I enjoy creating high quality resources to help students achieve their full learning potential. Many of my products contain flexible lesson plans, differentiated worksheets and practical activities and PowerPoint Presentations on a wide range of subjects.
I enjoy creating high quality resources to help students achieve their full learning potential. Many of my products contain flexible lesson plans, differentiated worksheets and practical activities and PowerPoint Presentations on a wide range of subjects.
This beginning/initial consonant blends resource contains differentiated activities which can be used as an added resource to lessons on consonant blends or clusters. Students trace over blends, match correct pictures and complete cut and paste worksheets.
Content:
Consonant Blends Worksheets A - F: Trace and Circle
Consonant Blends Worksheets A - F: Trace and Colour
Worksheets 1 and 2: Matching Pictures to Consonant Blends
Cut and paste pictures for matching activity (Differentiated)
Answer Sheet for Worksheets A - F
Trace and Circle Worksheets:
Students trace over the consonants blends and then draw a line to one of the pictures that begins with the blends.
Trace and Colour Worksheets:
Students trace over the consonant blends and then draw a line to one of the pictures that begins with the blend and then colour in the picture.
Worksheets 1 and 2: Cut and paste differentiated activity
There are three versions of this activity
Students cut out the colour pictures and match them to the correct consonant blends worksheets 1 and 2.
Version 1: The cut and paste sheet contains b/w pictures only. As with the colour pictures, students should cut out and match the correct consonant blends and then colour in the pictures.
Version 2: The cut and paste sheet contains part of the consonant blend word. Students should write in the missing blends to compete the words and then cut out and glue on the worksheets 1 and 2.
There are two versions of the letters ‘f’ and ‘k’.
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Suitable for US
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I have uploaded differentiated worksheets relating to matching initial uppercase and lowercase letters to pictures. Students also trace over dotted alphabet letters.
Aimed at: Reception/Year 1
Total download: 80 Sheets
Content:
Alphabet worksheets with three pictures and letters on each page for students to draw lines to match up. (Lower case letters).
Alphabet worksheets with three pictures and letters on each page for students to draw lines to match up. (Upper case letters).
Alphabet worksheets with three pictures and letters on each page for students to draw lines to match up. (Lower case letters with letters underlined).
Alphabet worksheets with three pictures and letters on each page for students to trace over the dotted letters and then write letters and draw lines to match up. (Lower case letters).
Alphabet worksheets with three pictures and letters on each page for students to trace over the dotted letters and then write letters and draw lines to match up. (Upper case letters).
Students can colour in the pictures.
Laminate for write and wipe: Alphabet worksheets with four pictures and letters on each page for students to trace over the dotted letters and then write letters and draw lines to match up. (Lower case letters).
Laminate for write and wipe: Alphabet worksheets with four pictures and letters on each page for students to trace over the dotted letters and then write letters and draw lines to match up. (Upper case letters).
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This resource relates to the alphabet. There are two sets of activity sheets to support children’s learning of the alphabet.
Aimed at: Reception/Year 1
Each letter activity covers half a page (A5 size) to be cut out.
Download: 29 Sheets
Activity 1: Children can trace inside the ghost letters with different colours and then trace over the dotted letters. Draw pictures beginning with the letter on the activity sheet, e.g. ‘Gg’ pictures.
Activity 2: Children say and sound out the letter, trace inside the ghost letters and over the dotted letters. They should only colour in the pictures beginning with the letter stated. There are 5 pictures for each alphabet and children need to colour in 3 that start with the same letter name/sound.
File Type: Pdf
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This product relates to apple-themed emotions/feelings. There are exercises on when a person experiences two emotions at the same time, e.g. happy and excited about a new baby sister. The worksheets in this product includes gap-filling exercises and answering questions, reading sentences and depending on its context match with two emotions and completing sentences.
Content:
Apple Emotions Gap Filling Exercises (2 pages)
Double Emotions/Feelings Matching Activity Worksheet with and without pictures
Emotions: Writing Sentences using picture word box
Black and white worksheets
Answer Sheets
These are extra social skill worksheets on feelings and can be used in small groups or as a whole class activity. You can pair up good and weaker readers to complete the worksheets/activities.
Total download: 17 pages which incl. colour and b/w worksheets, answer sheets and Teacher Notes.
