A homework sheet introducing and using adjectives. Children to write a short list about their favourite story using adjectives. Teacher to guess the story (if possible!)

RWInc style flashcards for graphemes /wh/ and /ph/ including a caption/ditty. wh: Where is Dr Who? ph: Phil and Lil like Phonics! Double-sided - first side has the grapheme in large text, the opposite side has a picture and caption.

A simple history of the circus beginning with Philip Astley's horse training, moving on to circus acts without animals.

A word mat designed to support writing about the moon landing. Sectioned in to Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Also contains the two common phrases broadcast and VCOP superheroes (thanks to Butterbeer and ilovemarmite)

Who were knights, weaponry, armour, coats of arms battles, famous knights and St George

A PowerPoint on early castles, looking into motte and baileys and then onto stone castles

A word mat designed to support children's thank you writing after Christmas. Set out to mirror the VCOP board, including question words to prompt.

Print each different grapheme on a different colour. Children take 1 of each grapheme and make a silly sentence using all 4 cards. They can then practice writing the sentence as an extension!

Countdown game using CVC words for blending. Now updated with the pdf version, as font not be recognised on some computers.

Game board (to be enlarged to A3) and animal picture and word cards. To be cut and laminated. Children can match the picture/word card to the board in alphabet order.\nNote that 'X&' is fox (the x is underlined to help)\nHope this resource is useful; please rate it if so xx

Pictures of foods beginning with ch or not. Designed as a sorting activity for oral segmentation when learning the phoneme /ch/.

An updated version of the vowel digraphs/trigraphs learnt in Phonics sessions. I have now made these into books to be used at home by parents and students. Each set of same sounding phonemes are grouped together in the same color, to aid verbalization. I

A non-fiction book on rabbits. Designed either to be viewed on the interactive whiteboard or printed and made into a book for shared reading sessions. Could be used as a topic introduction or independent reading.

A PowerPoint on what fairy-tales are and the structure that they follow.\nUses the Story Mountain concept: opening, build-up, dilemma, resolution and ending.

Poem by Christina Rossetti. I used as part of a Minibeasts display, drawing out the human values of different minibeasts, and how we should look after them

We designed our own characters, looking at recounts, character descriptions and then moved onto a simple story and made it into a comic strip. Our superheroes focused on the good qualities they could have, and what human values (love, peace, truth, non-violence and right conduct) they display.

A short PowerPoint to introduce comic strips to children. Looking at the different features such as caption boxes, speech bubbles, thought bubbles, action words. Links well with the topic of Superheroes.

A PowerPoint differentiated for Phase 3 and 4 Phonics teaching, focusing on the /ee/ phoneme. 1. Reading words containing the /ee/ phoneme (incl pseudo words - indicated with a picture of an alien)\n2. Where in the word does the phoneme come?\n3. Oral segmentation\n4. Segmentation for spelling\n5. Reading sentences\nHope this is of use - if so, please leave feedback xx

A PowerPoint written for Infant age children to begin to use PowerPoint software.\nLearning how to: \n1. Insert slides\n2. Change the layout of slides\n3. Insert images\n4. Save the document\nCan be used for story-writing or non-fiction

A wordmat split up into Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation designed to be used to help write a report on the Great Fire of London.