“Colour My Home” is a fun colouring resource designed to help children (and English Language learners) learn about familiar objects found in a typical home and associated vocabulary. This resource is structured into 10 pages, each showcasing 6 different colour objects typically found around the house. Each page features a colour image of the objects alongside a corresponding black-and-white outline for colouring and matching. Cards can be cut out and sorted in different ways e.g. by rooms, colour, inside or outside the house, furniture, electrical items and many more.

This resource set is designed for KS1 and focuses on sports activities, perfect for integrating into sports day, lessons on keeping healthy, physical education, English Language learning and Literacy development. Contents: Poster: A black-and-white poster featuring 10 children engaged in various sports activities. Children can colour in the poster and discuss the different sports they see / like. Worksheets: 10 Sports Worksheets: Each worksheet features one sport, providing space for children to write about it. Question Sheet: An additional sheet with questions that children can refer to while writing about each sport. 2 Identification Worksheets: Two worksheets with pictures of children participating in different sports. Children will write the name of each sport next to the corresponding picture. Educational Links: • Sports Day • Keeping Healthy • Physical Education • Reading, Spelling, Writing, Speaking and Listening

This resource based on Occupations, spans 6 colourful pages, each featuring 8 cards showing a range of occupations. The cards prompt children to use the initial sounds under the pictures to identify and write the name of each occupation. The cards support speaking and listening and vocabulary development. Key Features: • Visual and Phonics Integration: Each occupation card includes an image accompanied by its initial sound, aiding children in connecting phonetic clues to the correct occupation name. • Word Banks: Two additional pages provide word banks to support spelling, allowing children to cross-reference and ensure accuracy in their writing. • Educational Connections: The cards integrate with curriculum topics on the World of Work, enhancing both phonics and literacy skills in a real-world context. • Versatile Usage: Cards can be duplicated, cut, and laminated for various interactive activities, such as matching games and sorting into types of professions. Children may also consider jobs they might like to do and any others that are not shown.

In this activity, children will explore different symbols related to school life. They will see pictures of classroom essentials, activities, and some of their favourite places around the school such as the ‘sports’ hall or the library. The aim is to identify each image and write its corresponding word in the boxes provided. To help kick start this journey, already provided are three words for each page, that can be traced over. There are 3 pages in colour and the same 3 in black and white. Links to School, Ourselves, Writing and Handwriting, English Language Learning. Boardmaker licenced.

Set two in this Dingbat Visual Word Game series. Let’s cheer up Fridays (or any days), with this Dingbats Visual Word Puzzle for Kids or the whole family. 28 Picture clues for children to solve, complete with a blank answer template and an answer sheet. Works well on Zoom too!

Children will have fun with these games for any time or the end of the term or school year. There are 12 cards to choose from. The aim of the game is for children to choose a letter of the alphabet for their chosen card and then answer the questions verbally or written e.g. the blue card catergories are hospital, family, cafe, chemist, winter and summer. If a child chooses the letter C, then answers could be: cousin for family; coffee for cafe; cough medicine for chemist, cold for winter and cool for summer. Each of the 12 cards has 6 different categories on them. The game could be carried out with a timer or a bell ring to signify the end. Add points to make it more interesting. Links to speaking and listening and works well in groups, pairs or against the clock. Useful for children learning English as a second language increasing vocabulary and understanding.

Brighten up your classroom displays with these Colours Display Cards. There is a landscape full page poster showing the word Colours. Next there are 4 pages each showing 4 different colours e.g. blue, green, red and yellow and indigo, rose, beige and gold. Cut out and laminate the cards and use in your teaching of colour such as colour sorting and for your displays. The final page is a template with the colour pencils border for children to use for writing or drawing.

Use these spelling certificates to motivate and reward your children for their read, write and spelling work. Each of the 10 certificates is the same but a different colour. You can use the certificates as they are or use as a differentiated assessment tool. E.g Yellow might equate to 5 words children can spell Blue could be 10 etc. Write the number of words on the certificates that children can read, write and spell. The final certificate is white - you could colour this yourself or the children can. Suitable for pupils learning English as a 2nd language too.