This product is part of the Apples Bundle
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Learning Objective: To learn why it is traditional to eat Anzac biscuits on ANZAC Day.
<strong>Content:</strong>
• PowerPoint Presentation (7 Slides)
• Reading Comprehension divided into 4 sections A to D.
<strong>PowerPoint Presentation - 7 Slides</strong>
Slides 1 to 6: Explains the difference between hardtack and ANZAC Biscuits which are traditionally baked on 25 April.
Slide 5: Students are asked to identify the difference between the two recipes for hardtack and ANZAC biscuits.
Slides 7: The presentation ends with a review and questions on the topic.
<strong>Reading Comprehension</strong>
The reading comprehension is divided into four sections from A to D.
In each section there are four questions to answer.
The reading comprehension sections include:
• Close reading
• Multiple choice questions
• Punctuation
• Providing their own opinion
• Using their imagination
• Examining differences
• Spellings
Answer Sheet provided.
Triangular page borders by SillyOMusic
File Type: Powerpoint, Word and PDF format
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This resource relates to Would you rather questions. Children must choose one of the questions posed and have the option of saying why they chose that answer.
There are a set of worksheets with follow-up activities and Would You Rather … cards.
You can use:
before the main lesson as a fun activity,
fill in extra time
use in circle time/citizenship
use as a back to school activity to create conversation
use it as a way to get children talking and listening.
Some of questions are funny, silly and make children thing about serious issues in a light-hearted way.
Content:
Teacher Notes
5 Worksheets A to E
52 Cards (laminate to use again and again)
A set of Why cards
Blank worksheets for children to make up their own Would You Rather … questions
Interviewing each other - Select the worksheets you want to use and put children in pairs so that they can interview each other and put a tick next to the question they choose. As a follow-up optional activity, children can write a list of the response of the person they interviewed - please see preview pane.
52 cards - Just shuffle and lay face down on table, players take turns to take a card to read and chose their answer. They must choose one or the other.
You don’t have to use all the cards - you can differentiate and select the cards that you want the children to use.
Some children may want to write their own questions and so a blank worksheet is included.
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This resource relates to CVC phonic word work. These are worksheets you can use to supplement your work on CVC words using the medial vowels a, e, i, o and u. The worksheets are in colour and black and white.
**Optional: **I have now included fillable sections. Students can fill in their names, date and then type in the answers in the highlighted sections of the worksheets.
Students look at the pictures and then choose from a set of 5 letters to spell the three-letter CVC words.
The words are: box, pad, tag, ham, van, cap, rat, bed, peg, ten, vet, wig, win, rip, six, sit, sob, rod, dog, hop, hot, cub, bud, jug, sum, run, cup, cut, web and bug.
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This product is suitable for Kindergarten/Grade 1 & 2.
It uses the story as a context to focus on grammar, word work and text level comprehension.
PowerPoint Presentation on all the lessons - the reading text is on the Presentation for whole class teaching including whole class exercises.
It also includes a lesson plan for 1 to 5 days work relating to:-
Reading comprehension and questions - encompassing listening/speaking and reading/writing (includes inferences)
Sentence work tasks- differentiated to include capitalization and end punctuation mark.
Work on conjunctions and finishing off sentences.
Word work focus on compound words.
Gap filling exercises in sentences.
Cut/paste activities to sequence the story
Grammar work on the future tense - Changing present tense to future tense and vice versa
Composition - Creative writing to complete thinking bubble.
Extension activities
Revision Worksheet on sentences which includes using conjunctions.
Aligns with:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.1A – Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence
CCSS.ELA.Literacy.L1.1.E – Use of verbs to convey past, present, future
CCSS.ELA.LITERACY.L.1.1.G – Use frequently occurring conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or, so, because)
CCSS.ELA.LITERACY.L1.2.B – Use end punctuation for sentences
CCSS.ELA.LITERACY.SL.1.1 – Participate in collaborative conversations
CCSS.ELA.LITERACY.SL.1.2 – Answer key details in a text read aloud
CCSS.ELA.LITERACY.RL.1.1 – Ask and answer questions about key details in a text
CCSS.ELA.LITERACY.RL1.2 – Retell story
Resources printable and editable.
There are a couple of pdf. worksheets - show examples of completed worksheets.
