To be used alongside a practical sound hunt, listening to sounds in the environment. Using sound vocabulary, such as quiet and loud, other words can easily be substituted. A short song/rhyme has been included at the end, to recap that sounds are heard by the ears, one of the 5 senses.

Covers Funnybones (skeleton), Elmer (similarities and differences) and Owl Babies (needs).

A role-play assistance sheet designed to be kept in the topic resource box to help teachers and TAs/NNs set up the role-play area with the kids. Suggested resource list and possible scenarios

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

Pictures and character names of characters in differing versions of the story.

Termly assessment of phonemes and graphemes known. Using a different colour each assessment, I draw a semi-circle above for phoneme known and underneath for grapheme known. Listed in order of teaching from Phases 2 and 3 of Letters and Sounds phonic teaching materials.

Pictorial recipe, pictorial sequencing instructions and sequencing pictures. Planning included.

A PowerPoint book all about the original Justice League of America: Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, The Flash & Batman. PowerPoint version has a Contents and Index, and links from the Contents page to the information.

A word mat designed to support writing about The Bad Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle. Sectioned in to Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Also contains the VCOP superheroes (thanks to Butterbeer and ilovemarmite) and on the reverse has images and clock times for the different animals the bad tempered ladybird encountered in the story.

Writing frames differentiated on ability. Children to draw a picture to reflect the beginning, middle and end of the story, and either write a sentence, caption or beginning/middle/end or trace over words.

Video of the fire safety story for young kids along with some discussion points. Additional colouring page and story

A set of 4 differentiated worksheets for children to draw happy and sad faces on Humpty Dumpty. Designed to be used as a PSHE/PSED lesson on emotions to tie in with the nursery rhyme. Could also tie in with the KS1 SEAL Anti-bullying resources.

Display captions to go with a display of the owls in a tree.

Introduction to space topic and letter writing. Letter format for studying how a letter is written. Encouraging independent letter writing from an imaginery setting.

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.

Rhyming clues for an outside number treasure hunt

Pictures to be used for paired discussion. Children to study the picture carefully, and talk about it: What is the picture about? Who are the characters? What do you like about the picture? Imagine you are in the picture, who would you be? Where would you be? What are you doing? Designed to be used with R-time lesson Year 1 lesson 1.15. Also useful for SEAL lessons and other times where images of multicultural families and people are needed.

A word mat split into sections to mirror the VCOP display board. Using VCOP superhero images courtesy of butterbeer and ilovemarmite This wordmat goes alongside the story Elmer and the Lost Teddy, to help children write their own version of the story.

A sheet I wrote out for the Royal Wedding role-play area.

A worksheet with four simple sentences (mainly CVC words) to read and then illustrate as appropriate.