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'Your one stop shop for ENGAGING, AUTHENTIC ideas to keep your students busy, and schools wanting you to come back. Resources that are easy to use with links to some amazing websites and a host of free resources.'
Teaching is one of the most creative jobs I know, even after 30 years of teaching I realise that every day is different. You may be teaching the same subjects and grades, but it's children that make teaching both the challenging and rewarding profession that I have known.
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A fun fast thinking game for children of all ages.
Think against the clock…use a stopwatch, or IWB timer…set it to 1 seconds, and see if your students can complete the challenges in the time limit given.
7 slides altogether
Here are some examples
•name 5 fruits
•name 5 things heavier than a brick
•5 things that are blue
•5 things that can fly
…check out the preview video and preview for more ideas
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“Christmas Roll, Read, and Write.” has been designed to create the festive season with creativity and literacy skills in a fun and engaging way. Ideal for use as a center activity.
What’s Included:
Custom Christmas Dice Templates: We provide templates to create custom dice featuring a range of Xmassy characters, festive settings, interesting problems, and weather conditions. These visuals add excitement to the activity.
Christmas Story Prompts: With a large combination of different scenarios at your fingertips, your students will be able to unleash their imaginations this Christmas!
Educational Benefits: “Christmas Roll, Read, and Write” isn’t just fun; it’s a fun educational tool. It nurtures creativity, refines writing skills, and reinforces key literary concepts such as character development, plot structure, and setting description.
Versatile Usage: Perfect for individual or group activities, this resource is adaptable for various grade levels and can be tailored to meet different learning objectives.
Why Choose “Christmas, Roll, Read, and Write”?
This activity combines Christmas with the joy of storytelling, making it a valuable addition to your teaching resources. Here’s why teachers are raving about it:
Ignites Creativity: Immerse your students in the festive season as they craft tales of happiness, tradition and fun.
Enhances Literacy Skills: Improve writing proficiency, expand vocabulary, and boost comprehension as students bring their stories to life.
Flexible and Reusable: Incorporate it into your Christmas-themed lessons, use it as a fun writing exercise, or assign it as a creative holiday homework project.
Guaranteed Engagement: Students love the element of chance as they roll the dice to determine their Christmas-themed story elements.
Easy Integration: Clear instructions and user-friendly templates make it effortless to include this activity in your curriculum.
Description
These literacy anchor charts will make teaching different ELA skills easier!
These JUST PRINT reading anchor charts come in large poster size for teaching and classroom displays . They have been created in A3 size for clear printing.
I have also included transparent PNG versions of the charts so that you can create your own charts (NB: You cannot alter the graphics)
Each Anchor Chart includes two different teacher versions and each in color and black and white background for saving ink when printing
Anchor Charts are crucial to students understanding, reinforcing, and applying a skill. Use the charts as a reference for teaching a specific literacy skill.
You can make individual reference cards of your own by either using the PNG files included or by adjusting the print settings on your computer. You will receive PPT, PDF and PNG versions of each chart.
What is included in this set?
Writing checklist
Author’s Purpose
When to use capital letters M.I.N.T.S reference
Retelling a story
Visualizing text
Making Inferences
Character Traits
Reading is thinking
Making Connections
Identifying Key Ideas
Sensory details include sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste.
Writers employ the five senses to engage a reader’s interest. If you want your writing to jump off the page, then bring your reader into the world you are creating.
When describing a past event, try and remember what you saw, heard, touched, smelled, and tasted, then incorporate that into your writing.
Sensory details are used in any great story, literary or not. Think about your favourite movie or video game. What types of sounds and images are used?
What do your favourite characters taste, smell, and touch?
Without sensory details, stories would fail to come to life.
When sensory details are used, your readers can personally experience whatever you’re trying to describe, reminding them of their own experiences, giving your writing a universal feel. A universal quality is conveyed when the writer can personally connect with the readers.
Another note about sensory details: there is no one sense that’s more important than another. It all depends on the scene you’re trying to create.
However, imagery, the sight sense, is a common feature in vivid writing.
You will receive a zip file containing a PDF and PowerPoint version of this resource.
Each image is presented in
A full page image
A full page image with sensory prompts
Planning Template
Draft writing Template
Lined Paper
Sensory details include sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste.
Writers employ the five senses to engage a reader’s interest. If you want your writing to jump off the page, then bring your reader into the world you are creating.