This resource is for Pre-Kindergarten/Kindergarten.
Also suitable for ESL/EFL students and students still finding it challenging to discriminate sounds.
A lovely addition to your phonics lessons and literacy resource center.
Just print onto card paper and laminate - use drywipe pens for activities.
The cards are editable so you can change to black and white print out and stick into students’ book as a record of their phonic work.
Rimes are:-
-at -an -am -ut -un -ug -ox -ot -op -og -it -ip -in -ig -et -en -eg -ed- -ay -ap -ag -um
-ud -ub -od -ix -on -ob -ix and -am.
1. cat
rat
pan
fan
nut
cut
bun
sun
jug
bug
fox
box
hot
pot
hop
pop
dog
log
sit
fit
zip and pip
lip
pin
bin
pig
dig
net
vet
hen
pen
peg
leg
bed
red
hay
say
map
cap
bag
tag
sad
dad
gum
sum
mud
bud
tub
cub
won
ron
pod
rod
cob
sob
six
mix
ham
ram
There are 58 CVC cards and they have a double use.
How to use:-
1. The student looks at the picture and say what it is.
2. When s/he knows what the picture is they attempt to sort out the scrambled word by sounding out initial medial and final letters.
3. S/he then writes the word correctly on the line.
Other uses:-
There are 58 CVC cards which are made up of 29 pairs of onset and rime words and pictures.
- Lay out pairs of cards for the student to match the rhyming pictures and then unscramble the words and write them out correctly.
As an extension they could write funny rhyming lines into their ELA books.
E.g. A bug is in a jug. Dad is mad.
File Type: Word and PDF
This resource relates to room visuals that you can display in your classroom or art area.
There are also two sets of worksheets for each of the colors.
Worksheet 1: Children draw and label four things for each of the colors.
Worksheet 2: Children color in the blank splash with the correct color and then draw and label four things for that color.
<strong>Content:</strong>
• ‘Colors’ Poster for display
• ‘Color Mix’ Poster for display
• ‘What’s your favorite color?’ Poster
• 11 Posters for display naming the colors: red, blue, white, orange, brown, pink black, gray, purple, yellow and pink
• 11 Flashcards naming colors
• 6 ‘What color does …… and …. make?’ Posters - What color does red and green make?
• 2 Sets of worksheets for each color (total: 22)
File Type: Word and pdf.
You may be interested in: Color Activities for PreK/K
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/color-activities-tasks-and-sorting-into-color-groups-cut-paste-prek-kindergarten-11881996
This resource relates to phonics - CVC words. These are Valentine’s Day themed phonic worksheets that you can incorporate into your lessons. Ideal to review segmenting and blending consonant-vowel-consonant words.
Students look at the picture and say the word and then identify and segment each letter so that they can write the three letters above the sound buttons in the blank boxes provided. When they have blended the word, they write out it correctly.
If you are looking to review or assess your students’ level of phonic awareness, then these worksheets are ideal.
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Includes answer sheet.
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List of CVC words in this product:
CVC Words: bag, bat, bed, bib, bin, bus, box, cap, cat, cob, cup, cut, dog, dot, fan, fix, fox, gap, gum, hat, hem, hen, hit, hop, hot, hug, jam, jet, jug, kit, leg, lid, lip, log, map, mix, mop, mug, net, nun, pad, pen, pig, pin, pop, pot, pup, rat, rip, rod, sub, sun, ten, tub, vet, wax, web, wed, wet, wig,
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This product includes two papers sizes A4 and US Letter size - Just download which is most convenient for you.
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UK Version:
<strong><a href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/alphabet-activities-trace-draw-and-colour-pictures-beginning-letters-of-the-alphabet-11698198”>Trace Draw Colour Pictures Beginning Letters</a></strong>
This resource relates to the alphabet. There are two sets of activity sheets to support children’s learning of the alphabet.
Aimed at: Pre-Kindergarten/Kindergarten
Each letter activity covers half a page to be cut out.
Download: 29 Sheets
Activity 1: Students can trace inside the ghost letters with different colors and then trace over the dotted letters. Draw pictures beginning with the letter on the activity sheet, e.g. Gg pictures.
Activity 2: Students say and sound out the letter, trace inside the ghost letters and over the dotted letters. They should only color in the pictures beginning with the letter stated. There are 5 pictures for each alphabet and students need to color in 3 pictures that start with the same letter name/sound.
