My Reception children spent half a term learning about caterpillars and butterflies. We learned Makaton actions to the Very Hungry Caterpillar. We watched a makaton video on YouTube. My class wanted to use some of the actions for the minibeasts, and then chose their own actions for other parts of the story. We learned Makaton actions for minibeasts - Mr Tumble CBBC video on YouTube. We painted the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar. We used this script which includes the songs that we used. We found all of the songs on YouTube and learned them during snack time. The class assembly lasted 10-15 minutes.

My Reception class enjoyed the story 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. We came up with our own story, and changed the words to 'We're Going on a Bug Hunt'. For our class assembly, we learnt Pie Corbett actions to retell the story. We also sang the Ugly Bug Ball song. It took us about 20-25 minutes. The parents and children loved it!

Bossy Verbs - Instruction Writing - How to Make Fruit Kebabs Reception Language, Literacy and Communication Differentiated - fill in gaps, cut and stick pictures in order, write sentences independently

Reception Phonics Early Years Literacy Sort CVC words into a table, -at, -og and -et

Children will draw a picture of themselves when they start Reception. The picture is added to their learning journey. It is lovely to compare their drawings from starting Reception, to the end of Reception.

Read through the CVC words Reception Foundation Phase KS1 Reading Language Literacy

I use these worksheets during my guided reading sessions with Year 1. We make predictions about the front cover, then half way through, and then just before the end. We then reflect on what we predicted. The skimming task is differentiated. The focus is on phase 2 and 3 tricky words. My children highlighted the words in different highlighter pen as it was clearer for them to count the words at the end. Guided Reading Literacy KS1 Year 1

Sort Real and Nonsense CVC Words Reception Literacy Phonics

Our genre was instruction writing. Each task is differentiated. Introduction - use a big piece of sugar paper and ask the children to tell me what to write. We talked about the features that we needed to include (title, numbered points, pictures to illustrate what happened). 3 tasks - Instructions to make bread, instructions to plant potatoes, instructions to plant onions MAT - copy from a model/word mat/independent writing Top group - use a word mat to find the correct bossy verb. Fill in the gap. Draw pictures to illustrate each step. Middle group - cut out each step and stuck them in order. Draw pictures to illustrate each step. Bottom group - I took photos of each activity and they cut them out and glued them in order. A member of staff wrote what they said about each picture.

Spider Web Phonics Group activity / game. Each child needs a board and a spider. Start with the spider in the middle of the board. An adult will need to shout out a letter. The children need to move their spider to the sound that they hear. I’ve attached 2 copies - a PDF & and editable Word document to change the sounds

Pre-Writing Shapes Early years Before children form letters, they should be able to form these shapes correctly. Included: Assessment sheet Practise sheets (can be laminated for an independent activity in the literacy area) Word document (editable) and PDF copy included

Label features of information text African animals Differentiated worksheets

Year 1 Sounds - Sort into a Table Phase 5 Literacy Phonics

Reception Phase 3 Sounds - Sort into a Table Literacy phonics spelling sounds

Differentiated sheets Early Years/Reception/Year 1 A skeleton table to help children to plan all elements of their story. Word mat included to help children generate ideas. An editable Word document is included, as well as a PDF copy.

Recognising capital letters - highlight the letters that they recognise. Easy indicator of what letters to work on. Reading zero to twenty. Tick when children are able to read these key words. I do these assessments at the end of each full term. I then make groups of children to focus on similar sounds/numbers. There is also a differentiated follow up maths worksheet for children to practise reading the numbers zero to twenty.

We wrote sounds on cups/milk lids. We laminated these mats and children had to match the inital sound to the picture.

Early Years - Reception Writing Template Genre - Instruction Writing How to play a triangle. Our topic was music/sound - ‘What’s that sound?’ Introduction We had a letter from Y2 asking us to teach them how to play a triangle. We played the triangle. We wrote instructions as a class on an A2 piece of sugar paper. 3 Differentiated worksheets Top group - write sentences independently - word mat to help with tricky spellings. Draw pictures of each step independently. Middle group - fill in the missing bossy verb (word mat included but you can add your own). Lower group - cut and stick the pictures and writing in order. They were able to order the numbers.

Reception Worksheets - Cornerstones Topic - ‘What’s that sound?’ Instruction Writing - how to play a triangle PDF 3 differentiated worksheets/activities Top group - use the writing template to scaffold writing. Children write independently using the word mat to start with bossy verbs. Draw pictures to illustrate writing. Middle group - Draw pictures to illustrate writing. Children just need to choose the correct bossy verb to include at the start of their sentences. Word mat included. Lower group - cut and stick activity. Children could draw their own pictures to illustrate the writing for further differentiation.

Sort ay and ou digraphs into a table Year 1 literacy