When describing a past event, try and remember what you saw, heard, touched, smelled, and tasted, then incorporate that into your writing. spookydeals19
Sensory details are used in any great story, literary or not. Think about your favourite movie or video game. What types of sounds and images are used?
What do your favorite characters taste, smell, and touch?
Without sensory details, stories would fail to come to life.
When sensory details are used, your readers can personally experience whatever you’re trying to describe, reminding them of their own experiences, giving your writing a universal feel. A universal quality is conveyed when the writer can personally connect with the readers.
Another note about sensory details: there is no one sense that’s more important than another. It all depends on the scene you’re trying to create.
However, imagery, the sight sense, is a common feature in vivid writing.
You will receive a zip file containing a PDF and PowerPoint version of this resource.
Each image is presented in
A full page image
A full page image with sensory prompts
Planning Template
Draft writing Template
Lined Paper
Discover the Wonders of Wildlife with Our Amazing Animals SUB Pack!
Engage and inspire your upper primary students with this comprehensive SUB pack, carefully curated to captivate young minds while enhancing essential skills. This resource is a treasure trove of educational activities centered around three fascinating creatures – the axolotl, platypus, and star-nosed mole.
What’s Inside:
Wordsearches & Math Activities: Exciting wordsearches to reinforce vocabulary and challenging math activities to stimulate logical thinking.
Comprehension & Information Text: Dive into the captivating world of the axolotl, platypus, and star-nosed mole with informative texts and comprehension questions that encourage critical thinking.
Writing Prompts & Information Writing Scaffold: Spark creativity with engaging writing prompts and guide students through the process of crafting informative pieces with our structured writing scaffold.
Animal Art Activity: Unleash artistic expression with a fun animal art activity, allowing students to bring these remarkable creatures to life on paper.
Fast Finishing Multiple Choice Sheets: Keep the momentum going with multiple-choice sheets designed for fast finishers, offering an extra layer of enrichment.
Do you struggle to get your students to write creatively in your literacy sessions?
-This resource is designed to encourage reluctant writers to create their own characters using templates and scaffolds to help build vocabulary and utilise the senses and incorporate them into their writing.
-The blank faces give students the opportunity to be creative with their characters and explore emotions, alongside heroes and villains. Encourage them to break with traditional stories and gender
-Sterotyping… make the princess the villain in your story, or create an angry cinderalla…who is not at all happy about being treated the way that she is that she starts to think about revenge.
-Students can have great fun with these activities, and creative with their drawings. This results often in often funny and engaging stories which students love to share with their peers.
Enjoy this resources, and be sure to look for the other scaffolded writing resources that I have available in store.
What people are saying about this resource
Great way to work on creative writing! Love that it can be on the computer or printed out to address all learning styles and needs!!!
My own kids are having fun with this. I can’t wait to do it with my students next year when I do our Fractured Fairy Tales Unit.
My students loved this interactive resource. It was rigorous enough and met the standard.
My students loved this resource so helpful for their understanding of what they needed to do. Thank you;
Helps my daughter to be inspired to write creative stories.
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What is covered in this resource?
Beautiful images with a list of suggested vocabulary
-Sentence Starters
-Templates to scaffold writing ideas
-Positive and Negative character trait list
-Beggining, middle , end planning sheet
-Character Trait Planner
-Character planning sheet and checklist (11 characters to choose from)
-Blank Characters for coloring
Please download the preview and watch the video to view a sample of the included pages.
This is for use by one teacher in one classroom. If you would like to share with your colleagues, PLEASE purchase a multiple license. Thank you :)
Do you find yourself with an extra 1-15 minutes at the end of the lesson to grab a quick and engaging activity?
-This fun pack of activities is guaranteed to have something to get your kiddos to engage with literacy, numeracy and some fun challenges.
-Brain teasers are a fun way to teach students how to use deductive reasoning. This kind of critical thinking is so important when helping students learn how to problem solve in math.
You will receive a PowerPoint presentation
What is in this pack?Rapid writing- get your students thoughts flowing with this fun 15 minute activity
Categories style game with a range of difficulty levels
Read and retell
If this is the answer, then what is the question?
Alphabet Brainstorm- a quiet reading follow up activity
How many words can you make?
Writing link to stimulate any lesson
What are your spelling words worth?
Number of the day ( a range of levels)
Creative thinking and logical thinking activitiesIf you liked this pack then you may enjoy these:
SPELLING TERM 4
GRADE 2
This makes a great addition to your primary spelling resources. I have created a set of spelling lists for each of the grades. This pack contains a set of activities for each spelling list.
