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 is a cut and paste resource relating to the alphabet. Aimed at students learning upper and lower letters.
A useful resource when you are introducing a new letter of the alphabet.
<strong>Content: </strong>
• Upper case letters with pictures
• Lower case letters with pictures
• (3 sheets) - Alphabet Pictures a to z -
There are 4 pictures for each letter of the alphabet (except for ‘x’)
• Example of a worksheet for letter C
• Set of plain letters
<strong>Activities:</strong>
Introduce the letter you are working on, e.g. T or t, and ask children what words begin with that letter.
As an independent activity - set out a selection of pictures with different letter sounds for children to choose the correct pictures to stick around the letter ‘t’. See preview pane example for letter ‘c’.
Children can decorate the letter after their cut and paste activity
More able children can draw more pictures for their letter and label their pictures.
Also included: Extra set of large upper and lower plain letters.
File Type: Pdf and Publisher.
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This presentation pack comprises 5 PowerPoint Presentations.
Aim: To develop children’s knowledge of the alphabet (upper/lower case letters) and sound and letter correspondences.
Just choose a presentation and play.
The 5 presentations all include animation. (Shortcut for Slide View press f5 tab) .
Each presentation can be used as lesson starters, standalone lessons or as a plenary.
Teacher Notes also included.
General description:
Children recite the alphabet as they appear in alphabetical order:
with letters, pictures and words
capitals letters only
lower case letters only
a mix of lower and upper case letters (children name the letters as they appear)
interactive alphabet pictures and words (a-z) with each picture linked to Slide 28 that contains a table of words linking back to each picture on the slides. You can click on the links to go back and forth to pictures and words.
See Preview Panes.
Other Alphabet resources: Learning the Alphabet lesson
Learning the Alphabet includes lesson plan and worksheets
File Type: PowerPoint Presentation
This comprehensive phonics resource covers all the activities students will need to reinforce reading and writing skills, segmenting and blending CVC words.
A great addition to your phonics lessons.
Ideal for students to practise sounding out and blending letters
Reinforces segmenting and blending for reading and writing CVC words
Ideal as an ‘early finishers’ resource
Use to assess phonics progress
Content:
Cut and paste activities
Jumbled words
Writing and matching activities
Mini CVC Word search strips
CVC Carousel activity - Finding CVC pictures and writing the words on a pre-prepared worksheet.
Writing simple sentences to pictures worksheet
Sorting CVC words
Creating CVC/word families using puzzles
Spelling CVC words with picture clues
Complete cloze activity with matching rhyme word
Complete words with beginning and ending sound
CVC Word Searches (34 words with Solutions) 2 word searches per page
CVC Word Families Phonics worksheets - 3 tasks per worksheet
CVC Word Families Worksheets - Find odd-one- out picture
CVC Word Families Read Write Phonics Worksheets
CVC Read Write Sentences Missing Rhyme Words Blend to Read 2
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This literacy resource includes:-
PowerPoint Presentation on all the 5 lessons.
The lessons focus on the short reading text.
- Whole class teaching activities;
- reading comprehension - listening and speaking;
- story sequencing activity;
- work on speech marks in sentences;
- speech bubbles;
- work on contraction of common words using the apostrophe - e.g. we'll;
- Add speech marks in text;
- Writing composition - finishing the story.
All resources can be adapted.
You may be interested in other reading comprehension packs:
Reading Comprehension Packs
All images are royalty free accessed from Microsoft clipart.
This phonic resource comprises a PowerPoint Presentation on:
Consonant digraphs - ch, sh, th,ng
Vowel digraphs/trigraphs:
ai, ee, igh, oa;
oo (long/short), ar, or;
ur, ow, oi, er
ear, air, ure
combinations of digraphs- eg chair,torch, coach
Answers in pdf. Reading Sentences
Word Searches
There is a reading text on PowerPoint for whole class reading activity.
True or false questions on PowerPoint relating to the text.
Drawing pictures to go with simple sentences.
Reading text and choosing the correct word to insert in the sentence.
Missing graphemes and jumbled words activities.
Reading captions and sentences.
Blank handwriting sheet
All resources can be adapted.
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and
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/phonics-onset-and-rime-activity-bundle-11576490
Reading comprehension short story text that focuses on particular aspects of the English language, grammar and word work.
