The Train Ride story sack resources- Transport

The pack includes:

Display resources

Banner- a long colourful banner for your display
Display border- a train track border for you to print out as many times as you need to use on a display board of any size
Characters- large coloured pictures of the characters in the story ‘The Train Ride’ to add to your display
Story words- as set of word cards with words relating to the story- great to add to your display or use on your writing area
Story questions- a set of decorated cards with questions about the story
Title poster- a decorative poster with title, author and illustrator on
Photos- colour photos of steam trains- great to add to your displays
Large colour train- create a long train for your wall with engine and carriages
Role play/ story props

Face masks- a set of coloured masks for retelling the story of ‘The Train Ride’ or for making up new stories
Puppets- coloured stick puppets to make
Sequencing pictures- pictures to sequence when retelling the story
Small world background- print out and use as backdrop for your train set
Literacy

A4 word card- an A4 sized card with words and pictures about the story ‘The Train Ride- great to use when writing
A train shaped book to make- on each page the children can complete the sentence ‘I see a…’
Design a ticket- fill in the details on the train ticket
Worksheets- various worksheets including a book review, writing and drawing about a favourite part of the story, matching word to picture, filling in speech bubbles and writing initial sounds
Writing pages- four photocopiable sheets with borders for the children to write about the story or to include in your writing area
Alphabet line- a colourful alphabet line on hot air balloons

Numeracy

Sheep number line- a number line from 0-50 on cute sheep
Worksheets- add the numbers on the train carriages, fill in the missing numbers and count how many objects there are

Power points

The Train Ride- spot all the objects beginning with the letter ‘t’ as the train moves along and then see how many you can remember at the end!
A listening journey- click to hear the sounds on each page and guess what sounds they are
Art and craft
Puppets- colour and make your own puppets for retelling the story
Face masks- colour the face masks
Colouring pictures- various pictures to colour
Cut and assemble the train- cut out the simple train parts and assemble your own train
What do you see out of the window- draw a scene you might see on a train journey
Make a tunnel
Games to make and play
Matching pairs
Colour train bingo

Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves. It is not associated with, or endorsed by the authors or publishers of the story,