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We have been sharing teaching ideas, classroom activities and display resources online since 1998. Our sites are visited by millions of teachers, educators and parents every year and our teaching materials are in use in classrooms around the world every day. We hope that our ideas and resources to you. Feel free to visit our websites: Teaching Ideas - http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ Teaching Packs - http://www.teachingpacks.co.uk/ ... and contact us if you have any questions.

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We have been sharing teaching ideas, classroom activities and display resources online since 1998. Our sites are visited by millions of teachers, educators and parents every year and our teaching materials are in use in classrooms around the world every day. We hope that our ideas and resources to you. Feel free to visit our websites: Teaching Ideas - http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ Teaching Packs - http://www.teachingpacks.co.uk/ ... and contact us if you have any questions.
Star Number - Maths Challenges for Early Years
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Star Number - Maths Challenges for Early Years

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A collection of printable pages that help your children to understand different ways of writing numbers. Twenty pages are included and each page asks children to: * Draw the star number - How could they represent the number using a picture? * Write the star number - Can your children write the number in words? * Write the number before. * Write the number after. These resources could be used as activity resources or completed for use on classroom display boards. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
20 Early Morning Activities
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20 Early Morning Activities

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A collection of 20 pages that your children can use as early morning activities (i.e. at the start of the day when you are completing the register) or for early finishers. These include a range of English, Maths and other cross-curricular challenges. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Persuasive Writing Guide
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Persuasive Writing Guide

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Teach your children about the features of persuasive writing with our printable guide. Includes information about: * Different types of persuasive writing, * Organisation and layout, * Points and Elaboration, * Present Tense, * Conjunctions, * Emotive Language, * Fact and Opinion, * Challenging the Reader, * Rhetorical Questions, * Advertising. Share this PDF with your children on an interactive whiteboard or print it for use as part of shared reading activities… or add it to your classroom display boards! Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Science Vocabulary Crosswords
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Science Vocabulary Crosswords

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A collection of crosswords that your children can use to review their knowledge of Science words. Includes 11 different crosswords, covering the following topics: * Animals and Humans * Earth and Space * Electricity * Forces and Magnets * Light * Living Things * Materials * Plants * Rocks and Soil * Sound * Working Scientifically … with answers for teaching and self-checking! Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Holiday Gift Shop - Maths Challenges
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Holiday Gift Shop - Maths Challenges

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A set of differentiated maths questions that are based on the prices of objects in a holiday gift shop. Two different levels of difficulty are included and the answers are available too! This resource uses British Pounds. When your children have answered our suggested questions, why not ask them to make up their own problems? Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
40 PAGES of Circle Calculations (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division)
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40 PAGES of Circle Calculations (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division)

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This HUGE resource includes a bumper collection of ‘Circle Calculation’ challenges. These help your children to review their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills at a variety of difficulty levels. They’re perfect for your Maths lessons, as early morning activities or as challenges for early finishers. Answers are included for teachers and for self-checking. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Multiplication Match-Up
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Multiplication Match-Up

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This resource includes sets of cards that show multiplication calculations with matching answers (e.g. 3x4 and 2x6). Can your children match all of the pairs together? Four different versions are included, at different levels of difficulty. We have also included the answers for you. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Famous Tudors - Classroom Posters
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Famous Tudors - Classroom Posters

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This resource includes a collection of posters that share information about twenty-four different people from Tudor times. They could be used as part of independent / group research tasks or on a classroom display. Could your children carry out further research about one of the people and create a report based on them? Could they think of different ways of sorting / grouping the people? Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Decimals Activity Cards
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Decimals Activity Cards

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Printable decimal numbers that can be used for a wide range of activities. Answer the questions provided with each set… or use the cards for other activities based on the teaching ideas included. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
The Early Human History Book
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The Early Human History Book

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This enormous 56 page child-friendly eBook is the perfect resource for your children to use as part of their Early Human History topic. Share the PDF on your interactive whiteboard and use it for whole class teaching or print individual pages for independent research activities. This eBook includes information about: * Prehistoric Times, * The Stone Age (including the Old, Middle and New Stone Ages), * The Bronze Age * The Iron Age Also includes a huge glossary with relevant vocabulary. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Similes and Metaphors - Reference Mat
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Similes and Metaphors - Reference Mat

