Fiona, the founder of Teachers Telling Tales, has taught in the UK and international schools, trained teachers and worked as environmental educator. She is currently studying graphic design.
Teachers Telling Tales is a means to share this experience through creating high quality and affordable resources. While most are targeted at the primary age range, the aim is to provide versatile and adaptable resources to suit a range of ages and abilities. Many are inspired by stories to engage learners.
Fiona, the founder of Teachers Telling Tales, has taught in the UK and international schools, trained teachers and worked as environmental educator. She is currently studying graphic design.
Teachers Telling Tales is a means to share this experience through creating high quality and affordable resources. While most are targeted at the primary age range, the aim is to provide versatile and adaptable resources to suit a range of ages and abilities. Many are inspired by stories to engage learners.
Creative activities based on the story book Flyaway Katie by Polly Dunbar.
Good for:
Exploring colours, shapes and patterns
Templates with patterns for mindful colouring. Outline-only templates for children to create their own patterns. Can be enlarged for painting or collage. Great for a colourful display.
Activities to accompany the storybook ‘Flyaway Katie’ by Polly Dunbar.
Good for:
Actively involving children during story time, developing listening skills, vocabulary, following instructions.
Students learning English as an additional language.
Topics: colours, clothes, body parts, feelings.
Contents and Ideas:
Story Elements cards with colours (8), body parts (4) and clothes (4) from the story.
Give out to children individually or in pairs and ask to hold up their card when they hear it mentioned in the story.
Follow-along Sheet.
Children colour the picture of Katie, then look at the checklist with an adult.
This pack includes
Design Task Cards
Footwear outlines templates
Teacher’s guides with instructions and activity descriptions and ideas.
Design Task Cards (2 versions: A4 size UK spelling and letter with US spelling)
These cards are designed to spark ideas, with suggestions while being open ended for interpretation and exploration. Themes: Characters, friends and Family, Superheroes, Animals, My Hero, Occupations, Stories, Celebrations. The cards can be used for individual or collaborative tasks.
The cards could be used for other items of clothing such as hats or T shirts, homes, vehicles or anything else you can think of!
Templates
Outlines of footwear. Includes a range of socks, tights, leggings, shoes, sandals, boots.
These resources are great for awareness days:
#oddsocksday November 16th (part of Anti-bullying Week)
#LotsOfSocksDay 21st March (World Down Syndrome Day)
Related resources are available from Teachers Telling Tales, including an Odd Socks pack, sock-themed repeat patterns and Sock-topus and Friends’ animals love socks counting activities. Available as a bundle at a dis counted price.
Also see the blog post https://teacherstellingtales.com/socks-rock/
Complete lesson with:
Lesson Plan with photos
Visual aids
Worksheet (blank cards design with instructions)
Activity resources, printable cards for games / exercises.
Three types of cards:
Pictures only (colour and black and white versions) 2 sheets
Pictures and words (colour and black and white versions) 2 sheets
Words only (black and white and ink saving versions) 2 sheets
Features twenty pairs of homophones (total forty words), good for spelling and vocabulary.
To further consolidate homophones, try the Teachers Telling Tales Which Witch Quiz and activity pack. Receive a discount if you buy both resource packs as a bundle.
PowerPoint / PDF with 16 pages. Guidance, answers and ideas in notes.
5 engaging games featuring cute monsters and balloons and a range of number facts and skills. Alternative versions of games and editable presentation, so the possibilities are endless!
Perfect for lesson starters, plenaries and fill in activities. Initially created as a remote teaching activity, suitable for distance learning.
Includes printable pages for follow-up consolidation.
Skills: 2 digit numbers, place value, one more / less, addition and subtraction, 2, 5 and 10 x tables, odd and even, doubles, number bonds.
Games: Who has the winning balloon? Pop the Balloons, Colour the Balloons, Multiplication Monsters, Make 10 Monsters.
UK spelling (colour) and US (color) versions.
You may also like the Teachers Telling Tales My Amazing Monster Literacy Lesson https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/my-amazing-monster-literacy-lesson-12564858 and Monster Balloon Party https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/monster-balloon-party-maths-games-12564895 for older / more able students. Buy two packs together as a bundle with a discount.
