To be used as a guided reading comprehension activity alongside Collins Big Cat book The Sun and the Moon. Focus phonemes, tricky word and speed words. Cloze activity questions. Child to draw a picture of the sun or moon and write facts in sentences/captions.

A wordmat designed to mirror the VCOP display board in KS1. Includes VCOP superhero images courtesy of butterbeer and ilovemarmite. Double-sided wordmat - 1 side with VCOP sections, flipside with half-completed pirate similes, and well-known pirate sayings. Useful for writing about pirates or creation of a pirate adventure story.

PowerPoint of What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson (apologies about some of the pictures) along with the shared reading prompts from the Scottish Book Trust.\nI created this as the ladybird was just too hard for a whole class of kids to spot from the picture book!

A big book to be used in a variety of ways: a) At the beginning of the year, when talking about Ourselves - similarities & differences b) PSHE c) Thinking skills d) Speaking é Listening discussions

Countdown game with 16 CVCC words listed

An ActivPrimary flipchart to help children with the writing of the story from the beginning to the problem to the ending. Contains butterbeer's punctuation superheroes to help with sentence ordering.

RWInc style flashcards for grapheme /e-e/ including a caption/ditty: Freeze these peas! Double-sided - first side has the grapheme in large text, the opposite side has a picture and caption.

Designed to be printed 2 to a page. Children can write on to spell, laminate and write with dry-wipe or use grapheme cards/written on bottle tops/stones etc to segment the words: boat, coat, goat, road, foal, goal, soap, coach. Works well as a follow-up to my /oa/ powerpoint or Green goat phonics book powerpoint.

A wordmat split up into Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation designed to be used to help write a report on the Great Fire of London.

Learning to read and write the ar phoneme - differentiated for a mixed Phase 3/4 group. 1. Blending for reading - words 2. Oral segmentation 3. Segmentation for spelling words 4. Reading sentences

A PowerPoint designed to cater for a mixed Phase 3 & 4 lesson focusing on the /oo/ phoneme. 1. Blend to read: Examples of words to read for both pronunciations, as well as a couple of nonsense 'alien&' words. 2. Oral segmentation. 3. Segmentation for spelling. 4. Reading sentences

RWInc style flashcard for grapheme /th/ including the caption/ditty - thick and thin. Double-sided - first side has the grapheme in large text, the opposite side has a picture, caption and includes some other th words.

Differentiated PowerPoint designed to cater for a mixed Phase 3-4 group. 1. Blending for reading words incl pseudo words. 2. Oral segmentation. 3. Segmentation for spelling. 4. Reading sentences.

PowerPoint version of my previous SMART notebook file. A short introduction to describing pumpkins, both on the outside and inside. Activity inspired by A-Z Teacher Stuff (lessons atoz) to make a non fiction pumpkin book. Children to write words, phrases or sentences to describe the outside and inside of the pumpkin. Can cut orange wool and seeds to stick on the inside of the book to illustrate. Also some words on pumpkins as display title Suitable for topics on autumn and Halloween

Character Profile sheet based on Hamilton Trust's version to use in Y1 Narrative Unit 3 on Traditional Tales.

Large display cards for class marking display, a 1 side of A4 size for tables and individual bookmark styles for sticking into exercise books. The symbols are my school's marking policy symbols. Hope this is of use to someone else!

Designed to go alongside gwendelyn's resource (http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Year-1-recount-literacy-plans-with-visit-6026138/) A powerpoint on 'how to grow a dragon/fruit&' and a short recount on going to Tesco to &';buy a dragon'.

PowerPoint lesson plan based on National Schools Partnership lesson 1 Fantastic You! for KS1. Links with the SEAL Good to be me. Unit plan based around Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. Video links used.

A PowerPoint based around characters within fairy-tales. Looking into how characters fit into the story mountain, and adjective use to add interest into the story.

A wordmat designed to mirror the VCOP board. VCOP superhero images thanks to ilovemarmite and butterbeer.