These two connection Verbal Reasoning activities are based on the poem The Twelve Days of Christmas. Children will use their reasoning skills and knowledge of the poem to identify which word is the odd one out and explain why. Using this activity will provide: Reading practice Poem and Vocabulary reinforcement Explanation practice. Also includes suggested answers with explanations. Ready to print and teach! #reading #apply #christmas #12days #vocab #keyword #oddoneout #reasoning #verbalreasoning Use in conjunction with a variety of my 12 days themed resources: [write a modern version of the poem]( [key word wordsearches]( [model text for thank you letters to the sender of all the gifts]( [Twelve Days of Christmas English Lesson bundle]( Also available in store! Christmas Science - design a jumper Christmas Science - Candy Canes in Liquid Christmas Science bundle Read and draw a snowman Multi-sensory Hot Chocolate Writing task New Year Goal Writing

The full version of the Twelve Days of Christmas poem (and sometimes song) to use in conjunction with a variety of my 12 days themed resources ! Available in both colour and black & white. Ready to print and teach! #reading #apply #christmas #12days #poem #english #ks1 #ks2 #poetry Also available in store! Christmas Science - design a jumper Christmas Science - Candy Canes in Liquid Christmas Science bundle Read and draw a snowman Multi-sensory Hot Chocolate Writing task New Year Goal Writing

Multi sensory Christmas writing - Hot Chocolate Let children enjoy a (not too) hot chocolate and record their experience on the palette of words planning sheet, using their senses of smell, sight, taste and touch. Then help the children create a paragraph of writing using their plan! This pack includes: Palette of words to record multi sensory phrases and help plan and formulate ideas. Four writing frames to publish hot chocolate writing. This planning grid allows learners to prepare, annotate, edit and develop ideas before writing a longer piece. Worried about differentiation? Try: using the grids as a word sorting game, mixed ability groups, small groups with alternate lead writers, reviewing/editing and “magpie-ing”/idea sharing words from each other – and doing so in a different colour! Ready to print and teach! #planning #writing #apply #hotchoc #hotchocolate #sensorywriting #christmas #winter #decode #ks1 #ks2 Also available in store! Christmas Science - design a jumper Christmas Science - Candy Canes in Liquid Christmas Science bundle Read and draw a snowman New Year Goal Writing Twelve Days of Christmas Poem odd one out (reading and reasoning)

**Possessive Apostrophe Bingo ** Use as a bingo game or a matching task. A set of bingo cards for children to match meaning to the possessive apostrophe phrase. This set includes **3 pairs **of phrases and definitions (red and orange, yellow and green, blue and purple), so that the children have to read and match with understanding. AND There are 6 sets which are colour coded so that adults can ensure there are matching sets! Just print, chop and match! Also available in Store: Homophone of the Day PLUS mixed activities: KS1 Read and Draw a Face Read and Draw an Ice Cream Read and draw a snowman Multi-sensory Hot Chocolate Writing task New Year Goal Writing

Three wordsearches for learners to show off their ability to read and identify the keywords in the Twelve Days of Christmas Poem. Includes answers for self assessment Use them for: word reading Home learning literacy centers Use in conjunction with a variety of my 12 days themed resources ! Also available in store! Christmas Science - design a jumper Christmas Science - Candy Canes in Liquid Christmas Science bundle Read and draw a snowman Multi-sensory Hot Chocolate Writing task New Year Goal Writing

A pick and mix choice board of Winter themed literacy activities that can be used at home in class digitally printed and is easily differentiated by outcome! Includes full colour and Black and White versions. Ready to print and use! #reading #apply #winter #holidays #letter #writing #literacy #homelearning #pickamix #ks1 #ks2 #primary #challenges Also available in store! Christmas Science - design a jumper Christmas Science - Candy Canes in Liquid Christmas Science bundle Read and draw a snowman Multi-sensory Hot Chocolate Writing task New Year Goal Writing

A pick and mix board of Christmas themed literacy activities to keep the kids busy (and those writing skills on point too) through the festive season! Use for: home learning early finishers literacy centers Includes full Colour and Black and White versions. Ready to print and use! #reading #apply #christmas #holidays #letter #writing #literacy #homelearning #pickamix #ks1 #ks2 #primary #challenges Also available in store! Christmas Science - design a jumper Christmas Science - Candy Canes in Liquid Christmas Science bundle Read and draw a snowman Multi-sensory Hot Chocolate Writing task New Year Goal Writing

Poem rewrite model and publishing papers. This packet includes a variety of publishing paper and can be printed in B&W or colour. The model text shows how children might use items from their own lives to create a modern version of this poem, but can be used as a springboard for improvements! Model uses adjectives and emulates the rhythms of the original poem. Ready to print and teach! Use in conjunction with a variety of my 12 days themed resources ! #reading #apply #christmas #12days #modern #rewrite #adjective #writingframe Also available in store! Christmas Science - design a jumper Christmas Science - Candy Canes in Liquid Christmas Science bundle Read and draw a snowman Multi-sensory Hot Chocolate Writing task New Year Goal Writing

