Teaching and Learning Resources for Early Learners and KS1
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Looking for something original? Here are some Resources for Early Learners and Key Stage 1 that you won't have used before. There are also some Key Stage 2 and a variety of SEND resources.
Alphabet, Phonics, Speaking and Listening, Reading & Writing Activities and a range of topic resources. Worksheets, flashcards, activities, PPTs, quiz games and posters are all included.
Most images licenced from graphicsfactory.com and symbols are licenced from Boardmaker.
Looking for something original? Here are some Resources for Early Learners and Key Stage 1 that you won't have used before. There are also some Key Stage 2 and a variety of SEND resources.
Alphabet, Phonics, Speaking and Listening, Reading & Writing Activities and a range of topic resources. Worksheets, flashcards, activities, PPTs, quiz games and posters are all included.
Most images licenced from graphicsfactory.com and symbols are licenced from Boardmaker.
A fun speaking and listening game, for back to school, or any time, to get children into the swing of learning and concentrating again.
A bumper pack of 120 flash cards showing catch phrases or sayings. Some children will be familiar with and others they may need to research or try to work out.
There are 2 colour flashcards to a page.
There is an answer grid that covers all the pictures and a blank grid for children to write in.
There are also a set of worksheets where the cards are split up into sets of A to J, with 12 pictures per page and space underneath for them to write the answers in.
A great speaking and listening activity where children can discuss with their partners or small groups and come up with likely answers. There may be more than one answer that is appropriate.
May be useful, too for those learning English.
3 worksheets in colour and 3 in black and white linked to Music and musical instruments.
There are 8 instruments on each page. Children name, label and write the words.
Cut and laminate picture cards to add to your displays or to make matching games.
Boardmaker Licenced
“Spelling Bee Phonics Activity Set,” is an interactive resource designed to enhance phonics learning in the classroom. Useful for Key Stage 1 teachers who are looking for engaging ways to assess, practice, and consolidate children’s understanding of phonics and CVC words.
Each set includes five ‘honeycomb’ cards, each centered around a different vowel - ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, or ‘u’. The activity encourages children to use their phonics skills to form and write up to 6 CVC words. Examples of words for the ‘a’ card could be ‘pet’, ‘pen’, ‘ten’, ‘met’, ‘peg’, and ‘meg’.
The cards can be cut out and used in a multitude of ways: as stand-alone worksheets, additions to a writing corner, or even as flashcards. Also included are handy templates, allowing teachers to create more customized cards, extending the use of the resource.
The templates can be used to set homework tasks, or children can create their own cards to test their friends or use for self-practice.
Spelling Bee Phonics Activity Set makes phonics learning enjoyable.
There are 4 pages of colour pictures where the middle sounds / vowels are missing.
The sheets can be laminated for re-use.
Links to Phonics, Spelling and Letters and Sounds work.
4 sheets with circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. Children can improve their cutting and fine motor skills by cutting out the shapes from the largest to the smallest.
Children can learn about shape and size with this activity.
A 2D shape and pattern resource for EYFS and KS1.
Included are 4 colour houses made up of 7 shapes.
Each house has different coloured shapes.
There is a black and white house for children to use as a template.
They can either colour this in to match one of the 4 houses or make up their own colour patterns.
There are 7 shapes for children to colour in, cut out and rearrange into a house included.
Use in combination with colour 2D shapes for a practical activity or cut out shapes from felt or sticky backed paper.
3 Farm worksheets suitable for SEND and KS1.
Each worksheet comes in colour and black and white.
Children can label the things that can be found on the farm using the words underneath.
There are 12 pictures / symbols on each page. These can be duplicated and cut out to make matching pairs.
Children can use the key vocabulary to write about the Farm or to make a list. The blank space on the worksheets could also be used for drawings, stories or poems.
Pictures and symbols could also be enlarged and used for visual aids or displays.
Boardmaker licence
This resource is linked to Phonics and words ending with FF.
There are 12 words included here with matching pictures.
Worksheets
1 - Children trace the words ending with FF and colour the pictures
2 - Children name the colour pictures , cut and match the pictures to the words on sheet 3
3 - Children can either write the words underneath the words given ending with FF, or draw or paste underneath the words.
Suitable for KS1 and SEND pupils.
Boarmaker licenced.
A set of five lessons on hand care crafted for SEND children (and suitable for EYFS and KS1), emphasizing sensory exploration, using visual symbolism, and interactive learning.
Here, children learn about hand hygiene, but also about kindness, empathy, and the value of self-care.
The resource contains a unit of work with 5 activities and includes activities, objectives, materials required, steps involved and the teacher support required.
