A set of 26 alphabet loop/follow me cards.
Each card features a picture and a who has something beginning with __ question. Children must listen carefully to the who has question and see if they have a picture that matches the letter. These cards help children to think about letter names and sounds and to recognise capital letters. These cards can be started on any card.
Aimed at Early Years and Key Stage 1 children.
A set of 16 reading cards for Year 2 children. Each card contains two or more questions or activities for the children to complete linked to their reading book.
These cards can be printed and laminated for use during guided reading or free reading sessions.
Aimed at Year 2
A set of 14 reading worksheets to complement the Year 2 reading curriculum. Each worksheet contains a series of questions or activities for the children to complete. The sheets focus on different areas of the curriculum for example story sequencing, adjectives and word meanings, questions.
These sheets can be used as part of a Guided Reading session and encourage children to focus on different parts of their book.
Aimed at Year 2
A set of 39 phonics exit tickets.
Exit tickets can be used at the end of a lesson to assess children’s knowledge and understanding. They can be used to assess what the children have learnt during the lesson or their prior knowledge. These phonics exit tickets can be used to assess phonics knowledge. Each ticket contains a grapheme and words that the children could use with the grapheme missing. Children can therefore say one of the words from their card or can work out the words and then see if they can think of their own word.
These exit tickets can be printed and laminated or displayed on the Interactive Whiteboard. Each child could answer the same question or they could all have their own ticket - this method is useful for differentiating and assessing the phonics knowledge of specific children.
Aimed at Early Years and Key Stage 1 children
A set of high frequency word flashcards covering the first 100 hfw.
The words are split into ten colour coded groups with ten words in each set meaning that the class can focus on ten words at a time. Each card shows the high frequency word in different fonts.
HFW Flashcards
A set of high frequency word flashcards covering the first 100 hfw. The words are split into ten colour coded groups with ten words in each set meaning that the class can focus on ten words at a time. Each card shows the high frequency word in different fonts.
HFW Activity Cards
A set of hfw activity cards to practise writing and spelling the first 100 high frequency words. The 100 words are split into ten colour coded groups with ten words in each group. Each word has an activity card for children to practise writing the word and an activity card for the children to practise spelling the word.
Suitable for Early Years and Key Stage 1 children.
Adjectives Complete Lesson
A complete English lesson for introducing adjectives.
The Powerpoint explains when to use adjectives. Children are then given the opportunity to think of adjectives to describe objects. Children must then identify adjectives in sentences. The lesson includes three differentiated worksheets and a plenary where children have to identify which word is not an adjective.
Conjunctions Complete Lesson
A complete English lesson for introducing conjunctions.
The lesson explains what conjunctions are and when to use them. The lesson focuses on and, but, so and because and demonstrates how to use each of these conjunctions. The lesson is interactive. Children must select the correct conjunction to use in sentences and select the correct ending for sentences and make sure that the sentence makes sense. The lesson includes three sets of differentiated worksheets with three worksheets in each set. There is a plenary at the end of the lesson where children must read a sentence including a conjunction and decide whether the sentence makes sense.
Aimed at Key Stage 1 children.
Adjectives Complete Lesson
A complete English lesson for introducing adjectives.
The Powerpoint explains when to use adjectives. Children are then given the opportunity to think of adjectives to describe objects. Children must then identify adjectives in sentences. The lesson includes three differentiated worksheets and a plenary where children have to identify which word is not an adjective.
Conjunctions Complete Lesson
A complete English lesson for introducing conjunctions.
The lesson explains what conjunctions are and when to use them. The lesson focuses on and, but, so and because and demonstrates how to use each of these conjunctions. The lesson is interactive. Children must select the correct conjunction to use in sentences and select the correct ending for sentences and make sure that the sentence makes sense. The lesson includes three sets of differentiated worksheets with three worksheets in each set. There is a plenary at the end of the lesson where children must read a sentence including a conjunction and decide whether the sentence makes sense.