• Instructions included in each of the sets of word lists
• On each page there is a new set of list words for you to practice (see the word list below)
• Firstly read each word in the word list
• Then copy and write each word 3 times
• Lastly, each letter has a value. Work out how much each word is worth using the table provided.
Week 1 Initial wh - pattern
Week 2 Final digraph –nk
Week 3 Final blend – lt
Week 4 Words with the suffix – ly
Week 5 Words with the suffix – er
Week 6 Words with the suffix – ful, full
Week 7 Words with the suffix – able
Week 8 Words with the suffix – est
Week 9 Words with the suffix – ness
Week 10 Final – sion/-tion
Use this resource for…
✔ Homework
✔ Morning Work
✔ Literacy Centres
✔ Early Finisher Tasks
✔ Spelling Intervention
✔ Distance Learning
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SPELLING TERM 4 GRADE 5
This makes a great addition to your primary spelling resources. I have created a set of spelling lists for each of the grades. This pack contains a set of activities for each spelling list.
• Instructions included in each of the sets of word lists
• On each page there is a new set of list words for you to practice (see the word list below)
• Firstly read each word in the word list
• Then copy and write each word 3 times
• Lastly, each letter has a value. Work out how much each word is worth using the table provided.
Week 1 Sight words, prefix dis-
Week 2 Sight words, prefix in-
Week 3 Sight words, prefix ob-
Week 4 Sight words, prefix sub-
Week 5 Sight words, suffix -ology
Week 6 Sight words, Greek root aero
Week 7 Sight words, Greek root ambi
Week 8 Sight words
Week 9 Greek roots audi/astro
Week 10Greek roots graph/fract
Use this resource for…
✔ Homework
✔ Morning Work
✔ Literacy Centres
✔ Early Finisher Tasks
✔ Spelling Intervention
✔ Distance Learning
#Behaviourmanagement #reliefteachingsurvivalkit #reliefteachingideas #reliefteachingbundle #substituteteacherideas #backtoschool #bestresourceever #subtub #substituteteacher #reliefteacher #classroomorganisation #spelling #term4
This is for use by one teacher in one classroom. If you would like to share with your colleagues, PLEASE purchase a multiple license. Thank you :)
As always, please contact me with any questions!
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SPELLING TERM 4 GRADE 6
This makes a great addition to your primary spelling resources. I have created a set of spelling lists for each of the grades. This pack contains a set of activities for each spelling list.
• Instructions included in each of the sets of word lists
• On each page there is a new set of list words for you to practice (see the word list below)
• Firstly read each word in the word list
• Then copy and write each word 3 times
• Lastly, each letter has a value. Work out how much each word is worth using the table provided.
Week 1 In words ending in -ent and -ant, the e and a are often mistaken for one another.
Week 2 In many words, the letter i is confused with an e, y or a.
Week 3 Many English words use double consonants.
Week 4 Homophones are two words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings.
Week 5 Words with an ‘o’ sometimes are misspelled because the ‘o’ is left out of the word.
Week 6 In English, an s is added to the end of a word for two reasons.
Week 7 Words with an o sometimes get misspelled because the ‘o’ is mispronounced or an extra vowel, such as an ‘i, ‘is added.
Week 8 Many English words use double consonants.
Week 9 Many English words use a prefix before a root word.
Week 10Many writers confuse -ent and -ant, -ence and -ance, and -ery and -ary.
Use this resource for…
✔ Homework
✔ Morning Work
✔ Literacy Centres
✔ Early Finisher Tasks
✔ Spelling Intervention
✔ Distance Learning
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This is for use by one teacher in one classroom. If you would like to share with your colleagues, PLEASE purchase a multiple license. Thank you :)
As always, please contact me with any questions!
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SPELLING TERM 4 GRADE 4
This makes a great addition to your primary spelling resources. I have created a set of spelling lists for each of the grades. This pack contains a set of activities for each spelling list.
• Instructions included in each of the sets of word lists
• On each page there is a new set of list words for you to practice (see the word list below)
• Firstly read each word in the word list
• Then copy and write each word 3 times
• Lastly, each letter has a value. Work out how much each word is worth using the table provided.