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A handy reference mat that your children can use when they are learning about similes and metaphors. This mat helps children to remember the meaning of each term and includes lots of examples that can be used in their writing. Use it as a whole class teaching tool and challenge students to use one of the examples in a sentence / paragraph… or let children use these as reference mats on their tables during independent writing. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Puzzling Pictures - Inference and Deduction Resource
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Puzzling Pictures - Inference and Deduction Resource

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This popular resource includes 20 high quality images for your children to explore. Each picture has a set of related questions to help your students review their inference and deduction skills. Use them as an independent / group classroom activity, during your guided reading sessions or as part of your English display boards. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Christmas Story Starters - Image Pack
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Christmas Story Starters - Image Pack

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A collection of fifteen writing prompts that your children can use to write their own Christmas stories! What will happen to Spud the Christmas reindeer puppy… or Snowy the sandy snowman? Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
The Vikings Book
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The Vikings Book

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A 50 page child-friendy eBook that your children can use to learn about the Vikings. This resource includes: * Who were the Vikings? * Viking Society * Viking Families * Viking Houses * Viking Food and Drink * Vikings Clothes * Viking Boats * Viking Warriors * Viking Settlements * Viking Exploration * Viking Religion A comprehensive glossary is also included at the end of the eBook. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Examples of Instruction Writing
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Examples of Instruction Writing

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This resource includes four different examples of instruction writing: * How to make a lizard card, * How to play ‘Shut the box’, * How to make chocolate cupcakes, * How to plant a sunflower seed. Help your children to learn about instruction writing by getting them to analyse these examples. Can they identify the features? How could they be improved? A fantastic resource for your English / Literacy lessons or for guided reading sessions. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Growth Mindset Guide
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Growth Mindset Guide

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A comprehensive guide to Growth Mindset that you can share with your children. This resource includes information about: * Mindsets - What is a mindset? * Fixed and Growth Mindsets, * Changing your Mindset, * Yet… Using the word ‘yet’ to change your mindset, * Helping others, * Identifying how hard your brain is working, * Our brains, * Growing and helping our brains, … and more! Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Handwriting Resource (Precursive Font)
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Handwriting Resource (Precursive Font)

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This resource includes 26 handwriting pages that feature each letter of the alphabet. Children are asked to write each letter in four different ways: * Trace over the letters on the first row by following the arrows, * Trace over the letters (without arrows) on the second row, * Write their own letters on the third row, * Write the letter as part of a word in the final row. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Report Writing Guide
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Report Writing Guide

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Support your children’s work on report writing with our handy guide. It’s a wonderful teaching resource and can also be used as part of your classroom display boards. The guide includes information about: * What are non-chronological reports? * Types of reports, * Organisation of reports, * Thinking about your audience, * Researching the topic, * Planning your report, * Writing your report, * Facts and opinions, * Present and past tense, * Formal writing, * Vocabulary, * Top tips for writing a report. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
The Human Body Book
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The Human Body Book

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A 48 page guide to the human body that you can use as a whole class teaching tool… or that your children can use for group / independent research! Includes information about the skeleton, muscles, the lungs, the heart, the digestive system, the kidneys, the skin, the eyes, the ears, the nose and mouth, the nervous system, the immune system and keeping healthy. Also includes a comprehensive glossary with related words and their definitions. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!
Rivers Topic Guide
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Rivers Topic Guide

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Teach your children about rivers using our comprehensive topic guide. It includes information about: * Why rivers are crucial to life on Earth, * River sources, * River channels, * Tributaries, confluences and flood plains, * Erosion and deposition, * Waterfalls and rapids, * Estuaries and deltas, * Rivers and settlements, * Pollution in rivers, * Leisure time. This PDF guide can be displayed and shared on a large display (e.g. an interactive whiteboard) or printed for use as an independent / group reference resource. Visit Teaching Packs for more fantastic resources!