Words Instead of Nice Complete Lesson
A complete English lesson covering words that can be used instead of nice.
The PowerPoint gives children examples of alternative words that they can use for nice and builds a list of alternative words - this final list could then be printed out for the children to use when they are writing. Children are then given a sentence with the word nice in and they have to replace the word nice in the sentence - children could rewrite the sentence on their whiteboards and replace the word nice or could simply write an alternative word for nice. The lesson includes three differentiated worksheets and a plenary where children have to find the odd word out eg amazing, helpful, caring and explain why it is the odd word out.
Aimed at Key Stage 1 children.
A set of 30 English Worksheets covering different areas of the Year 1 English curriculum. These worksheets are suitable for practising and revising the different areas of the curriculum.
The worksheets cover –
capital letters
lower case letters
alphabet work
adjectives
punctuation
common exception words
sentence writing
rhyming words
conjunctions
compound words
plurals
adding un
adding -er, -est, -ing and -ed.
The sheets include useful hints and explanations to support the children in completing the sheets.
The English worksheets would be suitable for a home learning activity and require no additional teaching resources. They could also be used in Year 2 to practise the English skills that children learnt in Year 1 or throughout Year 1 to practise skills. They are bright and colourful and have an alien theme to capture children’s interest and imagination.
The sheets are aimed at Year 1 children or as revision for Year 2 children.
Read a Picture PowerPoint
A set of ten pictures each with a retrieval activity and an imagination activity.
For the retrieval activity, children need to look at the picture and then answer retrieval questions about the picture.
For the imagination activity, children look at the picture and answer questions involving their imagination. This gives the children the opportunity to explain their thinking.
Read a Picture Worksheets
A set of 20 worksheets with ten different pictures. Each picture includes a retrieval worksheet including retrieval questions for children to answer and an imagination worksheet which involves one of a range of activities including writing sentences, drawing a picture to answer the question or writing questions.
These worksheets can be used as part of guided reading sessions.
Aimed at Key Stage 1 children.
A set of ten pictures and accompanying sentences introducing new vocabulary.
For each picture children have to identify a word within the sentences for example the word that describes the cakes or the word that tells you what the bird is doing. Once they have identified the word and talked about it’s meaning they then need to find other words that they could use instead for example they could replace large with huge, oversized. For the next activity children need to read a sentence and talk about what they think one of the words within the sentence means.
This activity PowerPoint introduces children to new vocabulary and encourages them to use the picture and the whole sentence to discuss what they think words mean. For some children they will be able to read the sentences independently however for other children I will read the sentence to them or with them depending on their ability. This activity focuses on vocabulary and discussing word meaning and not on children’s reading ability.
Aimed at KS1 children.
A set of 20 worksheets with ten different pictures. Each picture includes a sequencing worksheet and a prediction worksheet. The worksheets include a range of activities.
These worksheets can be used as part of guided reading sessions.
Aimed at Key Stage 1 children.
Read a Picture - Sequencing and Predictions - PowerPoint
A set of ten pictures each with sequencing and prediction activities.
For the prediction activities, children need to answer questions about the picture eg what do you think happened before the fish found the treasure chest or what do you think will happen next.
For the sequencing activity, children need to sequence sentences about the picture or complete sentences explaining what they think happened in the story.
This PowerPoint encourages lots of discussion and talk from the children.
**Read a Picture - Sequencing and Predictions - Worksheets
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A set of 20 worksheets with ten different pictures. Each picture includes a sequencing worksheet and a prediction worksheet. The worksheets include a range of activities.
These worksheets can be used as part of guided reading sessions.
Aimed at Key Stage 1 children.
For my Read a Picture Bundle including three Read a Picture PowerPoints and sets of worksheets see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/read-a-picture-powerpoints-and-worksheets-12378068
A set of four Alphabet Game Boards.
