I am a middle school teacher with 8 years experience.
Incorporating literacy and numeracy skills over all curriculum areas is my passion. I hope that you find my resources helpful!
I am a middle school teacher with 8 years experience.
Incorporating literacy and numeracy skills over all curriculum areas is my passion. I hope that you find my resources helpful!
A great resource to get learners excited about the Rio 2016!
The resource includes 11 Rio Olympic theme question for students to hunt for along with suggested teaching strategies and answers.
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialized ability is needed! It can form a standalone literacy lesson or can be left as a cover lesson.
Can easily suit other lessons you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to higher Year 5 and Year 9 students.
Suggested ideas for differentiation and extension are provided in the teachers notes.
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A great resource to end your Aztec and Inca unit!
The resource includes:
-Task sheet (editable)
-Criteria sheet (editable)
-1 Classroom lesson
- 2 Computer lesson
- 2 research hint sheets
- Assignment scaffolding
- Modeled answers (differentiated)
-Suggested teaching strategies for each activity
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep is needed! It can form a standalone end of term activity or be used at the end of a unit of study. Can be easily adapted to suit other assignment tasks you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to KS2/ Year 7-9 students.
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Christmas literacy activities.
A great resource to get learners excited about the Christmas 2015!
The resource includes 11 Christmas theme activities, teacher notes and answers:
- 2x pre-poetry activities (mind-map and 5 senses)
- 3x poetry activities – Limerick, Cinquain and Tanka
- 3x Christmas word-search
- Drabble (creative writing)
- Christmas world fact file
- ‘Twas the night before Christmas’ comprehension
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed! It can provide worksheets to help form a standalone English or literacy lesson or can be left as activities in a cover lesson.
The worksheets can be easily adapted to suit other lessons you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to KS2 and lower KS3 students.
Activities are differentiated – outlined in teacher notes.
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The KWLH Technique is just one of many graphic organizers that help students organize their thinking for decision-making, problem solving and reflecting.
It’s a great method to activate prior knowledge and to help students organize information for learning and in the case of this resource improving their results.
This resource has the added benefit of being a great tool to provide evidence for a student’s reflections on their work. I enjoy showing it to parents/ guardians as it helps them understand how they can better support their student at home.
K - What I KNOW
W – What I WANT to know
L – What I LEARNT
H – HOW I learnt it
Booklet provides 4 reflections sheets, for different stages of a unit, which use the KWLH technique.
- Reflecting on the start of a new unit of work
- Reflecting on the current assessment task
- Reflecting on completion of an assessment item
- Reflecting on the next assessment item (how to improve)
This resource is perfect for higher Year 5-10.
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A great resource to give learners at the start of any term, not just at the beginning of the year!
The resource includes 3 worksheets for students to use to reflect on their holidays. The pack also included 2 fun back to school worksheets for students to complete.
-2 truths and 1 lie
-Holiday memories
-Back to school Bingo
-Word scramble
-Back to school word search
-Answers
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed! It can help form a first day back lesson.
Can be easily adapted to suit other lessons you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to Year 4- 8 or KS2 and lower KS3.
Would go great with ‘Back to school – Holiday and Learning Reflections’ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/back-to-school-holiday-and-learning-reflections-11186051
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A great resource to give learners at the start of any term, not just at the beginning of the year!
The resource includes 4 worksheets for students to use to reflect on learning and goal progress. The pack also included 2 fun worksheets for students to use when reflecting on their holidays.
-Comparing and Reflecting on Progress
-Reflecting Rubric
-Learning Reflection
-Classroom Reflection
-Holiday Tweets and Texts
-Holiday Snapshot
-Teacher Notes
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed! It can help form a first day back lesson when students receive their most recent results back.
Can be easily adapted to suit other lessons you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to Years 6-10 or KS2, KS3 and GCSE students.
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An excellent resource of Spirograph images for early finishers to colour in.
The resource includes 16 images for a mindful colouring activity in your tutor time, art or maths class.
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed! It can help form a standalone art lesson or be used as an activity for early finishers in your maths class. It could also be used as an activity during tutor time, free time, class ‘down-time’ after lunch or cover lesson.