True or False statements based on the poem Twelve Days of Christmas. Children will use their reasoning skills and knowledge of the poem to identify whether the statements fit the poem or not. There are 3 differentiated levels of statement, and to challenge the kids ask them to make all the statements true! Using this activity will provide: Reading practice Poem and Vocabulary reinforcement Explanation practice Reasoning skills. Ready to print and teach! AND includes answer sheets. #reading #apply #Christmas #12days #vocab #keyword #truefalse #reasoning #ks1 #ks2 #poem #poetry Use in conjunction with a variety of my 12 days themed resources ! Also available in store! Christmas Science - design a jumper Christmas Science - Candy Canes in Liquid Christmas Science bundle Read and draw a snowman Multi-sensory Hot Chocolate Writing task New Year Goal Writing

Do your learners really know what a noun phrase or expanded noun phrase are? Use this full version of the Twelve Days of Christmas poem to highlight them! Add an extra challenge and ask your learners to improve them. Also includes answer sheet. Ready to print and teach! Use in conjunction with a variety of my 12 days themed resources ! #reading #apply #christmas #12days #poem #grammar #enp #poetry #nounphrase #noun Also available in store! Christmas Science - design a jumper Christmas Science - Candy Canes in Liquid Christmas Science bundle Read and draw a snowman Multi-sensory Hot Chocolate Writing task New Year Goal Writing

4 activities and to help learners learn and Includes a set of “Homophone of the Day” task sheets and 3 mixed homophone pair activities to embed learning – with answers! Includes all the **Lower Key Stage Two **Statutory and Non-statutory words: Accept / except Affect / effect Bawl / ball Berry / bury Brake / break Caught / court Fair / fare Grate / great Groan / grown Heal / heel / he’ll Knot / not Mail / male Main / mane Meat / meet Medal / meddle Missed / mist Peace / piece Plain / plane Rain / reign / rein Scene / seen Threw / through Weather / whether Whose / who’s Also available in Store: Homophone of the Day PLUS mixed activities: KS1 Homophone of the Day PLUS mixed activities: UKS2 Homophone of the Day PLUS mixed activities: Primary BUNDLE

4 activities and to help learners learn and Includes a set of “Homophone of the Day” task sheets and 3 mixed homophone pair activities to embed learning – with answers! Includes all the ** Key Stage One** Statutory and Non-statutory words: bear / bare be / bee blew / blue hear / here hair / hare night / knight quiet / quite read / red right / write sea / see son / sun too / two Also available in store: Homophone of the Day PLUS mixed activities: KS1 Homophone of the Day PLUS mixed activities: LKS2 Homophone of the Day PLUS mixed activities: UKS2 Homophone of the Day PLUS mixed activities: Primary BUNDLE

4 activities and to help learners learn and Includes a set of “Homophone of the Day” task sheets and 3 mixed homophone pair activities to embed learning – with answers! Includes all the Upper Key Stage Two Statutory and Non-statutory words: Advice / advise Aisle / isle Altar / alter Affect / effect Ascent / assent Bridal / bridle Cereal / serial Complement / compliment Descent / dissent Desert / dessert Device / devise Draft / draught Farther / father Guessed / guest Heard / herd Lead / led Licence / license Morning / mourning Passed / past Practice / practise Precede / proceed Principal / principle Profit / prophet Prophecy / prophesy Stationary / stationery Steal / steel Wary / weary Also available in Store: Homophone of the Day PLUS mixed activities: KS1 Homophone of the Day PLUS mixed activities: LKS2 Homophone of the Day PLUS mixed activities: Primary BUNDLE

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Dayholt This set of English lessons is part of the available resources for the topic of “Artists”. Includes three FREE resources linked to the planning! This three-phase model covers Grammar, Punctuation, Reading and Writing objectives and allows you to take a more holistic approach to teaching English – showing your students how each strand of the curriculum mesh together in the final outcome! Children will be able to use these new skills to create an “Apprentice Write” and then use these skills to create another piece of writing that they control on a similar, but different theme –in a “Master Write”. Each lesson has a Learning Objective (LO) and there are extension and support tasks also listed.

Leonardo and the Flying Boy by Laurence Anholt This set of English lessons is part of the available resources for the topic of “Artists”. Includes four FREE resources linked to the planning! This three-phase model covers Grammar, Punctuation, Reading and Writing objectives and allows you to take a more holistic approach to teaching English – showing your students how each strand of the curriculum mesh together in the final outcome! Children will be able to use these new skills to create an “Apprentice Write” and then use these skills to create another piece of writing that they control on a similar, but different theme –in a “Master Write”. Each lesson has a Learning Objective (LO) and there are extension and support tasks also listed. #English #literacy #grammar #punctuation #spelling #spag #writing #reading #3phasemodel #keystage1 #ks1 #readytoteach #printandteach #leonardo #davinci #anholt

Four“palette of words” prepared for the topic of “Artists”. Each grid allows learners to prepare, annotate, edit and develop ideas before writing a longer piece. Worried about differentiation? Try using the grids as a word sorting game, mixed ability groups, small groups with alternate lead writers, reviewing/editing and “magpie-ing”/idea sharing words from each other – and doing so in a different colour! Use them for: Colour poetry Descriptive writing Application of grammatical concepts Trip recounts Stories

Vocabulary is key in education! Help your children use ambitious topic related words and spell them correctly too with this clear, but detailed wordbank. Useful for home adults and in class learners alike. #picasso #monet #matisse #vangogh #cezanne #kahlo #laurenceanholt #guidedreading #reading #keystage1 #ks1 #readytoteach #printandteach