This literacy resource comprises PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson Plans with learning objectives and worksheets and activities.
There is also an extra lesson plan (includes learning objectives) and PowerPoint Presentation on characterisation with differentiated worksheets.
Also suitable for teaching in small groups.
The Presentations contain whole class activities.
Lessons comprise:
Reading comprehension - speaking/listening and includes reading/writing
Cut/paste activities to sequence story
Answer sheet with sequenced pictures.
Recount story in own words activity with pictures to encourage writing.
Sentence work - jumbled sentences (cut/paste), adding capital letters/full stops - differentiated worksheet activities.
Read and write - gap filling exercises.
Word work is on proper and common nouns - differentiated worksheets.
Work on characterisation - describing and creating a character for Grandad’s new dog.
Playscript - comparing playscript structure to story text.
Children in groups - write out their playscript based on the story - differentiated activities - There is a separate PowerPoint Presentation. Children that need support can act out the play.
All resources editable and printable.
Images free from royalty.
This reading comprehension literacy resource includes:-
Comprehensive PowerPoint Presentation on all the lessons - the reading text is on Presentation for whole class teaching including whole class exercises.
Literacy lessons for a week focussing on the short story.
Reading comprehension questions
Capital letters and full stops
Joining two parts of a sentence
Jumbled words
Focus on use of adjectives to write interesting stories
Writing simple sentences
Composition
Labelling pictures using descriptive words
Reading texts and illustrating
Worksheets and activities
All the worksheets can be adapted.
A total of 6 sets of reading comprehension packs containing comprehension questions, differentiated worksheets, beginning to write a playscript, grammar and word level work using the short story texts.
- All stories are presented on PowerPoint for whole class shared reading and activities
- Grammar focus - e.g. verb agreement, present, past and future tenses
- Sentence work - e.g. ull stops, capital letters, inverted commas, question marks, exclamation marks
- Word level work - e.g. compound words, adjectives, adverbs.
- Creative writing - featured texts encourages children to write their own ending to a story or create their own.
Have a look at the individual packs for more information.
Use each one throughout the year as your class progress.
Also included a sample of one my free resources on dictation with audio and teacher's notes.
This bundle contains resources on the topic of minibeasts with an added bonus product:
Counting and Adding with PowerPoint presentations
Missing Numbers 0 -5 and 1 - 10 activities
I Have…Who Has? Loop card games
Dominoes cards
Word Searches
Crosswords
Spin and write minibeast activity
Minibeasts Bingo
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You may be interested in the Counting/Adding Minibeasts and Subtraction Bundle. Please click link for preview.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/counting-addition-and-subtraction-bundle-minibeasts-and-wild-animals-themes-12286469
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This bundle contains 6 sets of resources to organize your classroom.
It also includes ready-made flashcards for whole class teaching.
It comprises:
Cardinal numbers
Ordinal numbers
Colors
2D/3D Shapes displays
Subject displays/Labels for objects around the classroom
Editable classroom ‘Helpers Today’ poster
And much much more!
This single phonics pack focuses on initial consonant blend ‘dr’ CCVC words.
As with the other consonant blends packs:
it is child-centred
child-friendly and
a step up from CVC and CCV to Phase 4: Letters and Sounds Phonics.
It is an addition to my other resources on initial consonant blends.
This smaller pack contains:
Lesson Plan with learning objectives, lesson starter, main activities and plenary - You can choose which parts are relevant to your class. PowerPoint slides are referred to in the plan.
PowerPoint Presentation 1 - includes explanation of initial blend, CCVC words and whole class activities to prepare children for their independent activities.
PowerPoint Presentation Phoneme Count - Again, as in the others, I have listed all the CCVC words and the units of sound above the fingers so that children can see and hear the separate phonemes (with pictures).
Encourage children to make simple sentences with the words to understand its meaning and distinguish between nouns, verbs or adjectives.
Flash cards and words with and without sound buttons and lines.
Set of pictures and words for matching activities.
Differentiated Activity Sheets 1, 2, 3 - for cut/paste work, writing sentences and reading and matching words to pictures.
You can combine the set of pictures and words with the other resources I have done on consonant blends - creating a set of pictures and words for future use.