This resource can be easily adapted to suit other lessons you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to KS1-KS3 students.
Activities are differentiated, as there are easy patters and more complicated patters to provide a challenge for more able students.
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The KWLH Technique is just one of many graphic organizers that help students organize their thinking for decision-making, problem solving and reflecting.
It’s a great method to activate prior knowledge and to help students organize information for learning and in the case of this resource improving their results.
This resource has the added benefit of being a great tool to provide evidence for a student’s reflections on their work. I enjoy showing it to parents/ guardians as it helps them understand how they can better support their student at home.
K - What I KNOW
W – What I WANT to know
L – What I LEARNT
H – HOW I learnt it
Booklet provides 4 reflection sheets, for different stages of a unit, which use the KWLH technique.
- Reflecting on the start of a new unit of work
- Reflecting on the current assessment task
- Reflecting on completion of an assessment item
- Reflecting on the next assessment item (how to improve)
This resource is perfect for higher KS2-KS3/ Year 5-12.
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Christmas numeracy activities.
A great resource to get learners excited about the Christmas 2015!
The resource includes 12 Christmas theme activities and a number chart and answers:
- 2x Counting – halving numbers
- 3x Counting - addition practice
- 2x Counting practice (1-10)
- Counting with a dice
- 2x Counting – number sequence
- 2x Symmetry drawing
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed! It can provide worksheets to help form a standalone numeracy lesson or can be left as activities in a cover lesson.
Can be easily adapted to suit other lessons you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to early years and KS1 students.
Activities are differentiated – harder number sequences and symmetry drawings and blank addition worksheet and provide a challenge for more able students.
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Behaviour management strategies to build positive behaviour in the classroom and redirect negative behaviours.
Whether you are a new to teaching, need a new perspective or looking for something to use in your next behaviour management professional development these documents are for you!
The resource includes:
- Behaviour chart complete with name tags and adaptable steps
- Back on track cards
- Working it out form
- Incident form
- Positive behaviour letter home
- Detailed instructions for teachers
All simple strategies that you can implement today!
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed! It can form a standalone behaviour management policy or can be adapted and utilized with current behaviour management policies.
These strategies should be accessible to KS2-KS3 students.
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A series of posters to be used in conjunction with the study of any classroom texts.
The posters are designed to be general so that they can be used with any text studied in any subject. The idea is that you have a ‘go to’ set of engaging and differentiated questions and activity prompts, saving you valuable prep time and incorporating high quality learning activities every time!
The series includes:
• Blooms Revised Taxonomy
• Blooms Revised Taxonomy – Verbs
• Blooms Revised Taxonomy – Skill Descriptors
• Blooms Revised Taxonomy – Focus Questions
• Blooms Revised Taxonomy – Check List
• Blooms Revised Taxonomy – Text Questions
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed! It can help to form a standalone literacy lesson or can be left as a cover lesson. It can also be easily adapted to suit other lessons you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to Year 4-9/ KS2 and KS3 students.
Poster allow for activities to be differentiated (Bloom’s Taxonomy) and provide a challenge for more able students.
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Use this display pack to brighten up your classroom while developing your student’s literacy skills though vocabulary. The display acts as a reference and scaffold to prompt students in using vocabulary that relates to the different skills students are asked to write about when unpacking and responding to a text.
2 signpost each with 4 curriculum literacy skills. 40 vocabulary words to create your display and help your students excel in their writing. Teacher notes included on last page.
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Use this display pack to brighten up your classroom and so you never miss a student’s birthday!
This resource has colourful posters for each month and a title poster to complete the display. There is also name tags and teacher notes with a bonus lesson idea.
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Use these inserts to create your own Teacher Diary!
Inserts include:
- a monthly planner (2 months per page)
- weekly planner for up to 6 lessons per day
- weekly to do list including to copy, to prep and priorities
Will help you be organized and remember everything you wanted to cover during your lessons.
Comes in black and white or colour versions
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Use this display pack to brighten up your classroom while developing your student’s literacy skills though vocabulary. The display acts as a reference and scaffold to prompt students in extending their vocabulary in their creative writing.
This resource has 10 posters to use to create your display and help your students excel in their creative writing.