Through tactile experiences, colour contrasts in symbols, and role-play scenarios, children are offered a multi-sensory approach, catering to varied learning needs.
The lessons provide children with the skills and knowledge to undertake their own hand care, fostering a sense of autonomy.
The 15 colour and black & white symbols serve as visual cues, reinforcing memory and association.
The role-playing activities emphasize kind actions with hands, guiding children towards empathetic interactions and promoting positive social behaviour.
The lessons are modular and can be tailored to suit individual children’s requirements, pacing, and comfort levels.
Boardmaker Licenced.
A ‘Hot’ and ‘Cold’ Activity Pack for SEND and KS1 children.
A fun and engaging way to teach children about Geography and Science: Hot and Cold. Links to Weather and Seasons.
This Activity Pack has 12 colourful hot and cold flashcards, colouring sheets, tracing words activities and word searches for both hot and cold, with picture clues for reading and phonics practice.
There is a template sheet for both hot and cold that can be used for drawing, writing, or pasting/sorting into.
Answer sheets are included for the word searches, so children can check their own work.
Use as a unit of work, a lesson or just dip in for your Science topic / literacy work.
A Letters and Sounds Phonics resource using S, A, T, P, I and N and making CVC words.
There are 8 worksheets in colour and these are duplicated in black and white.
Each worksheet is an activity in itself. Children trace the letters of the CVC words, cut them out and order them to make the word related to the picture.
All the letters can be cut out, jumbled and children can make as many words as they can using the pictures to guide them.
Laminate the colour cards and letters to make games of matching and making CVC words.
The words included are sat, tap, pin, pan, pat, tin, tip, tan and sip.
A lovely little matching card game for young children where they name and match drawings and photos of a Spring theme such as a chick, blossom and insects.
Cut and laminate the cards for durability and reuse.
Children could colour in the drawings to make them more personal.
Useful too, for displays, drawer labels and speaking and listening work.
There are 10 pages with 2 sets of cards on each one.
A set of colouring, counting and naming resources for EYFS with a Transport theme.
Count how many of each vehicle and write the numbers
Label the vehicles or write a caption
Name and colour the vehicles
4 - 8. 2 large pictures to a page for colouring or flashcards
A colourful fun game for EYFS and KS1 and suitable too, for SEND.
There are 8 shops to cut out - these come in a small size - 8 to a page and a large size - 2 to a page.
There are 8 pictures of objects that match each shop to cut out e.g.
8 grocery items to match the grocery shop and 8 different kinds of books to match the book shop.
Children work out which item can be purchased at which shop and make collections of pictures.
There may be some duplications e.g. toothpaste can match with the grocery shop and the chemist.
The game can be played in pairs or small groups or with 1 to 1 adult support.
Lots of opportunities for discussion and speaking and listening.
There are 3 worksheets for different abilities.
Children write 4 items they can purchase at each shop.
Children cut out and make pairs of items e.g. shoe shop and a pair of trainers.
Children write the name of the shop or write a sentence about the shop and what you can buy there.
Extend by adding prices to the items to have a shop corner or money game.
Early work on adjectives for young children and / or those learning English.
A speaking and listening resource for young children to see if they can distinguish between the opposites: empty and full.
There are 10 posters to discuss. Print out or / and show on the white board.
Encourage children to look around their classroom / environment and find things that are empty and full.
Some posters will provoke thinking skills e.g. the swimming pool is full of people but there are no swimmers in it.
Some posters could also be interpreted as half full such as some of the coffee cups.
4 pages of colour flashcards, each showing 6 fish.
Children cut out the cards and describe what feelings or emotions the fish are showing.
Start simply with happy and sad and then move on to other emotions such as surprised, angry, shocked etc.
Duplicate and laminate the cards for matching games.
Children could attempt to copy the emotions they see in the fish - they could use a mirror to help them.
Here are 8 colouring sheets showing a colour version and a black and white version of Birthday cakes.
Page 1 is a collection of smaller cakes.
Children can copy the colours or use their own ideas.
These are also good for making into birthday cards.
The final worksheet is a colouring in sheet with a birthday party theme.
5 different worksheets where children name the objects related to Spring and then trace over the words.
Links to Seasons, Easter, handwriting and fine motor control.
Children will enjoy joining in with this popular nursery rhyme with the support of these cards.
There are black and white cards which children can colour in and trace over the words or write onto.
There are colour cards that children can read the words or write onto.
Cut out the cards for sequencing, sorting and matching games.
4 fine motor control activities linked to your Transport topic.
Vehicles for children to trace around are:
Bus, Van, Boat and Tractor.
You could also laminate and add these to your writing corner and children can reuse with dry markers.