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Relates to Letters and Sounds: Phase 4 CCVC (consonant, consonant, vowel, consonant) words. The vowel will represent one sound and can be a vowel, digraph or trigraph, e.g. fright - f-r-igh-t.
Aimed at: Years 1 and 2 and/or children still finding it challenging to segment and blend, ESL/EFL students and SEN students.
Use in English language learning classes - use pictures as a visual prompt to segment and blend words.
This pack includes
Teacher Notes
4 sets of differentiated initial consonant blend strips - each set contains 21 initial consonant blends.
Plain strips - Children look at the picture, read the word and write it out.
Trace over dots strip - Children look at picture, trace over dots and then write out the word
Trace over dash lines - Children practise tracing over the words
Jumbled word strip - Using the picture as a clue, children sound out and write the word correctly.
handy for early finishers.
suitable for use in small group settings
Children can practise reading, segmenting and blending words.
Discriminate between initial blends beginning with the same phoneme - clap-crab.
As an extension: Write up the word in their workbooks and write a simple sentence with the word using it as a verb, noun or adjective.
Optional: Print, laminate and cut out.
You have the option of reducing the strips on the photocopier, cut out and stick into children’s workbooks to record phonic work.
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This resource relates to St. George’s Day (23 April).
In contains:
A Presentation (48 Slides) on St. George.
The presentation starts with a welcome to the whole school.
It then shows a stain glass window of St George and arrows pointing to the cross and the shield with St. George cross.
There are questions and answers throughout the presentation to involve the children.
It is divided into sections:-
Background to St. George’s life
Courage
Around the World
The Legend
Celebrations
Reflections
It ends with a prayer relating to courage.
A detailed Teacher’s notes on assembly referring to each slide
Follow-up worksheet
There are follow-up activities in the presentation that children can find out about using non-fiction books and the ICT, e.g. find out more about countries that celebrate St. George’s Day.
A short playscript for assembly - this is optional if you want a group of children to act out the legend.
Please see preview pane of some of the slides in the presentation.
This Weather Bundle contains:
PowerPoint Presentations on the water cycle and clouds
Flexible Lesson Plans
Matching Activities
Cut and Paste Tasks
Reading Comprehensions - Snow, Sleet and Hail
Worksheets
Flash cards for water cycle and clouds
Weather Instruments
Fun stuff
Students will learn about the water cycle and types of clouds and types of precipitation, i.e. why some clouds produce rain, snow, sleet and hail.
Lots of resources are to hand.
Some preparation is required such as printing and laminating small photos of clouds for matching activities.
Please see individual description for each product.
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UPDATED WITH LESSON ON ADVERBIALS.
This bundle contains 6 products relating to the six different types of adverbs as listed below:
Adverbs of Manner
Adverbs of Time
Adverbs of Frequency
Adverbs of Place
Adverbs of Degree
Adverbs of Purpose/Reason
Adverbial Phrases and Fronted Adverbials
A great product to support your teaching of the different types of adverbs and adverbial phrases that act as adverbs.
You can adapt each product to the level of your class.
Teacher’s notes are included for each product.
Optional: You may just want to use the flashcards for speaking and listening activities and get students to construct their sentences orally using adverbs.
Each product contains display posters to remind students of the general rules. You may not need to display all of them.
There are also vocabulary cards which you can use as flashcards for teaching and then display on your word wall.
Differentiated Worksheets
There are sets of worksheets in each product for students to practise using the different kinds of adverbs and how to use adverbial phrases.
Reading comprehension and associated tasks on adverbials and fronted adverbials.
retrieving answers
inference and interpreting
vocabulary work
creative writing to include adverbials
Please see individual descriptions.
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An ideal resource to add to your literacy area/centre.
Extra worksheet added - Worksheet 5.
Create a visual display of adverbs of manner/create a Word Wall.
This resource includes display cards describing what adverbs do and basic spelling rules as a visual reminder for your students.
Includes: Extra blank cards for children to add more adverbs.
- Adverb title card
- 10 x A4 size display cards (you can enlarge on copier)
- 69 (colour-coded) adverbs of manner flash cards (print and joined up writing) - you can display some of the common adverbs - includes irregular adverbs - hard, fast and well
Extra: 4 sets of Worksheets to practise:
Worksheet 1 (2 pages) - (Changing adjectives to adverbs) - (Differentiated)
Worksheets 2 (2 pages) - Writing sentences with adverb and verb, e.g. walk/slowly - Sentence: Meg will walk slowly to school.
