Hi! I'm Tanya; an experienced Year 1 and KS1 teacher. I specialise in Writing, Maths and Reading, in particular Phonics.
The resources I make are designed to have minimal prep as possible.
You can find more information about my resources on TikTok! @no.prep.resources
Requests are welcomed for themes and new resources! Please email rainbowlearningshop@gmail.com
Hi! I'm Tanya; an experienced Year 1 and KS1 teacher. I specialise in Writing, Maths and Reading, in particular Phonics.
The resources I make are designed to have minimal prep as possible.
You can find more information about my resources on TikTok! @no.prep.resources
Requests are welcomed for themes and new resources! Please email rainbowlearningshop@gmail.com
Want a grab and go lesson to teach your Year 1 or 2 students how to build and use expanded noun phrases?
Here you go!
Standalone lesson powerpoint included with multiple resources to use within the lesson and afterwards too!
Print and go!
FULL UNIT OF WORK 11 days YEAR ONE THE WRITE STUFF
Full unit of work includes:
Overview of planning
Lesson Breakdown
Powerpoint
Shapes for building the shape of a poem
Tasks and worksheets
Independent writing opportunities
Picture sentences
Grammar covered:
Adjectives
Verbs using ing
Sentence structure related to a poem
Cross Curricular Opportunities
Animal groups and classification - recommended to use alongside this science topic or after it has been taught (I did this alongside animal topic and worked beautifully)
Taking Flight is an Emmy Award winning short film based on Antonio Pasin, the inventor of the famous red wagon, the Radio Flyer.
This narrative unit is based on the short film. It follows a chunked approach, and is inspired by Jane Considine’s The Write Stuff.
A detailed plan for each day is included within the slides and tasks are provided for each lesson.
Some lessons focus on sentence work and some work on grammar or vocabulary.
Skills and Knowledge focused on:
Adding ed to verbs and introduce to irregular verbs
Introducing ‘er’ as a suffix
Using ‘and’ to connect two clauses
Indepedent Writing opportunity is provided as well.
Year 1 Writing Bundle - Half term’s worth of writing planning. Includes tasks and powerpoints.
Use this bundle if you are learning about the history of transport.
Antonio Pasin was the inventor of the Radio Flyer wagon.
Taking Flight is an emmy-award short film about the imagination a simple toy can bring and the relationship between a child and his grandfather. It involves adventure, different modes of transport and imagination.
Full Unit of Work Writing Year One Non-fiction Writing
This unit is designed to aid Year 1 children in the writing of a biographical text about Antonio Pasin - the inventor of the Radio Flyer.
This unit is linked to the Emmy-Award winning short film Taking Flight based on Antonio Pasin.
This unit covers:
Introduction to Questions and Question words
Adding er to the end of a verb to make a noun
Writing sentences
Exploring different vocabulary
Inspired by Jane Considine’s approach ‘The Write Stuff’.
NO PREP - PRINT, LOOK AND GO!
FULL UNIT OF WORK - 2 WEEKS WORTH OF PLANNING READY TO GO!
Narrative Unit based on Disney’s Silly Symphonies ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’
Includes:
PowerPoint ready with animations, links and more!
Plot Point pictures for display
Activities related to each lesson
Picture sentences to promote independence - similar to Talk4Writing
Linked to The Write Stuff - Jane Considine - Plan made by me
Grammar Lessons and Resources included
Expanded Noun Phrases
Using un
FULL YEAR 1 MATHS BUNDLE
9 units - covers the entire Year 1 academic year.
Fully animated powerpoints ready to use!
Correlates with Year 1 Ready to Progress (2020) curriculum and NCETM’s curriculum prioritisation.
Most recent mathematical vocabulary used, recommended by NCETM.
Sentence stems built into each slides to promote mathematical vocabulary use and reasoning.
Each unit contains:
Overview of the learning objects and success criteria
Fully animated and detailed powerpoints
Questions
Annotations
Tasks/Activities for each lesson
Used by myself in my Year 1 classroom.
Year 2 coming soon!
Phonemic Awareness Plans READY TO TEACH!
BLOCK ONE (OF SIX)
COVERS 5 weeks of learning
Covers various skills to promote Phonemic Awareness in EYFS and KS1 children (ages 4-7).
Phoneme Isolation
Blending
Segmentation
Addition
Deletion
Manipulation
For more information see and download Phonemic Awareness Info Pack (FREE)
MORE BLOCKS TO COME!
FREE information pack on Phonemic Awareness and the skills required.
Includes:
Phonological Awareness explained
Phonemic Awareness explained
Each phonemic Awareness skill broken down with progression laid out
Information break down on each skill
BLOCK ONE (Week 1-5)
MORE Week by week phonemic awareness plans COMING SOON!
Based on Year 1 Curriculum Prioritisation and NCETM Professional Development material. This is based on Unit 7 Addition and Subtraction: Strategies within 10
Different strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems within 10 including
adding and subtracting 1,
adding and subtracting zero,
number bonds to 10,
doubles and halves,
near doubles and near halves,
adding and subtracting 2,
subtracting number from itself.
Included:
Overview of the unit
Information about the different additive structures (great for early career teachers and non-specialists)
FULL usable powerpoint (ZERO prep)
Tasks (PDF and powerpoint) - sectioned for easy finding of resources
Year 1 Maths Counting and Unitising
Based on Year 1 Curriculum Prioritisation and NCETM Professional Development material. This is based on Unit 9 - Unitising and Coin Recognition.
Included in this pack:
Overview which details the representations used, learning objectives and success criteria for each lesson
Tasks for each lesson
Slide show equipped with animations and detailed notes when needed
16 days worth of maths lessons!
In this unit, children will explore:
Skip counting in 2s, 5s and 10s
The different coins and their value (up to 10p)
Counting out an amount
Comparing a set of coins
Reading prices
Making 10p using 1ps, 2ps, 5ps and 10ps
Making 20p using 1ps, 2ps, 5ps and 10ps
Making different amounts using coins of the same value
Using real life contexts with money
Identifying the ideal coin to make a certain amount
This unit prepares children for multiplication and division in Year 2.
Year 1 Unit of Work
4 lessons on Position and Direction.
This unit covers:
Left and right
Whole, quarter, half and three-quarter turns
Practical elements throughout the unit.
This is a 3 week unit aimed at the beginning of Year 1 and is designed to start the year off with some simple sentence writing. Linked to Jane Considine’s The Write Stuff.
Based on Nick Butterworth’s story Jasper’s Beanstalk
This unit links beautifully with a growing topic, particularly planting and caring for seeds.
Other linked topics are patience, persistence and responsibility (PSHCE).
This unit covers:
Sequencing
Verbs
Emotive adjectives
Simple sentence writing
Repetitive sentence structures
Included in the unit pack:
Overview of the unit; including independent writing
Plot Point pictures for display
Tasks for the non-sentence writing days
Picture sentences to promote writing independence
Powerpoint editable worksheets
I have personally used this in my classroom for the past 2 years and plan on using it again this September.