What is a dragon? A PowerPoint all about dragons to stimulate writing with dragon images for ‘Quickwrite’ adjective activity. After sharing this introduction the children designed their own dragons, named them and then we watched ‘How to train a dragon featurette’. The children then wrote instructions on how to train their own dragons and we ended the unit of work by writing acrostic dragon poems. For more practical activities and resources visit: www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

A collection of adaptable PowerPoints to help children practice real and nonsense words. For more practical activities and resorces visit: www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

PowerPoint with activities linked to Fairytale characters to introduce using commas in lists. A range of 20 sentence starters for children to use on individual task to reinforce using commas when writing lists. Buy this resource as a bumper package here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spag-pack-for-year-2-11633421

A PowerPoint on how to write instructions used during a Talk 4 Writing lesson focussing on 'boxing up' ideas - template for children to use included.

PowerPoint lesson starter - can you describe the alien using an exclamatory sentence starting with a What or a How and containing a verb (and an adjective or suffix word!) e.g. What a lot of eyes you have! or How brilliantly green you are! or How friendly you look! Photo borders included for children to then draw their own aliens and describe using exclamatory sentences. A really fab and effective lesson! Buy this resource as a bumper package here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spag-pack-for-year-2-11633421

PowerPoint containing postcard from Zap the alien with missing punctuation and activity sheet for children to find and correct the missing capital letters. Postcard template also included for children to then write their own messages. Buy this resource as a bumper package here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spag-pack-for-year-2-11633421

A collection of PowerPoints and activities to introduce, reinforce and review Phase 2 trigraphs. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

A collection of more than 20 PowerPoints that can be used to introduce or review Phase 3 digraphs. Ideal for use with individual whiteboards to play 'Quickwrite' game. This pack also includes editable 'Moshi Monsters' and 'Star Words' challenges. Fun activities linked to The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Ugly Bug Ball. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

A collection of PowerPoints to introduce, reinforce or review Phase 5 sounds including split digraphs - ideal for use with individual whiteboards to play 'Quickwrite.' Roll a word game and 'Magic Spoons' activity sheets also included. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

A range of activities for children to complete linked to reading or library skills including book detectives, find a fact and 'Short and Tweet!' adaptable for EYFS, KS1 and KS2. For more practical activities and resorces visit: www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

A collection of five PowerPoints and four activity sheets that can be used to reinforce phonics during the festive period. Visit Santa's workshop and help the elves by making a list of all the toys (editable) or have a go at scribing the gifts from 'my true love' during the 12 days of Christmas. Could be used as an informal assessment tool to review sounds taught.

A very handy and flexible game (played in pairs/groups) which can be played a few different ways: Option 1: Read it! Roll the dice, choose a word in the corresponding column & read it. If the child is correct they win the word & cover it or colour it. Option 2: Spell it! Roll the dice, choose a word in the corresponding column, read it, your partner covers it & then the child has a go at spelling it. If the child is correct they win the word & cover it or colour it. Option 3: Read it, Spell it! I used this for a mixed Y1 and Y2 pairing where Y1's had to read the words and Y2's had to spell the words. Also included is a table showing all words in the phonics screener since 2011 and a blank game board so you can chop and change words to suit your needs! For more practical resources visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

Can you make a verb alaphabet? Editable activity sheet which could be used for any word groups. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

Ideas sheet to make spelling more fun! More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

Read the poem, draw the picture of the poem, pick out the VIP words and now tell the story.