PowerPoint / PDF with 19 pages. Guidance, answers and ideas in notes.
5 engaging games featuring cute monsters and balloons and a range of number facts and skills. Alternative versions of games and editable so the possibilities are endless!
Perfect for lesson starters, plenaries and fill in activities. Initially created as a remote teaching activity, suitable for distance learning.
Includes printable pages for follow-up consolidation.
Skills: addition and subtraction, times tables, fractions of amounts, rounding to nearest 10, double and half, number bonds
Vocabulary: multiple, factor, square number, square root, prime, odd and even, dozen, score, gross, sum, product
Games: Who has the winning balloon? Pop the Balloons, Colour the Balloons, Vocabulary Monsters, Make 100 Monsters.
UK spelling (colour) and US (color) versions.
You may also like the Teachers Telling Tales My Amazing Monster Literacy Lesson https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/my-amazing-monster-literacy-lesson-12564858 and Little Monster Balloon Party for younger / less able students. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/little-monster-balloon-party-maths-games-12564875
Buy two packs together as a bundle with a discount.
An interactive story to learn about the sea turtle life cycle, natural and human threats. Children sit in a circle around a turtle nest (a hoop or mat) with 100 eggs.
As they listen to a story they take turns (going round the circle) to remove eggs as a predator or problem arises.
As the story continues, the remaining eggs are turned over to reveal hatchlings which in turn face more problems as they try to reach the sea. As juveniles in the sea there are yet more problems. How many will survive and return to the beach where they hatched to lay their own eggs? What will the beach be like when they have become an adult
Printables included in the pack:
Turtle eggs templates. Students can cut out the circles and draw their own hatchling on one side, (optional, if you prefer use the pre-made cards below).
Turtle egg and hatchling cards. Print and cut out. (Place face down for eggs and turn over for hatchlings.)
Story Scripts, 2 versions, ‘Take 5’ and ‘Against the Odds’.
Turtle problem picture cards.
Turtle problem word and picture cards.
Story Script Excerpt:
One moonlit night a green turtle heaved herself along the beach and dug a hole in the sand with her flippers.
She laid 100 eggs and took care to cover them again with sand to disguise the nest. Slowly, she made her way back to the sea where, exhausted, she slipped with relief back into the water as the sun began to rise.
Early the next morning, a dog roamed the beach and could smell where the turtle had been. She dug up part of the nest, ate five eggs and cracked five more which were eaten by ants.
Also included:
Ideas for activities using turtle problems cards. Maths (subtraction) story idea.
Related Resources:
For an active game on the threats to turtles, see the Teachers Telling Tales resource https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/turtles-in-danger-game-12237706
An interactive Powerpoint Presentation
Can be used on interactive whiteboards, computers or individual devices.
Good for
ICT skills: using a pen or mouse to click, drag and drop, using arrow keys to move an object. The activity challenges students to make the chameleon disappear by matching it exactly to the background, encouraging accuracy.
Observation Skills: looking carefully at detail, pattern, texture and colour.
Topics: Colour, Pattern, Camouflage.
Can be used as a follow up to reading The Mixed-up Chameleon by Eric Carle and The Content Chameleon resource by Teachers Telling Tales.
Contents:
Chameleon Camouflage PPT (make sure you keep a master copy in case students save the changes). All background photos are free to use and links are provided in the notes.
Free Chameleons PPT with interesting facts, free images with links, YouTube and children’s website links for further exploration.
This bundle is the cat’s pyjamas!
As well as a presentation to explore some of the figurative language in Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes, there are lots of templates for creative activities that apply reading comprehension skills in a fun and engaging way.
compose the headlines for breaking news on television to summarise the main idea
create the front page of a newspaper to retell the story
create a missing poster for a little pig or the wolf
create a wanted poster for the villainous Little Red Riding Hood
Student notes and educator’s guiders included.
A mini story and quiz presentation with pattern colouring and treasure hunt activities.
Good for
Follow up to reading The Mixed-up Chameleon by Eric Carle.
Topics : Animals, Colour, Pattern, Camouflage.
Observation Skills: looking carefully at pattern and colour.