Worksheet 3 - 1 page Adverbs describing adjectives.
Worksheet 4 - 1 page Adverbs describing past participles.
Worksheet 5 - (Differentiated) - (Harder) Students complete sentences using their own adverb of manner.
(Easier) Students can use their own adverbs or use the words in the word box to complete their sentences.
Adverb game:
You can use the flash cards to play an adverb game. Shuffle, say 6 cards, either you or the children choose a verb. Then choose a child to pick a card and they do the action for that verb depending on what the adverb is, e.g. wave happily.
Laminate the displays and flashcards for repeated use.
This resource goes well with reading comprehension A Snowman In The Park.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-comprehension-text-adverbs-said-synonyms-direct-speech-presentation-worksheets-keystage-1-11478618
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This single phonics pack focuses on initial consonant blend ‘gl’ CCVC words.
As with the other consonant blends packs:
it is child-centred
child-friendly and
a step up from CVC and CCV to Phase 4: Letters and Sounds Phonics.
Increases children’s vocabulary.
Aimed at: Reception and keystage 1, SEND and ESL/EFL students.
It is an addition to my other resources on initial consonant blends.
This pack contains:
Detailed Lesson Plan with learning objectives, lesson starter, main activities and plenary - You can choose which parts are relevant to your class. PowerPoint slides are referred to in the plan.
PowerPoint Presentation 1 (31 Slides)- includes explanation of initial blend, CCVC words and whole class activities to prepare children for their independent activities.
PowerPoint Presentation Phoneme Count ((12 Slides) - Again, as in the others, I have listed all the CCVC words and the units of sound above the fingers so that children can see and hear the separate phonemes (with pictures) - Referred to in the lesson plan.
Encourage children to make simple sentences with the words. Some meanings of words are shown through pictures and speech bubbles.
Option for children to use the dictionary to look up the word gloat, gloom and glib - meanings are illustrated in PowerPoint Presentation Phoneme Count.
Flashcards of CCVC words with and without sound buttons and lines.
Set of pictures and words for matching activities.
Differentiated Activity Sheets 1, 2, 3 and 3a and 4 - for cut/paste work, writing sentences, reading and matching words to pictures.
You can combine the set of pictures and words with the other resources I have done on consonant blends - creating a set of pictures and words for future use.
Ideally laminate the set of flashcards and picture/word cards.
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I have now bundled related UK money worksheets and activities as follows:
Money Christmas-themed addition and subtraction (Receiving change)
Money problem worksheets count, add, subtract and draw coins to match price tags
Cut and paste money activities up to 10p and to £2.
Two-step money problems worksheets
Money task cards adding up mixed coins to the value of £5.
Money task cards - giving change
Money worksheets - giving change from £5 and £10 and associated word problems
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This growing bundle of resources relates to the alphabet together with worksheets, activities. presentations. It includes:
Detailed Lesson Plan plus worksheets and whole class activities
5 Sets of PowerPoint Presentations
Extra worksheets for ongoing teaching of the alphabet
Tracing/Handwriting lower and upper case letters
Drawing and colouring of pictures relating to each letter of the alphabet
Matching pictures to the correct letter
Missling letters - Alphabet gap-filling exercises
Alphabet Clip Cards
Alphabet Uppercase Lowercase Letters Trace Colour and Find
Alphabet Puzzled Shaped Letters with Sentences
Alphabet Writing Initial Uppercase/Lowercase Letters and Pictures
PLUS THREE FREEBIES
The benefits of purchasing this bundle early is that any new resources added can be downloaded at no extra cost.
Please see preview panes.
Please see individual products for more detailed descriptions.
You may be interested in the US Version:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/alphabet-bundle-us-12693308
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This bundle contains resources relating to consonant digraphs:
ch, sh, th, ck, ng, ph and wh
Content:
PowerPoint Presentations
Listening activities
Sorting activities
Lesson Plans
Worksheets
Reading and writing
Consonant Digraphs worksheets and reading comprehension
Consonant Digraphs Clip Cards/Task Cards
Please see individual descriptions for each product.
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