Presentation to support Year 2 children in writing a recount about their Christmas Holidays - focusing on the inclusion of conjuctions, time connectives and expanded noun phrases. Includes a model. PDF and editable version included.

Home drawn icons on a bookmark to help children remember to: Use capital letters and full stops. Use finger spaces Write letters the right size Can be used at end of writing lesson as a self-checking plenary. Helped my year 2 class out a lot!

Activity worksheet for children to describe how they imagine the Great Fire of London was, and then develop on this by thinking of questions they’d ask someone who was there. All pictures hand drawn by me.

Three worksheets to help children imagine and describe what the Great Fire of London would have felt like. Encourages children to use their senses and imagination to think of adjectives to describe it. Differentiated with varying levels of scaffolding. Picture hand drawn by me.

Presentation to spark children’s imagination with a starter activity of watching a youtube clip (linked) of fireworks then recording on post-it notes describing words. Also with practice slides for composing sentences to describe. Three differentiated worksheets to help children record adjectives also included, along with a visual aid for tables.

Notebook, hide-the-verbs activity and worksheet included. My year one class loved this lesson - I hid the bossy verbs around the playground and the children had to find them all and do exactly as Little Miss Bossy instructs! We came back into the classroom and they thought of their own , recording on the worksheet, then came up with bossy verb sentences in talk partners. This led very nicely onto our work writing instructions about making Pumpkin Soup (eg. Cut up the pumpkin; boil the soup; blend the soup etc).

Four powerpoints that focus on teaching children about the past tense for phase 6 phonics. Children sat on carpet with whiteboards and composed their sentences in pairs or on their own, then went on to do some follow up work in their phonics books.

Four powerpoint presentations to help support children in phase 6 phonics. This set of presentations moves children onto looking at the long and short vowel sounds, and how we can use these to help us tell when to use the double consonant in past tense spellings (eg. hop goes to hopped, hope goes to hoped).

Phonics presentations aimed at whole class teaching of phase 6 phonics spelling rules - this time getting lots and lots of practice using the present simple and present continuous tense.