Notes about using the assessments.
These assessments are clear and fuss-free, they are intended to show gaps in learning and help you identify which areas to cover.
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Everything you need to teach Phase 5 and cheaper than if all the resources were bought individually!
Pack contains:
Buried Treasure
Nonsense word flashcards
Bingo
Word search
Phase 5 phonemes
Phase 5 words
Phoneme Spotters
Roll and Read game
You might also be interested in Phase 3 Teaching Pack
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IDEAL FOR A HALF TERM TOPIC ON JULIA DONALDSON
This bundle contains 5 whole class reading packs based on popular Julia Donaldson stories ( Room on the Broom, The Gruffalo, Stick Man, Superworm and Zog) and also 2 Comprehension packs (Room on the Broom and The Gruffalo) ideal for teaching comprehension skills in Reception or KS1.
Each whole class reading pack contain extracts, a weekly plan, NC Objectives covered and tips on how to teach whole class reading. The comprehension packs contain a short extract and 5 comprehension activities ideal for EYFS and KS1. They also contain answer sheets and EYFS and NC objectives covered.
The activities include:
Cloze Passage - fill in the gaps from the given extract
Sequencing - order the events
Multiple Choice Questions
Word Choices
Inference Questions.
Answer sheet
EYFS and NC Objectives
If you use and like this resource, I’d be very grateful if you left a review.
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