PM Library Story Red Level A Guided Reading focus sheet for children reading at Reading Recovery Level 5 Key phoneme, tricky words (including pictures courtesy of Taming Tricky Words) and Context Words Cloze activity to go with text from the story.

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.

Visual of balancing scales showing 4+2 = 5+1 Could be used alongside Maths Makes Sense ditty "same value, different appearance" Good as an extension task for more able children

A b/w image of a bottle with a b/w treasure map inside. Role-play, literacy writing inspiration... I am planning to roll and tie up with string so children can discover!

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.

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

A set of reading comprehension sheets to go alongside the Lime level books. New vocabulary - write the definition (promoting dictionary skills), answering what, where, why, how questions, writing facts in a list, reviewing the book

Worksheet with long-winded instructions on how to play a board game. Children to re-write the short and clear instruction underneath, ensuring it begins with a bossy (imperative) verb. Can be easily differentiated for your children's needs.

A KS1 instruction template for writing a recipe. Includes sections for equipment, ingredients, method. The second page (photographs and then an evaluation) are for after following the instructions!

A word mat split into sections to mirror the VCOP display board. Using VCOP superhero images courtesy of butterbeer and ilovemarmite This wordmat goes alongside the story Elmer and the Lost Teddy, to help children write their own version of the story.

Could be used as a class or homework sheet. To note down contractions found in a text, write it in its full form, and then keep a tally. You can then interpret the most and least popular contractions in the text.

2 worksheets - 1 to design a board game and 1 to evaluate the game once made.

A set of 10 different blank board game templates for children to design their own board game. Great to be used in Maths or as part of a topic on Toys.

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

A word mat designed to support children's thank you writing after Christmas. Set out to mirror the VCOP board, including question words to prompt.

Step by step instructions to make a snowy trees picture using chalk or oil pastels.

Step-by-step instructions to create a winter landscape. Images and text thanks to http://terristeachingtreasures.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/winter-wonderland-art.html

Designed to be used with drywipe pens, as a worksheet or printed 2 to a page and laminated for use with magnetic letters, graphemes on bottle tops... Words are: letter, ladder, longer, dinner, farmer, hammer, summer, fern

All resources based on Whatever Next! by Jill Murphy 1. 6 pictures in sequential order. 4 differentiated versions for writing a word/caption/sentence. To extend by including a causal connective. 2. To write a list of adjectives to describe a night sky/space setting. 3. Plenary success criteria checklist. 4&5. Differentiated writing frames. 6. VCOP wordmat split up into vocab. connectives, openers and punctuation. Includes picture cues and VCOP superheroes images courtesy of ButterBeer and ilovemarmite.

5 sentences containing pictures to sequence to create a recount about the Moon landing.