To be used as a guided reading comprehension activity alongside Collins Big Cat book The Sun and the Moon. Focus phonemes, tricky word and speed words. Cloze activity questions. Child to draw a picture of the sun or moon and write facts in sentences/captions.

A wordmat designed to mirror the VCOP display board in KS1. Includes VCOP superhero images courtesy of butterbeer and ilovemarmite. Double-sided wordmat - 1 side with VCOP sections, flipside with half-completed pirate similes, and well-known pirate sayings. Useful for writing about pirates or creation of a pirate adventure story.

A set of reading comprehension sheets to go alongside the Lime level books. New vocabulary - write the definition (promoting dictionary skills), answering what, where, why, how questions, writing facts in a list, reviewing the book

A PowerPoint on early castles, looking into motte and baileys and then onto stone castles

A PowerPoint all about pigs. Info on where they live, pets, piglets, food and eating, their bodies and senses etc. Designed as extra supporting material when studying the Farm, Animals or The Three Little Pigs.

Based on my shared writing activity, I have made a zigzag style book. Created in Publisher on an A3 format, the page can be folded (and glued) in half horizontally and then folded to make the zigzags. Children can complete the missing words and draw a picture of their animal. They can then stick a post-it note over the picture or draw a picture of a box and sellotape it over the top to make the flap. Would be interesting to have flaps opening from different directions or different shapes!

A pictorial recipe for making egg-free gingerbread men. Focus on the structure of the text as non-fiction, with sections for the ingredients, equipment and method. Including pictorial instruction sorting cards. Great to use alongside the Gingerbread Man traditional tale.

A powerpoint lesson plan on how people can be special, focusing on: 1. who is special to me 2. what makes someone special 3. special beliefs 4. disability 5. why is Jesus special 6. thanking special people This unit is part of the Leicester SACRE F2 syllabus. Most of this unit is based around having visitors in to hot-seat why they are special in their own way

A set of classroom labels with an under the sea theme. Suitable for pegs, trays, books, folders and general classroom resources. Images courtesy of colourbox.com and shapes courtesy of Surfing to Success by Mercedes Hutchens.

A PowerPoint book all about The Avengers (original line-up). Captain America, Thor, Incredible Hulk, Ant-Man and Wasp, and Iron Man. PowerPoint version has a Contents and Index, and links from the Contents page to the information.

A non-fiction book on wolves. Designed to support child initiated learning to go alongside topics on forests, animals and traditional tales (red riding hood, three little pigs)

Quotation on family used to start a topic on families and family trees. 'We are all one family under the same sky.' Respecting similarities and differences.

A variety of activities taken from different (mainly American) websites on beans. 1. Maths ideas (sorting, matching, counting, capacity and pouring, estimation, time and change, measuring, direction) 2. Growing beans and bean sprouts 3. Collages, songs and music 4. Drama Great ideas to go alongside Jack and the Beanstalk

A PowerPoint to be used in conjunction with Fairy-tales introduction and Fairy-tale characters. Describes what settings are, and ideas of different settings. Links to the story mountain concept. Comparison of two differing settings in Jack and the Beanstalk

Based on information from the National Maritime Museum's website with images. Who were pirates, what did they do, how did they live and what can we learn to make ourselves better people?

Topic word cards created to be used in group discussion or a story sack activity, so children can read the words and learn how to write/spell them. Designed to go alongside a topic on Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper. Features pumpkin and squash images and well as the animal characters and cooking utensils used. Good for topics on autumn or Halloween

A matching pairs game using the skin patterns of a tiger, leopard, cow, giraffe, elephant, zebra, snake and peacock. To be printed double sided and laminated. This game links with my other zoo-themed resources.

A KS1 instruction template for writing a recipe. Includes sections for equipment, ingredients, method. The second page (photographs and then an evaluation) are for after following the instructions!

PowerPoint looking at the rhyming names and descriptions of characters. Hairy Maclary, Bottomley Potts, Hercules Morse, Muffin McLay, Bitzer Maloney, Schnitzel von Krumm. Children to attempt to create their own rhyming names and descriptions of differing dog breeds.

Step-by-step instructions to create a winter landscape. Images and text thanks to http://terristeachingtreasures.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/winter-wonderland-art.html