File Type: Pdf
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This resource relates to adverbs of purpose or reason and is a basic introduction to one word or two word adverbs of purpose.
The sentences are simple and uses common adverbs of purpose. Ideal if you want to do a recap of adverbs of purpose.
It consists of posters or anchor charts which you can display and/or use to teach with.
Content:
Teacher Notes
12 Posters or anchor charts
22 Flashcards of adverbs of purpose (single words and phrases)
Set of 4 worksheets with answers
The worksheet activities comprise of
finding and underlining adverbs of purpose;
completing sentences with appropriate adverbs;
multiple choice question worksheets;
writing ‘why’ questions and working with a partner to answer the questions with adverbs of purpose/reason.
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These reading comprehension worksheet and activities can be used in the lead up to St Patrick’s Day or for your myths/legends unit.
Students can pair up for reading the passages.
This product contains two reading passages and a dedicated worksheet on homonyms.
Worksheet on homophones:
Section A: 7 sentences - students choose and write in the correct word so that the sentence makes sense.
Section B: The words that are not used in Section A, students make up 7 sentences of their own.
E.g. Section A - Saint Patrick is the patron saint of ___________. (Island/Ireland)
Section B - 'Island ’ would be incorrect if used in the above sentence, so in this section students make up a sentence with ‘island’.
Text 1: The Evil Black Pig of Monaghan (St Patrick is challenged to get rid of the pig which causes fear and destruction in the village) contains 4 paragraphs Sections A to D. Students can work in pairs to read the story and then answer the 12 questions.
Tasks included: Searching for answers in the text, gap filling, multiple choice, adding paragraph headings, word work such as finding a compound word, dictionary work.
Text 2: Leprechauns: (Symbol of St Patrick’s Day/Ireland) - Students complete both paragraphs with missing words using the 9 words in the in the word box.
Additional work/Early finishers:
There are 8 tasks to complete in the second part of Text 2 worksheet which relates to various word and sentence work and putting words into alphabetical order.
Answers/Solutions included.
Total pages: 11
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Maths Activities:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/st-patrick-s-day-maths-block-graph-patterns-sequencing-puzzles-numbers-1-20-match-up-worksheets-12080124
Worksheets relating to cvc words.
A lovely addition to your phonics lesson to support phonic work.
Aimed at: Reception/Year 1.
It consists of 2 sets of 54 worksheets together with picture and word cards in colour and black and white.
Teacher's Notes included for suggested activities.
Children look at the picture and say what it is. Then they colour in the letters that make that word. When they have coloured in the letter, the children rearrange them to spell the word and write it on the handwriting guide line.
If some children get stuck, I have included words cards with the same pictures which you can put in the middle of the table for the children to find that matching picture that is also on the worksheet. With the help of the card, children can colour in the correct letters on the worksheet.
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CVC words used:
cat, rat, bag, tag, van, man, sad, pad, nun, sun, hut, cut, net, jet, hen, pen, leg, peg, pin, tin, hot, pot, dog, log, bed, red, bug, jug, zip, rip and lip, cap, map, mop, hop, fox, box, sit, hit, pig, wig, six, mix, sob, cob, ham, yam, pod, rod, tub, cub, mud, bud, sum and gum.
File Type: PDF
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This phonics resource relates to spring-themed consonant digraph worksheet activities. There are three different activities for students to review beginning, final endings digraphs and digraphs that appear in the middle of words. The tasks/activities involve making words and writing, adding missing digraphs and completing a word search and writing own sentences.
Content:
Beginning Digraphs Worksheets A-D: Match and Write
Ending Digraphs Worksheets A-D: Match and Write
Missing Middle Digraphs Worksheets (x2)
Digraph Word Search and Writing Sentences
Answer Sheets for Beginning and Ending Digraphs
Answer Sheets for Missing Middle Digraphs
Word Search Solutions
Teacher Notes
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Beginning Digraphs Worksheets: Match and Write
Students choose the correct digraph to go with the last part of the word.
Ending Digraphs Worksheets: Match and Write
Students choose the correct ending digraph to make a word that matches the picture shown.
Missing Middle Digraphs
As well as reading the sentences, there are picture clues and a digraph box to help students complete the words that are missing their digraphs.
