Foundation Stage Teacher Starter Pack

Hello!

I am at the peak of my resource making and thought I would share some of the resources I have made on supply. I hope you are able to enjoy over 100 pages of resources that helped me in the day-to-day running of my Foundation Stage class for 7 years. They can also be used for some Year 1 role-play areas, registers, pupils who need boosters in phase 2-4 and also contain some resources to boost children who have potential to enter Phase 5 before the Foundation Stage year is up!

These resources are tailored to teachers within schools that endorse a mixture of both cursive and pre-cursive print/writing. I would recommend cutting them out first, before then laminating them in a pouch. Without a small seal, they do not last half as long and come out of their laminated pouch easily with busy hands!

In order of appearance we have:
P.1-3: A handwriting practise to be laminated and practised only when the children are comfortable with good pen grip. There are cursive scripts and print scripts of a common sentence that uses all letters of the alphabet.

P.4-5: Outdoor Register. Write your name before you go out. Recommend they use name cards to aid reluctant writers.

P.6: Simple cutting skills in the writing area.

P. 7-9: Writing opportunities.

P. 10: Phonic Board Template. My personal favourite. Used in my phonics group, you can combine this with a whiteboard (plain side) and two pegs. Simply cut out the parts where the child can write. Laminate. Now make a small cut and cut inside the ‘write areas’ so that you can poke your finger through the ‘write areas’. Now attach this to the whiteboard. The children will quickly learn to write their name using appropriate size, the phoneme of the day, the tricky word, to blend using a phoneme frame and to write a short sentence. Fantastic resource.

Page 11-19: Ph2-4 Tricky words (in orange)

P. 20-35: Ph2-5 decodable words (in green)

P.36-44: All Ph2-4 phonemes. NB these are in cursive script.

P.45-46: Bookmarks. Used for going-home schemed books.

P.47-49: Phase 2-4 assessment sheets.

P. 50-60: Classroom Phonic prompts. Aids pretend word sounding out. Ph3-5

P.61-74 (&75): Reading Area prompts for children/adults about relevant books.

P.76: A guided reading proforma that helped me to do group reads and write basic notes on the children. That’s all it has to be. Don’t make too much work for yourselves!

P.77: Which school doesn’t have scooters?! A resource for the outdoor area.

P.79-88: Phoneme frame & graphemes (Ph2-4) Colour coded for recognition. Recommended for continuous provision.

P.89-92: Reading Aid-help children identify their stage and appropriate books to fetch independently.

P.93-96: Behaviour Management aids inc. whole-class marbles.

P.97-104: Fruit Station Aids.

P.105-107: LEGO ideas.

P.108-117: Start the day morning with these handy resources.

P.118-119: A Menu for roleplay.