Each board contains every letter of the alphabet and four different instructions - write a capital , write a lower case , name this lower case letter or name this capital letter.
Children work their way around the board until one of them reaches the end of the board and wins the game.
These boards help children to learn, practise and remember capital letters and letter names.
Aimed at Early Years and Key Stage 1 children.
A matching activity game that helps children to recognise capital and lower case letters and to think about initial sounds.
This activity game includes 26 lower case letter cards, 26 capital letter cards and 26 picture cards. Children can play against each other or work as a team to match the letters with the correct picture.
Aimed at Early Years and Key Stage 1 children.
A set of alphabet word cards. Each card contains a picture and on the reverse the letters that the children need to write the word. There are 26 cards - one for each letter of the alphabet. Children can write the words and then place the cards in alphabetical order.
Aimed at Early Years and Key Stage 1 children.
Alphabet Loop Cards
A set of 26 alphabet loop/follow me cards.
Each card features a picture and a who has something beginning with __ question. Children must listen carefully to the who has question and see if they have a picture that matches the letter. These cards help children to think about letter names and sounds and to recognise capital letters. These cards can be started on any card.
Alphabet Letter Loop Cards
Two sets of alphabet loop cards. One set covers finding capital letters and the other set covers finding lower case letters.
Each set of loop cards includes 26 loop/follow me cards.
Each card features a capital or a lower case letter and a who has __ question. Children must listen carefully to the who has question and see if they have the matching capital or lower case letter. These cards help children to think about letter names and to recognise capital and lower case letters. These cards can be started on any card.
Match the Letter and Picture Game
A matching activity game that helps children to recognise capital and lower case letters and to think about initial sounds.
This activity game includes 26 lower case letter cards, 26 capital letter cards and 26 picture cards. Children can play against each other or work as a team to match the letters with the correct picture.
Alphabet Game
A set of four Alphabet Game Boards.
Each board contains every letter of the alphabet and four different instructions - write a capital __, write a lower case __, name this lower case letter or name this capital letter.
Children work their way around the board until one of them reaches the end of the board and wins the game.
These boards help children to learn, practise and remember capital letters and letter names.
Alphabet Word Cards
A set of alphabet word cards. Each card contains a picture and on the reverse the letters that the children need to write the word. There are 26 cards - one for each letter of the alphabet. Children can write the words and then place the cards in alphabetical order.
Aimed at Early Years and Key Stage 1 children.
A sample slide from my Read a Picture - Developing Inference PowerPoint.
The full PowerPoint includes nine pictures with guided reading questions and example sentence openers to develop inference in children. Each slide on the full PowerPoint includes a picture for children to look at and talk about followed by questions that appear one at a time for children to think about. Each question is followed by an example sentence opener to encourage children to answer in full sentences.
My class have thoroughly enjoyed being reading detectives and, through practise, will now provide reasons and explanations for their answers. The PowerPoint can be used as a whole class activity or with small groups during guided reading sessions.
Aimed at Early Years and Year 1 children.
For the full set of 9 please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-a-picture-developing-inference-12129299
Set of three differentiated English worksheets focusing on the use of full stops only.
Worksheet 1 - Children copy and add a full stop to one sentence at a time.
Worksheet 2 - Children have to read two sentences at a time and identify where full stops need to be. Children to then rewrite the sentences.
Worksheet 3 - As worksheet 2 and children then add their own sentences with full stops in correct places.
Aimed at Early Years and Year 1 children.
For my complete lesson on full stops please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-when-to-use-full-stops-12141886
A list of Year 1 CEW, common exception words, for children to colour to create their own spelling wall once they can confidently spell each word.
The sheet could be stuck in English books as a record for what children can spell or could be sent home for parents to see how well their children are learning the Year 1 CEW spellings.
For my Powerpoint to support children to learn the Year 1 Common Exception Words please see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-1-cew-spelling-practise-booster-12116557
For my Common Exception Word Bundle see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12211390