Resources designed to improve provision and practice in the Early Years Foundation Stage, produced by a Reception teacher. Please email any queries to EYFS_Resources@outlook.com.
Resources designed to improve provision and practice in the Early Years Foundation Stage, produced by a Reception teacher. Please email any queries to EYFS_Resources@outlook.com.
A set of cockpit controls for use in an airport/aeroplane role play, to support Reading and Mathematical development through purposeful play. Includes speed controls (numbers to 10), position display, sentences to read (e.g. turn on the seatbelt sign), cockpit photograph, world map and flight speed dial.
Differentiated ‘To do lists’ for display in the Home Corner, to support early reading, writing and number development. Includes a simple word version, a simple sentence verison and a blank template for children to fill in themselves. Lists are numbered 1-5.
Five A4 posters for display in an airport or travel agent role play station, to support reading opportunities during purposeful play. Questions include 'Where do you want to go?; and ‘What will you pack in your bag?’ amongst others.
Simple recipes that can be followed to make Fairy Cakes, Star Biscuits and Lemonade. Numbered steps to support mathematical development and photographs alongside each step. Simple sentences to support early reading development. Could be displayed in the Home Corner or printed and added to a Recipe Book for children to explore in their role play.
A complete planning and resource pack for Phonics intervention group activities - Phase 2 (Letters and Sounds).
The planning format is fully editable and features over 20 separate sessions of group activities, covering Phase 2 of Letters and Sounds. There is also space for writing dates and teacher comments on the planning format.
The pack includes both planning and resources, and as such is ‘ready to go’ - the entire pack can be printed out and handed to your teachers/TAs for a full term of intervention groups or focus group activities.
Resources included:
Sound flashcards A-Z (double-sided)
Sound mat
CVC word cards (with/without sound buttons)
Tricky word cards
CVC picture cards
CVC word trails
CVC phoneme frame cards
Handwriting practice sheets (A-Z)
Photo Caption Cards
‘Buried Treasure’ coins (real/fake/blank)
…and more! The planning template is provided in both Word and PDF formats.
Two A4 ‘Check Up’ Forms for a doctors role play, featuring Writing and Maths opportunities, as well as a Prescription form for children to fill out independently.
A washing machine front dial for supporting reading and mathematical development in the Early Years. Numbered to 9 with simple symbols and words. Also included are washing instructions - simple sentences to display in the home corner.
Shopping lists to display in the Home Corner. Includes versions with and without capital letters for differentiation, and a blank template for children to complete themselves. Lists are numbered 1-7 to support mathematical development, and visual photo cues are alongside words to support reading.
Four aeroplane windows for display in an airport/aeroplane role play. Features photographic views of the pyramids in Egypt, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, London and New York.
A complete set of resources for an Airport or Aeroplane Role Play station, designed to support reading, writing and mathematical development within the Early Years. Includes:
Aeroplane windows for display
Arrivals and Departures Boards
Boarding Passes
Flight Attendant Checklist
In-flight entertainment TV screen
In-flight food and drink menu
Pilot and Cockpit controls
Question posters for display
A set of photo display posters for the Home Corner, labelled to support early reading development. Includes rooms of the house (kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom, garden) and different types of houses (flats, houseboat, house).
A one page Reading Record for Reception aged pupils, featuring the ‘Development Matters’ reading statements for 30-50 months, 40-60 months and the Early Learning Goal. There is space for teacher comments and logging the dates and books read each week.
In my Reception class we have a reading folder for the whole class. Every child gets one of these sheets either half-termly or termly, to document their progression and to support assessment. Practitioners write comments by the side and date when steps are achieved. Having the Development Matters statements easily to hand helps prompt practitioners to further children’s learning and plan for their ‘next steps’.
A visual playdough recipe and separate ingredients sheet with simple photographs for each step. Designed to enable children to follow the recipe independently.
Boarding passes for use in an airport role play. A reading/writing opportunity to support purposeful role play. Also features a clock for children to draw the hands on to support early mathematical development.
An in-flight entertainment TV screen for display in an airport/aeroplane role play. Great to stick to the back of chairs in an aeroplane role play to give children a realistic in-flight experience and an opportunity to develop their reading skills.
Picture Spotters for use in Phonic lessons.
Initial Sound Picture Spotters:
These initial sound posters are filled with objects that start with each letter’s sound. Each ‘sound room’ has at least 10 pictures or objects starting with that sound. We have found these really useful to use at the beginning of Phonics lessons when we are introducing a new sound. All sounds from A-Z are covered. Download includes Powerpoint and PDF versions.
Digraph/Trigraph Picture Spotters:
These digraph/trigraph picture spotters are filled with objects that contain each sound (Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs and Read Write Inc Set 2 sounds) . Each ‘sound room’ has at least 10 pictures or objects containing that sound. 24 different sounds are included:
ch, sh, th, ng, nk, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo (zoo), oo (book), ar, ur, or, ow (cow), oi, ear, air, ure, er, ay, ow (snow), ir, oy. Download includes Powerpoint and PDF versions.
“What’s in the sound room today?”
A complete planning and resource pack for Phonics intervention group activities - Phase 1 (Letters and Sounds).
The planning format is fully editable and features over 25 separate sessions of group activities, covering all aspects from Phase 1 (sound discrimination, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds, oral blending and segmenting). There is also space for writing dates and teacher comments on the planning format.
The pack includes both planning and resources, and as such is ‘ready to go’ - the entire pack can be printed out and handed to your teachers/TAs for a full term of intervention groups or focus group activities.
Resources included:
‘Good listening’ flashcards
Conversation starter question prompts
A ‘Sound Hunt’ recording sheet
Animal flashcards
Rhyming cards
Polysyllabic picture cards (for clapping out syllables)
CVC picture cards
The planning template is provided in both Word and PDF formats.
These A-Z display posters feature letter formation rhymes and use photo-realistic images for each sound instead of clipart - to support younger pupils, EAL and SEN learners who benefit more from real-life imagery.
Each sound is on its own A4 sheet.
These Powerpoint files contain videos for each letter in the alphabet, modelling how to form those letters correctly.
You will receive two Powerpoint files - one where each letter is modelled by a real hand, handwriting, and the other where the letter formation is animated.
We have found these videos incredibly useful within both Phonics and Handwriting sessions, as they allow students to view a continuous loop of correct letter formation when practising themselves.
You may either use the Powerpoints as standalone sessions - viewed in Slideshow mode, the first slide allows you to click on which letter you would like to practise, and you are then taken to the slide for that letter where the video is looped for pupils to copy.
Alternatively, if teaching a specific letter in a Phonics session, you could add the video file to your own Powerpoint and play the formation as and when is appropriate for your class.
Please note that both Powerpoints contain two versions for the letters ‘k’ and ‘f’ - looped and unlooped/straight and curved. Simply move forward to the next slide to use the one relevant to your setting.