3 differentiated writing frames for a simple non-fiction book. 1. front cover, 2 pages (half text, half picture) and back cover for blurb; 2. front cover, contents page, 2 pages (half text, half picture), index and back cover; 3. front cover, contents page, 3 pages (half text, half picture/diagram), glossary, index and back cover. All in Word format, so editable as necessary.

An updated version of the vowel digraphs/trigraphs learnt in Phonics sessions. I have now made these into books to be used at home by parents and pupils. Each set of same sounding phonemes are grouped together in the same colour, to aid verbalisation. I hope these are of use!

An adult assistance sheet to help lead and support a Weather studio/presenter role-play

Images of Harold, Kiki and Derek, along with their names. A simple vowel digraph prompt with pictures to assist children in spelling key words.

Classroom display of Letters and Sounds Phase 5 graphemes (incl some alternates) and pictures.

A PowerPoint and sheet to help children identify /er/ /ir/ and /ur/ graphemes in real and alien (pseudo) words. Useful preparation for the Phonics screening test.

A powerpoint and worksheet designed to help children read real and pseudo 'alien' words from the /air/ /ear/ /are/ phoneme family. Designed to help children prepare for the Y1 Phonics screening test.

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 powerpoint and worksheet designed to help children read real and pseudo 'alien' words from the /ai/ /ay/ /a-e/ phoneme family. Designed to help children prepare for the Y1 Phonics screening test.

2 pages designed to be folded into a bottom opening card. Plant pot image on the front, where the riddle is written, and a line for 'I am a ...' and a box for a picture of the minibeast (that could also be labelled as an extension task!)

We designed our own characters, looking at recounts, character descriptions and then moved onto a simple story and made it into a comic strip. Our superheroes focused on the good qualities they could have, and what human values (love, peace, truth, non-violence and right conduct) they display.

A song to the tune of Twinkle twinkle little star to thank mums for all they do for us. Words by Laurie Patsalides.

Homework / classwork sheet designed to help children find out information about the countries of the Commonwealth. To find out the continent, capital city, population, languages spoken, interesting facts etc. Children can use internet, atlas or other non-fiction book to find out the information.

Rhyming clues for an outside number treasure hunt

A series of well-known poems and rhymes blown up to a large font to be used in Shared Reading sessions. Twinkle Twinkle chocolate bar, This is the key to the castle, Lost & Found, Snow Joke, The house that Jack built

Pictorial representation of words starting with the ‘ch’ digraph. To be used on an IWB with the searchlight/spotlight facility for children to think of words starting with the sound.

A fire-fighter themed board game with subtraction question cards to answer. The object of the game is to race to put out the fire and get back to the fire station.

One page SMART notebook display with a screen cover to hide and show rules one by one. To be used to inform children of how to keep safe before they go trick or treating on Hallowe'en. NB: I always explain that not all parents wish their child to go trick or treating, and to respect their parent&'s wishes.

Bread recipe taken from the Breville Compact breadmaker baker's oven. 750g loaf.

PM Library Story Red Level A Guided Reading focus sheet for children reading at Reading Recovery Level 5 Key phoneme, tricky words (including pictures courtesy of Taming Tricky Words) and Context Words Cloze activity to go with text from the story.