Celebrate Chinese New Year in your classroom with this easy and fun craft and writing activity suitable for KS1 / lower KS2.
Start by reading a story about the animals of the Chinese Zodiac, then introduce the main activity – making a Zodiac wheel. Children cut out the wheel and animal cards which they then glue to the wheel and colour or decorate it.
Finish off with a quick writing task – children draw or colour (both versions included) their Zodiac animal, read about its strength and weaknesses and say if they agree with the descriptions.
The resource is in .pdf format , not editable (29 pages including the cover and credits page) and includes:
1. The story of the 12 Zodiac animals.
2. Zodiac Craft instructions
3. Zodiac Craft
4. Zodiac writing activity (individual pages for each Zodiac animal)
The resource has been updated up to the Year 2026 (with lowest year now being 2003)
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In this resource, you will find over 80 question stems/ pupil prompts that could be used during Guided Reading sessions. Was created to follow the Reading Rainbow scheme (COLOURFUL REMINDERS FANTASTIC) but can be adapted to be used with any guided reading lesson to promote deeper thinking and good reading behaviours.
A set of 7 posters that give basic information about the rules of using speech.
See the cover image for more detail.
Contain beautiful illustrations from The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore film.
Suitable for KS2.
A set of 24 task cards to practise the use of an apostrophes with possessive nouns, plural and singular.
Can be used as a table task or hid around the classroom for a scavenger hunt. Children walk around the room looking for cards, they then read the sentence on the card and turn it into a phrase with a possessive noun and apostrophe. For example - this table belongs to Liam - Liam's table.
Recording sheet and answers included.
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This is the last set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 3 and 4 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the 10 words of the list - strength, suppose, surprise, therefore, though, thought, through, various, weight, woman/women.
The activities include :
page 1 - mini word lists
page 2 - Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check activity
page 3 - Crack the Code activity
pages 4 - 8 - Word flash cards (2 per page of A4)
pages 9-10 - Word search activity (with answers)
page 11 - Roll and spell activity (dice required)
page 12 - Write it, draw it, use it activity
page 14 - Word Battleships activity
page 14 - credits
The 10 sets will be combined into a bundle shortly.
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Year 5 / 6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities ( set 9)
This is the ninth set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 5 and 6 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are the same as in Set 4 and are based on the following 10 words of the list - restaurant, rhyme, rhythm, sacrifice, secretary, shoulder, signature, sincerely, soldier, stomach.
The activities include :
page 1 - cover
page 2 - mini word lists
page 3 - Look, say, cover, write, check activity
page 4 - Email your Teacher activity
pages 5 - 9 - flash cards
pages 10-11 - Word Search activity (with answers)
page 12 - Roll and Spell activity
page 13 - Word change activity
page 14 -credits
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Guess Who
Guess Who? Board in English and French.
Great for practising people’s descriptions, facial features
Can be printed as A4 or A3 (without any quality lost). In .pdf (not editable) format.
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Year 5/6 Common Exception Words Spelling BUNDLE sets 1-5
Save ££ and get the first 5 sets of Years 5/6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities Sets as a BUNDLE.
Each set includes 5 different spelling activities to practise the common exception words; also included in each set are the mini word lists and word cards for display.
Please view each set individually to see the activities included.
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Up for your consideration is this cute writing prompt poster. It will remind the pupils to check their work before submitting it to you.
Name & Date; Capital Letters ; Punctuation; Finger Spaces.
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I have made this little set of 6 role cards that can be used for Literature Circles, Book Cubs or Guided Reading. The job titles are:
Word Finder
Questioner
Image Maker
Summariser
Predictor
and Reader.
All the cards come with job descriptions.
Just print them out and laminate for durability.
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A simple reminder to students on how to present their work.
DUMTUM - date, underline, miss a line, title, underline, miss a line.
Display as a poster or reduce the size and glue in children's books.
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In this spelling activity, children could be given a set of words to record in one column and then "dial" them on the keypad and record the number in next column. Have they recorded the dialled number correctly?
A cute set of 4 Halloween "Reading is a Treat" Bookmarks.
Ready to be printed and laminated for durability.
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Comma Uses Poster
A poster outlining the main uses of commas in the English language.
Suitable for KS2, great reference for SATs prep, etc.
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Year 5 / 6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities ( set 1)
This is the first set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 5 and 6 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the first 10 words of the list - accommodate, accompany, according, achieve, aggressive, amateur, ancient, apparent, appreciate, attached.
The activities include :
page 1 - cover
page 2 - mini word lists
page 3 - Look, say, cover, write, check activity
pages 4 - 8 - words flash cards
pages 9 - 10 - Word search (with answers)
page 11 - Make a sentence activity
page 12 - Caption it activity
page 13 - Spelling Maths activity
page 14 -credits
Set 2
Set 3
Set 4
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