Lets cheer up Fridays (or any days), with this Dingbats Visual Word Puzzle for Kids or the whole family. 28 Picture clues for children to solve, complete with a blank answer template and an answer sheet. Works well on Zoom too!

Homographs are words that have the same spelling but different meanings and pronunciations. Here is a fun way to teach children this idea, There are 12 examples for children to discuss and compose sentences. At the back there are 12 cards showing the words worked on. Useful too, for English Language students.

Let’s cheer up Fridays (or any days), with this Visual Word Puzzle for Kids or the whole family. 28 Picture clues for children to solve, complete with a blank answer template and an answer sheet. Works well on Zoom too! Differentiate by giving the children the answers, mixed up, and ask them to match to the pictures.

8 activity sheets with a cross curriuclar Clothes theme. On each page there is a different sort of clothing, footwear or accessory. Each of the pictures on each page are numbered to 12. Children discuss the clothing and look at detail and function. They then use the writing area of the sheet to write key words associated with the items that describe them and / or write a sentence for each. Items include: hats, trousers and shorts, shoes, socks, jackets and coats. Links with literacy, writing and speaking and listening. Extend by asking children to describe an item of clothing and the class can say what it is from the description. Useful resource too, for those learning English.

A great little back to school quiz or anytime game encouraging team work, speaking and listening and vocabulary extension. Examples of pictures/sayings are ‘the hungry caterpillar’ and ‘the cat in the hat’. What to do Show the colour page with 28 pictures on. Children work in pairs or teams to try to work out the common sayings or idioms. Give them the grid template provided to write their answers on. Sheet 3 is the answer sheet, although children may come up with plausible alternative answers of their own. Another way of doing the quiz, is to give the children the answers, but in a mixed up form, and ask them to match them to the pictures. Children can go on to research any saying they do not know such as ‘pigs might fly’ or the’ elephant in the room’. This is a good resource too, for English language learners.

35 colour posters showing collective nouns for animals, food and other objects. There are matching small cards that children can cut and match to the correct collective noun words/ sentences and posters. Great visual aids and for displays. Also useful for teaching English as a second language.

Homonyms are words that have the same pronunciation and spelling but have different meanings. Here are 10 visual examples to discuss with your children and for them to compose, say and write sentences about. Suitable also for English Language students.

This activity can be shown on the whiteboard and children each given an answer sheet to mark off the missing words as they come to them. Alternatively, each of the 10 worksheets can be used on their own. Children complete the sentence with a missing word. The missing words are sometimes repeated such as ‘water’ and ‘chocolate’ but the containers or descriptions are different e.g. a bar of chocolate a box of chocolates This is a good speaking and listening activity and useful for those learning English.

*PCS Licenced - Boardmaker symbols. 4 pages of symbol cards related to health and well being. A useful visual aid. Each page has 12 colour symbols to talk about. A useful speaking and listening aid for pupils and those learning English. Enlarge and cut out the cards for pupils to discuss and/or create their own sentences. Cards include those expressing feelings, asking for help, communicating and ideas on how to keep fit and healthy.

Activities suitable for English Language learners, SEND and KS1 pupils. Instructions and ideas included. Verbs Resources A set of 64 cards showing picture symbols of verbs, regular and some irregular. Word grids showing each verb and past tense. Activity ideas Say or write two sentence for each verb E.g. The children were having a quarrel. The children quarrelled this morning. E.g. I wash my hair each week. I washed my hair on Friday. Cut out some of the picture symbols and paste into your workbook. Write 2 sentences next to each one. E.G. Opening window picture symbol I open my window in the summer. Dad opened my window this morning. Choose 5 cards and work in pairs to make up a verbal or written story. Share with the group or class. *PCS Licenced - Boardmaker symbols.

Share this PPT with your class / children when teaching about words that have the same spelling but different meanings. There are 6 slides showing pairs of words with pictures to match. Slides 7 to 12 can be used for speaking and listening where children compose and share sentences for each pair of words. Alternatively, print out the slides for worksheets and children can write out the sentences. Pictures can also be cut out for matching games.

A fun activity for back to school or a wet play! 20 slides in this Catch Phrase game that is animated. These are popular phrases or idioms. Great for speaking and listening or those studying English language. Pupils work out the answers in pairs or teams and mark / locate these on the answer sheet provided.