Assembly: Work Together, Learn Together. 15 - 20 minutes long. Song, discussion opportunities, short story script and prayer included. Preparation: Ask groups of children to demonstrate (through role play) how they work together, e.g. in the classroom (helping with tasks); at lunchtime (good manners) and on the playground (playing fairly). These role plays will be shown during the assembly. You will also need 2 broom handles (or metre sticks) for the story. Fully editable.

Making Inferences - worksheet. 1 page - fully editable. Ideal for 7+ (depending on ability).

A simple INFERENCING activity. Students must identify words or phrases in a text, guess the meaning of the word/phrase then find and draw the meaning. PDF and Word document attached (so fully editable).

Attached is a 10-slide PowerPoint you can use when teaching non-fiction. Before delivering this PowerPoint, put a selection of non-fiction books out on the children’s tables. Contents: Features of non-fiction texts. Activities to complete. Presenting facts in different ways. Finding information. Asking questions. Topics to research. Ideal for 5 - 9 years. Fully editable.

Can your student’s find the punctuation and spelling errors in the attached Fantastic Mr. Fox passages. 2 differentiated activities - 1 easy and 1 hard. Fully editable. Answers provided

A comprehensive Year 2 Literacy programme of study for the entire year, 8 pages. 30 units of work. Excellent coverage of Fiction, Non-Fiction & Poetry genres. All writing and reading objectives included. Fully editable.

Helpful for students to refer to throughout the year. Great for intervention too.

A 14-slide PowerPoint to refer to when introducing and teaching pre-cursive handwriting. Contents: Slide 3: Holding your pencil correctly. Slide 4: The 5 pre-cursive stages. Slide 5: The 5 pre-cursive stages (to stick in books). Slide 6: Bookmarks showing the pre-cursive letters. Slide 8: Stage 1 Pre-Cursive Letters. Slide 9: Stage 2 Pre-Cursive Letters. Slide 10: Stage 3 Pre-Cursive Letters. Slide 11: Stage 4 Pre-Cursive Letters. Slide 12: Stage 5 Pre-Cursive Letters. Also attached are 5 worksheets for your student’s to practise the pre-cursive letters. Fully editable.

3 differentiated brochure writing templates: Easy: Red background - much less writing + large spaces for pictures. Medium: White background - less writing + small spaces for pictures. Hard: Grey background - writing sections only. Also attached are 2 completed brochures (to use as shared texts). The themes of the brochures are ‘Holiday’ themes (England and Thailand). Appropriate and adaptable for all age groups. Fully editable.

3 bookmark templates. Fully editable. Ideal for 5 - 11 years. Bookmark 1: A simple bookmark to print off. On the bookmark it says: Don’t you just hate it when your teacher says, “I want more details!” How can there be more details? Or when the teacher says, “Be more descriptive!” What can you do to put more description and details into your work? Be a Camera! Not just any camera, mind you, but a magic camera that lets you zoom in and out of settings, seeing and capturing not only the scenes, but the smells, tastes, sounds, and things you can feel (textures) in your story. Bookmark 2: Another simple bookmark to print off. Bookmark 3: Design your own bookmark. I always laminate the bookmarks so that they last the entire year. Fully editable.

What happens to ‘Grandma’ after she receives George’s Marvellous Medicine? Your student’s can use this worksheet to retell the events OR create their own marvellous reactions to the medicine! Fully editable.

A simple template to use when planning your weekly English lessons. Fully editable.

A useful booklet to practise note taking skills. 4 pages. Fully editable.

2 story path templates provided. Fully editable.

4 resources in total Plan and create your own rhyming couplet poems using these versatile worksheets. 8 pages in total. Fully editable.

Possessive Apostrophes - Words and Pictures Matching Activity. Activity: Cut out the cards and shuffle them. Place the cards face down and take turns to turn 2 cards over (1 picture card and 1 sentence card). Read the cards aloud. If 2 cards match, you get to keep them. The person with the most pairs at the end WINS! 5-page booklet. Ideal for younger learners. Fully editable.

If you’ve been teaching your class about ‘The Stone Age’, then this BIG WRITE will complement your unit of work perfectly. Attached is a complete story plan and 2 sets of writing sheets (one with an opener and one without) for a story called ‘THE HUNT’. Story outline: You are a Stone Age hunter and your family rely on you for food. You set off on a hunt! Just follow the plan and you can’t go wrong! Fully editable!

A great game to use when teaching nouns, adjectives and verbs. Activity: Sort the 30 words (in the grid) into 3 groups (10 nouns, 10 adjectives, 10 verbs) Independent or paired-based activity. Fully editable (so you can change the words). Answers provided.

A great worksheet to use when teaching verbs. Ideal for 5+ Fully editable. Answer sheet provided.

Attached is a 17-slide Acrostic Poetry PowerPoint with 4 integrated activities and worksheets. 1 week of learning and activities. Ideal for 6+ (depending on ability). All resources are fully editable. The PowerPoint covers the following 6 areas: What is a poem? What is an Acrostic poem? Acrostic poem about you. Acrostic poem about school. Acrostic animal alliteration poem. Acrostic weather rhyming poem.