Digraph Word Search and Writing
Students look for the words in the grid and then choose 6 words to write six sentences with.
The worksheets are in colour and b/w and you have the option of two sizes: A4 and US letter size.
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This resource contains two sets of reading comprehension passages relating to the Pilgrims (known as Separatists) and the Puritans (non Separating Puritans) and the Church of England. The aim of each reading comprehension is to show the differences and similarities between these Puritan sects.
You could use this resource as additional information to your Thanksgiving lesson or history lesson on the Puritans in England.
Please note: It does not include the Mayflower Compact or the Thanksgiving Feast with the Wampanoags.
Content:
Teacher Notes
Card 1: Who are the Pilgrims with 12 comprehension questions
Card 2: Who are the Puritans with 7 comprehension questions
Worksheet - Gap filling activity on the Pilgrims
Worksheet - Gap filling activity on the Puritans
Information sheet on the Congregational Way
Also includes PDF fillable spaces which can be completed on digital devices.
UK and US spelling.
The comprehension activities include:
Finding evidence in the reading passages
Vocabulary work
Comparing Card 1 and Card 2
Tick box answers
Students giving their own opinion
Includes specimen answers -
Gap filling activities:
Student A and B work together to complete their worksheets. Student A has the information that is missing on Student B’s worksheet and vice versa. The students are encouraged to read together to complete the activity.
Learning Objectives:
To know the differences and similarities of the Pilgrims and the Puritans.
To know that the Pilgrims and the Puritans settled in different colonies.
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In this resource students read sentences with missing rhyming CVC words and choose the correct rhyming word to match the highlighted word in each sentence. They also complete words with missing beginning and ending sounds and blend to read CVC words.
Set 1: Worksheets A to F - (24 sentences)
There are 4 sentences on each page. Students read each sentence and then match the highlighted word with the correct rhyming word. Students choose one out of the three choices in the box.
**Set 2: Worksheets 1 to 5 **
Students are to use their phonic knowledge to complete each word with a beginning and ending sound. Then they write the words out on the handwriting lines.
**Set 3: Worksheets 1 to 5 **
These worksheets are for students who need practice in sounding out letters in CVC words. He/she sound out each letter pointing to the sound buttons beneath each letter. When they have blended the sound to make the word, he/she can then write the word out. This activity is suitable for one-to-one or small group setting activity.
Hope you find these worksheets a useful addition to your phonics lessons.
There are two worksheets sizes: A4 and US Size
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Related free worksheets:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sentence-work-phonics-cvc-words-cloze-worksheets-activity-distance-learning-12304682
This resource contains more worksheets, cut and paste activities, colouring and an ordinal number puzzle to put together. Great for homework, independent and group work to reinforce ordinal number concept.
Content:
Trace over ordinal numbers and words (2 pages)
Worksheet – Writing ordinal numbers in words up to 10
Worksheet – Reading instructions to colour correct beads
Worksheet - Cloze activity with pictures in a string of beads
Worksheet (Cut/paste) Cloze activity with pictures in beads
Worksheet – (Cut/paste) Ordinal Numbers Activity (1)
Worksheet – Ordinal Numbers In Words Activity (2)
Puzzle – Cut/paste puzzle strip ordinal numbers up to 5
Teacher Notes on activities
Answer sheets included.
**Newly Added: **
Ordinal Number Puzzle Strips up to 10
3 differentiated worksheets - Students complete sentences with ordinal numbers by looking at the stairs which has an item on the first, second, third, fourth and fifth steps. E.g. I can see a _________ on the ________ step.
All the sentences are the same structure only the items they see is different in order to complete the gaps.
The resources are differentiated. If a learner has difficulty writing then he/she can cut/paste and glue.
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US Version
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ordinal-numbers-worksheets-and-activities-2-12282522
LO: To be able to read and write ordinal numbers
To know ordinal numbers tell us a position and/or order in a list
This Advent resource contains a reading comprehension on Worksheet A with 5 questions for the children to answer on Worksheet B.
Worksheet C is grammar and word work on the text. A dictionary is optional if some children find the word work challenging.
Large Advent word search for vocabulary building and associated task. When all the words are found in the grid, there is a separate worksheet for the children to put the words into alphabetical order.
Answers included.
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