Contents and Ideas: (a resource guide is also included)
The Content Chameleon presentation. A mini story and quiz about the no-longer-Mixed-up Chameleon returning to the zoo. He has lots of fun trying out animal patterns. The children guess the animal from the chameleon’s pattern.
(All background photos are free to use and links are provided in the notes.)
Pattern Colouring Sheets. An outline of the chameleon filled with an animal pattern. Children continue the pattern to hide the chameleon. Nine animal patterns and a blank outline are provided.
Blank chameleon outlines. A portrait and landscape version. These can be used as colouring sheets or traced onto plastic pockets to explore inserting different colours and patterns. The traced chameleons can be placed around the classroom or playground for a chameleon treasure hunt. A few photos of ideas are included in the resource guide.
Free Chameleons presentation with interesting facts, free images with links, YouTube and child-friendly website links for further exploration.
A cool collection of ice lolly and ice cream themed activities. Includes craft, colouring and design. Inspire creative ideas and develop vocabulary related to flavours, colours, toppings and discussion of preferences and opinions. Explore symmetry through completing pictures and creating designs.
Perfect for summer, holiday and food topics, parties or play dates.
Everything you need for engaging lessons that will help students remember how to spell homophones. Includes quizzes, games and mnemonic activities.
Differentiation through separate presentations and resource variations (word, picture, word and picture). Colour, black and white and ink saving versions.
Suitable for in class or remote teaching / home learning.
Introduce Pirates vocabulary and consolidate positional language through Spot-the-Difference activity and draw and colour activity (with text or pictorial instructions). Great for differing abilities, students with EAL. Consolidate vocabulary with anagrams worksheet. Deepen thinking skills with pirate themed sudoku, cut and paste the pictures with three levels of challenge. Fun mazes to keep early finishers engaged.
Packed with lots of editable games, the balloon party numeracy pack is perfect for consolidating number facts and skills. Dip into games as starters or time- fillers throughout the year.
The literacy pack can be used as a lesson or extended over time as a project. It includes differentiated phonics, vocabulary and creative writing activities. Using dice games to generate word part and detail for sentences, it is great for keeping students engaged.
If you teach a wide range of ages and abilities then this pack is for you!
Covering number facts and skills across the primary age range these fun games are great lesson starters or time-fillers. Editable presentations allow for endless variation.
Also suitable for remote teaching, includes presentations and printables.
A bundle of fishy fun!
Perfect for ocean and sea topics or exploring language, shape, pattern and colour.
Includes mazes, dot-to-dots, tracing and colouring pages, Bingo and card games. Activity sheets at different levels of challenge with matching, cutting and sticking and beginning reading and writing skills.
These games are great for consolidating the four operations, calculation skills such as doubling, times tables, power of 10. Encourages accuracy as each step leads to the next and can be a paired or individual activity. Print, display or complete the game digitally. Includes blank sheets featuring the attractive designs to adapt to students’ needs or for them to complete as an extension activity.
The bundle contains 10 completed game sheets and 4 blanks in colour and ink saving versions. Instructions and answers also included.
Everything you need for a fun, engaging topic on fairy tales / crime! A presentation with a learning unit consisting of twelve activities with a focus on critical thinking skills and creativity. High quality visual aids to stimulate speaking and listening and drama activities. Templates for writing, drawing and role play tasks.
Students will love creating their own special agent ID card and working as part of a team to create an investigation board with crime scene photos, bagged evidence and mug shots.
Draw the biggest villain in the magic mirror and write a criminal case file for the Big Bad Wolf including his personal details and crimes. Debate whether the Giant is a victim or a villain and many more ideas.
Follow up reading The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle with lots of engaging cross-curricular resources. Explore animal patterns with The Content Chameleon story, quiz and colouring activities. Develop ICT skills hiding the chameleon in the backgrounds and go on a chameleon hunt. Learn more about these fascinating creatures through a presentation with video and website links. More ideas in the resource guides provided.
Have fun learning the ‘ar’ and long ‘o’ sounds with these games. Includes, board games, Bingo and card games.
Perfect for ‘Talk like a Pirate Day’, phonics lessons, Pirates topics and vocabulary work with English language learners.
Games keep students engaged and help them to develop social skills.