Posters include one key word with 10 synonyms pre poster, one blank poster to create your own classroom vocabulary and teacher notes.
Please note that AU/NZ/UK spelling and US spelling versions are included in this resource.
Key words include – good, bad, looked, very, got, said, sad, happy, went and like.
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A great resource to get learners excited about the Rio 2016!
The resource includes 9 Rio Olympic theme activities:
-Puzzles - Alphabetical sort, word search, crossword
- Literacy activities – Acrostic poem, persuasive writing
- Olympic games activities – Olympic rings, design a medal, my hero, Olympic dream
- Certificate
-Suggested teaching strategies
-Answers
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed! It can form a standalone literacy lesson or can be left as a cover lesson.
Can easily suit other lessons you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to KS2 and low KS3 students.
Suggested ideas for differentiation and extension are provided in the teachers notes.
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Now available as a bundle @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/rio-olympics-2016-themed-literacy-activities-bundle-11285978
A great resource to get learners excited about the Rio 2016!
The resource includes 9 Rio Olympic theme activities:
-Puzzles - Alphabetical sort, word search, crossword
- Literacy activities – Acrostic poem, persuasive writing
- Olympic games activities – Olympic rings, design a medal, my hero, Olympic dream
- Certificate
-Suggested teaching strategies
-Answers
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialized ability is needed! It can form a standalone literacy lesson or can be left as a cover lesson.
Can easily suit other lessons you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to Year 3-6 students.
Suggested ideas for differentiation and extension are provided in the teachers notes.
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Now available as a bundle @ https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/rio-olympics-2016-themed-literacy-activities-bundle-11285993
A great resource to give learners at the start of any term, not just at the beginning of the year!
The resource includes 4 worksheets for students to use to reflect on learning and goal progress. The pack also included 5 fun worksheets for students to use when reflecting on their holidays and 2 fun back to school worksheets for students to complete.
-Comparing and Reflecting on Progress
-Reflecting Rubric
-Learning Reflection
-Classroom Reflection
-Holiday Tweets and Texts
-Holiday Snapshot
-2 truths and 1 lie
-Holiday memories
-Back to school Bingo
-Word scramble
-Back to school word search
-Teacher Notes and Answers
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed! It can help form a first day back lesson when students receive their most recent results back.
Can be easily adapted to suit other lessons you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to Years 4- 8 or KS2 and lower KS3, however the reflection worksheets are accessible to Year 6-10 or KS3 and GCSE students.
Both packs are available individually @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/back-to-school-holiday-reflections-and-activity-pack-11186943 and https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/back-to-school-holiday-and-learning-reflections-11186051
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A great resource to get learners excited about the Rio 2016!
The resource includes Rio Olympic theme displays:
-Medal Tally Poster
- Bookmark/ Border Display
- Bunting
- Bingo
-Olympic Country Report
- Flag of competing country and sport pictographs
-Suggested teaching strategies
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed! The worksheet and game can form a standalone lesson or can be left as a cover lesson.
The displays can easily suit other lessons you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to KS2 and lower KS3 students.
Suggested ideas are provided in the teachers notes.
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Now available as a bundle @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/rio-olympics-2016-themed-literacy-activities-bundle-11285978
Christmas literacy and numeracy activities Bundle.
(See my other Christmas resource pages for individual packs)
A great resource to get learners excited about the Christmas 2015!
The resource includes 20 Christmas theme activities and answers:
- 2x Beginning sounds – writing the letter
- 2x Beginning sounds – circle the correct letter
- 2x Christmas word-search
- Christmas words snap game
- 2x Christmas story with puppets
- Letter to Santa Claus
- 2x Counting – halving numbers
- 3x Counting - addition practice
- 2x Counting practice (1-10)
- Counting with a dice
- 2x Counting – number sequence
- 2x Symmetry drawing
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed! It can provide worksheets to help form a standalone English or Maths lesson or can be left as activities in a cover lesson.
Can be easily adapted to suit other lessons you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to early years and KS1 students.
Activities are differentiated – harder word search, Christmas vocabulary, number sequences, symmetry drawings and blank addition worksheet provide a challenge for more able students.
Want to try before you buy? Download my free Christmas resource.
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