Small pictures designed to be used to support recount writing of the story.

Differentiated sheets based on initial recounts.

A simple PowerPoint introducing St Patrick and how the 17th March is celebrated.

A short PowerPoint to introduce comic strips to children. Looking at the different features such as caption boxes, speech bubbles, thought bubbles, action words. Links well with the topic of Superheroes.

Writing frames differentiated on ability. Children to draw a picture to reflect the beginning, middle and end of the story, and either write a sentence, caption or beginning/middle/end or trace over words.

Differentiated worksheets. Children to add 'ing' and make a verb

A selection of real and 'alien' pseudo words containing either the /ee/ /ea/ or /e-e/ grapheme. Alien words have an image of alien to assist preparation for the Phonics Screening. Children can write on their sound buttons to help read the word. Also a powerpoint containing all the words to read as a whole class

A powerpoint and worksheet designed to help children read real and pseudo 'alien' words from the /or/ /au/ /aw/ phoneme family. Designed to help children prepare for the Y1 Phonics screening test.

Non-fiction book on (pet) rabbits. Designed either to be viewed on the interactive whiteboard or printed and made into a book for shared reading sessions. Could be used as a topic introduction or independent reading.

A simple minibeast riddle powerpoint. Print out 2 or 4 to a page as reading and matching cards. Spider, frog, butterfly, slug, snail, bee, millipede, ladybird.

Pictorial recipe, pictorial sequencing instructions and sequencing pictures. Planning included.

A pdf set (so can easily be resized as necessary) containing: 1. A display title 2. Differentiated cloud-shaped writing frames 3. Cloud-shaped captions

Loosely based on the Brown Bear story by Eric Carle, I’ve made a simple book for Shared Reading/Phonics sessions focussing on the digraphs oa, ee and ea.

A writing frame to create an information poster on the growth cycle of a bean.

A set of statements to be cut up for children to read and sort into fact and fiction. A second set has been provided with the tricky words written in red for ease of newer readers. Also, a simple Fact or Fiction table to be enlarged to A3 for the statements to be put/stuck onto.

A Y1 phonics screening practice activity to draw the sound buttons and then read real and 'alien' pseudo words for the /oa/ family plus a powerpoint to practice reading the words as a whole class

Graphemes and pictures related to items seen at Thornton Reservoir in Leicestershire. Grapheme prompts to assist children in the use of digraphs and trigraphs when writing. Also an editable Word version, easily adaptable for your own local country parks and reservoirs.

Children to each research a country playing in the Euro 2016 tournament. To complete the sheet with the name of the country they are following, the capital city and any languages spoken. Also to draw and colour the national flag, colour in where the country is on the map and colour in the country's Euro 2016 football strip.

To be used alongside a practical sound hunt, listening to sounds in the environment. Using sound vocabulary, such as quiet and loud, other words can easily be substituted. A short song/rhyme has been included at the end, to recap that sounds are heard by the ears, one of the 5 senses.