Week 1 Sight words, r-controlled vowels
Week 2 Sight words, r-controlled
Week 3 Sight words, r-controlled vowels
Week 4 Sight words, r-controlled vowels
Week 5 Sight words, long “oo” sound
Week 6 Sight words, ‘shun’ sound, spelt ‘tion’, ‘ss’
Week 7 Sight words, ‘shun’ sound, spelt ‘tion’
Week 8 Sight words, ‘oo’ pronounced short oo’ and ‘u’ sounds
Week 9 Compound words
Week 10 Compound words
Use this resource for…
✔ Homework
✔ Morning Work
✔ Literacy Centres
✔ Early Finisher Tasks
✔ Spelling Intervention
✔ Distance Learning
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This is for use by one teacher in one classroom. If you would like to share with your colleagues, PLEASE purchase a multiple license. Thank you :)
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Have fun this halloween with these writing prompts and matching themed papers.
When complete, they look amazing decorating your writing boards.
I have included prompt cards, and themed writing paper for those that get a writers block!!
Great family games to play with your own kids in the holidays.
Now includes the Xmas Acts of Kindness calendar for December and a blank editable version for you or your students to make their own copy.
A Selection of games for numeracy and literacy to use as warm ups, brain breaks or extension activities for fast finishers. Christmas Themed with BLM that can be printed off and coloured in to keep them busy.
Boggle Game
Number of the day
Categories worksheet and game
What are your spelling words worth?
A handy resource for casual teachers, includes a blank so that you can make up your own games.
SPELLING TERM 4
GRADE 1
This makes a great addition to your primary spelling resources. I have created a set of spelling lists for each of the grades. This pack contains a set of activities for each spelling list.
• Instructions included in each of the sets of word lists
• On each page there is a new set of list words for you to practice (see the word list below)
• Firstly read each word in the word list
• Then copy and write each word 3 times
• Lastly, each letter has a value. Work out how much each word is worth using the table provided.
Week 1 Long “a” pattern –a-e words
Week 2 Long “o” pattern –o-e words
Week 3 Short “oo” pattern –oo words
Week 4 Long “a” pattern –ay words
Week 5 Long “o” pattern –ow words
Week 6 Short “o” pattern -ow words
Week 7 Long “i” pattern –i-e words
Week 8 Long “o” pattern –oa words
Week 9 Long “oo” pattern words
Week 10 Long “e” pattern –ee words
Use this resource for…
✔ Homework
✔ Morning Work
✔ Literacy Centres
✔ Early Finisher Tasks
✔ Spelling Intervention
✔ Distance Learning
#Behaviourmanagement #reliefteachingsurvivalkit #reliefteachingideas #reliefteachingbundle #substituteteacherideas #backtoschool #bestresourceever #subtub #substituteteacher #reliefteacher #classroomorganisation #spelling #term4
This is for use by one teacher in one classroom. If you would like to share with your colleagues, PLEASE purchase a multiple license. Thank you :)
As always, please contact me with any questions!
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-Students will love using these math puzzle task card activities and won’t even realize how much they’re learning!
Benefits of Using Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzles:
builds higher level thinking skills
students learn to think outside the box
interactive, fun, and hands-on
develops reasoning skills
students learn how to think analytically
practice being challenged but not frustrated
Animal Themed logic games, puzzles and brainteasers is a massive 15 page resource
It comes as an editable power point and a PDF file, so that you can easily use this resource with an IWB or print off the fabulous resources and laminate for durability.
What do you get in this pack?
6 Real animal photos
Clip art of environments
Photos of real environments
Word cards
Venn diagrams
Suggested games and activities to play with these cards
1 game cards with rules and how to play
Matrix game
Memory Game
Compound word animal puzzles
World maps of Continents (for animal sorting)
PDF versionEditable Power Point version
158 slides/pages
You will Get a Zip file with both US and AUS/UK spellings. Please make sure that you have the software on your computer to unzip the file
What people have said about this product
This was organized, helpful and engaging for my special ed students. It was challenging for them but they enjoyed working together and independently. It provided great review and plenty of practice. THANK YOU!
Thank you! This has been very helpful. There were great ideas that I used with my special ed students.
This is a huge set!! It looks awesome and I can’t wait to try it with my kids. Thank you so much for offering it during the sale! You rock!
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extremely well done - a lot of work has been put in this resource. Thank you!
“This is a great higher level thinking resource. It is also different than the typical logic puzzle, which makes it even more perfect.”
-Options for using this resource:
-Involve your students with the creation of the games, older students can easily cut the cards ready to be laminated
-Keep the games in their individual sets for easy access- Ziplock bags are ideal for this
-Incorporate into your morning circle activities, or for a fill in activity when you need some extra time
-Use for early finishers
-The best part?
