A week’s worth of whole class reading for the Smartest Giant in Town for year 2. Focusing only on the retrieval domain. All activities are differentiated.

Activinspire and publisher needed to access. Four lessons around the book aimed at year 2. Covers domains- inference, predicting, retrieval and sequencing.

Two week’s worth of resources for whole class reading for year 2 based on ‘The Bear and the Piano’. Covers all reading domains. Activinspire and publisher needed to use the files. All lessons are differentiated at least twice.

Two week’s worth of whole class reading based around Fantastic Mr Fox aimed at year 2. Each activity is differentiated (usually three ways) and a range of domains are covered. You will need to have activinspire and publisher to use this resource.

Whole class guided reading flipchart and activities based on the story ‘Traction Man’. Comes with exerts and differentiated activities. Covers a range of reading skills- inference, prediction and retrieval.

A week long flipchart and resources to be used as a whole class read for year 1 based on the book ‘Where the wild things are’. Covers the domains- inference, sequencing, retrieval, prediction, vocabulary. Only open if you have publisher and activinspire otherwise it wont work. Activities are differentiated.

As part of our Wind in the Willows topic we looked at adding the plurals s and es. I cut up items of food and hid them around the classroom to find, saying that Ratty had lost the food from his picnic. I then told the children that Ratty wanted to have a picnic with his friends but he needed a shopping list of what to get. We received a letter from Ratty who explained the rules and watched a video on plurals and recapped. The children were to use their word mat (with pictures) to write a list of how many of each thing they needed. LA children needed to add s or es to words on their sheet. MA had words where no change to the root word was needed e.g. sandwich- 4 sandwiches. I threw in jelly for the HA and we had a chat about changing the y to an i before adding es. There was then a challenge on the board for children to complete. The children wrote their list on notepad paper.

I have created these for the phonics activity during my guided reading carousel sessions for my year 1 class. There is one word sort for ch and sh words for my children still working on set 1 and an ar and ow sort for those who are revising set 2.

A presentation and resources to last over 9 sessions for the story ‘The Lion Inside’. Each lesson is linked to one of the reading domains. The activities are differentiated and aimed at year 1. You do need activinspire to access these resources.

An active inspire flipchart and differentiated activities accompany whole class guided for year 1 based around the story ‘Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book’. The pack comes with differentiated extracts from the story as well as differentiated follow up activities. All are linked to the VIPERS and reading domains. This will only work if you have active inspire downloaded as the presentation is on a flipchart NOT powerpoint.

A lesson plan, flipchart and resources for 2-3 weeks whole class guided reading using the book ‘My Friend the Weather Monster’ depending on how often you do whole class guided reading. The planning and flipchart is linked to the Vipers and domains for teaching guided reading. This will only work if you have active inspire already downloaded as it is a flipchart NOT a powerpoint.

A range of different resources created to get year 3 children to write persuasively. Resources include starters, main group activities and a powerpoint. Gets children thinking about what a good advert looks like and what techniques we can use in persuasive writing. The overall aim of the unit of work was to be able to sell products to ‘dragons den’. The children were asked to design their own tea and to persuade the rest of the class to buy it. This can be linked to DT as the children then can design and make their product.

A lesson used to introduce my year 1 class to the possessive apostrophe (they have already seen apostrophes in contractions) when creating their own fairy tale character ready for a story they are going to write. The pack includes a powerpoint which introduces the children to the possessive apostrophe and then gets them to apply what they have learnt by asking them to choose the correct use of the possessive apostrophe. I then asked the children to create their own fairy tale character using the character description frame. Afterwards we wrote about our character using imaginative description and using the possessive apostrophe. The pack also contains a blooms taxonomy higher level sticker for your early finishers and a writing frame for LA children to use when describing their character.

A set of 7 of the Thinker's Keys for year 1 and 2 linked to the book 'Lost and Found' which we used as a topic. The thinker's keys are used to promote a higher level of thinking. The children in my class worked in pairs to complete the different keys and absolutely loved doing it!

A weeks worth of powerpoint resources for phase 5 phonics. The powerpoint covers the alternative pronunciations: a, y, ch and ou and the tricky words many, laughed, because, different, any, eyes, friends, once and please. The powerpoint follows the introduce, revisit, teach, practise and apply lesson structure and there are opportunities for children to read and write different words as well as sorting different sounds and revisiting the phase 5 sounds we have already learnt.

A lesson created to teach year 1 pupils about the past and present tense and how to add -ing and -ed to change the verb from past to present tense within writing. The presentation starts the children thinking about the difference between a sentence in the past and one in the present. It then looks at how to add -ed and -ing to the root word to change its meaning. For their independent tasks the children are to write two sentences about the picture; one present and one past tense, using what they have learnt about suffixes. The powerpoint is linked to our theme which is Antarctica and penguins.

A range of different 20 minute GP&S activities for year 1. Each activity has a title slide, a whole class activity or teach section and an independent task which may involve a group discussion or independent writing. This powerpoint covers when to use capital letters, using commas between adjectives and in lists and nouns and pronouns. Some of these activities have been created to recap areas which have already been taught and others are to teach new things.

A whole week's worth of phonics lessons. This resource covers the alternative pronunciations; ow, ie, ea and er as well as the tricky words; water, where, who, again, thought, through, work and mouse. The Powerpoint follows the letters and sounds book and has an introduction, revisit, teach, practise and apply section to each lesson. The revisit is different each day and covers not only practising phase 5 sounds but also looking back at reading previously taught tricky words and spellings.

The whole weeks lessons for the phase 5 phonics sounds a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e and u_e. The powerpoint contains activities and chances to introduce the new sound, revisit sounds the children have already learnt, an opportunity to practise reading words containing the new sound and the chance to apply what they have learnt through reading sentences, finding real and nonsense words or writing a word on their whiteboard.

A SP&G lesson on coordinating conjunctions. This was used when teaching my year 1 children what a coordinating conjunction was for the first time. Begins with a revisit of what we know about main clauses and simple sentences and then moves on to looking at coordinating conjunctions. There is an activity at the end of the powerpoint where the children are to choose the best coordinating conjunction to complete the compound sentence.