This resource does require preparation for some of the games, however, parents or older students could be enlisted to help compile and laminate some of the games. This is a comprehensive resource for the price.
Many of the games can be used on the IWB or individual devices
You will receive a Zip file which has both a PDF and PowerPoint version of this resource. Please ensure that you have the software to open such files.
This is for use by one teacher in one classroom. If you would like to share with your colleagues, PLEASE purchase multiple licenses. Thank you :)
These engaging, visual writing prompts with pictures will get even your most reluctant writer writing!
These fun writing prompts are no prep, just print and go.
-These images are scaffolded by using the students senses to add interest to their writing
Sensory details include sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste.
-Writers employ the five senses to engage a reader’s interest. If you want your writing to jump off the page, then bring your reader into the world you are creating.
-When describing a past event, try and remember what you saw, heard, touched, smelled, and tasted, then incorporate that into your writing.
-Sensory details are used in any great story, literary or not. Think about your favourite movie or video game. What types of sounds and images are used?
What do your favorite characters taste, smell, and touch?
-Without sensory details, stories would fail to come to life.
-When sensory details are used, your readers can personally experience whatever you’re trying to describe, reminding them of their own experiences, giving your writing a universal feel. A universal quality is conveyed when the writer can personally connect with the readers.
-Another note about sensory details: there is no one sense that’s more important than another. It all depends on the scene you’re trying to create.
However, imagery, the sight sense, is a common feature in vivid writing.
-These are perfect for Writer’s Workshop, Work on Writing, Writing Centers, Substitute Teachers, and Fast Finishers.
-These quirky picture prompts are a great way to let the kiddos choose what they want to write about, while also helping to spark their imaginations!
-They are perfect for those “I don’t know what to write about!” kiddos.
They are also great for Work on Writing during your Daily 5 time, writing centers, fast finishers, writing homework, or leaving for a substitute teacher!
You will receive a zip file containing a PDF and PowerPoint version of this resource.
Each image is presented in
A full page image
A full page image with sensory prompts
Planning Template
Draft writing Template
Lined Paper
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These story templates can be used on an IWB, on various other devices and are ideal for helping students to scaffold their writing to make it the best that it can be.
Checklists are included on each slide to monitor
My Checklist
Capital letters
Nouns
Powerful adjectives
Full stops
Description
Connective
Different punctuation
Synonyms
Compound sentence
Simple sentence
Complex sentence
Paragraphs
More than 7 words in a sentenceWord selections to use in each story
Brainstorming boxes for students to complete around all of the senses to support their writing.
Choice of 1 images to choose from.
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This is small sample of some of the great graphic organiser which are just a small part of the larger collection of printable resources in my
Print them off to use to plan, summarise, brainstorm or use on the IWB with the smart ink tools to help work collaboratively with the students, so that they get the idea to fill in their own worksheets.
Space has been left for you to fill in your own topic for each worksheet.
The original book has over 57 pages, an incredibly thorough resource for any Substitute or relieving teacher.
Quick and easy planning resource.
This resource includes:PowerPoint Presention
Worksheets
Animated illustrations
Printables
Coloring Sheets
Directions for creating irregular tessellations
Rotational geometric patterns
Website links to support the teaching of this topic
Options for using this resource:
This resource has a range of different resources that you can use across a number of differenct school subjects
The best part?
This resource requires NO PREP and is easy to use. Simply print and go to use the pages that you like.
You will receive a zip file with a PDF and PowerPoint version of this resource. Please ensure that you have the software to unzip a compressed file.
This is for use by one teacher in one classroom. If you would like to share with your colleagues, PLEASE purchase a multiple license. Thank you :)
Have some fun this Halloween with a class group challenge.
☑See who will be the first to solve all 6 problems.
☑This could be used with Escape the Room, or Breakout style lessons.
☑This resource is differentiated for easy, medium and harder levels of challenges for each stage. As each team works out a problem, they receive a part of the puzzle, or can have their progress marked off on the score sheet provided.
☑If you wanted to add a bonus challenge at the end, offer the groups the puzzle as a seventh activity.
☑For durability, print the puzzle on cardstock and laminate.
☑A great ‘go to activity’ which will last you for many Halloweens to come.
☑You will receive a PDF with 34 pages (including credits and front cover)
Please check out the preview and the video to see what is included in this resource
This is for use by one teacher in one classroom. If you would like to share with your colleagues, PLEASE purchase a multiple license. Thank you :)