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)

Phase 5 powerpoint - designed to teach:\n1. GPC recognition\n2. Blending for reading words containing the phoneme (real and pseudo words)\n3. Where in the word does the phoneme come?\n4. Segment for spelling - model for class, then individual quickwrites\n5. Sentence reading

A word mat to write instructions on how to make a straw rocket launcher. Set out into V, C, O & P sections. Also contains butterbeer & Ilovemarmite's VCOP superheroes.

Classroom display of Letters and Sounds Phase 5 graphemes (incl some alternates) and pictures.

A comprehensive PowerPoint of the life of Queen Elizabeth II from birth to her 90th birthday celebrations.

A powerpoint and worksheet designed to help children read real and pseudo 'alien' words from the /ai/ /ay/ /a-e/ phoneme family. Designed to help children prepare for the Y1 Phonics screening test.

An assessment tool to be used on all new arrivals to the school, to all initial concerns/low achievers and also across all SEN pupils. The SLCN screen helps to focus on the needs of the individual (if any). To be used in conjunction with the Leicester City Meeting Individual Needs SLCN manual.

3 differentiated instructional writing templates. All templates in Word and pdf version.

To be used alongside guided reading as an independent task/homework with guided reading book. Reading comprehension sheets for Project X orange bookband/stage 6/RR level 16 and turquoise bookband/stage 7/RR levels 17-18. When animals invade, Body invaders, Dragon hunter & The silver box.

PowerPoint with both pronunciations of this grapheme. Differentiated to be used with a mixed group of Phase 3/4 children. 1. Blending for reading words incl pseudo words. 2. Oral segmentation. 3. Segmentation for spelling. 4. Reading sentences.

A sheet to be used in group guided reading or Literacy to find and list all words beginning with different consonant blends scr, spl, spr, str, pl, cr, cl, pr, tw, thr Songbirds book The Scrap Rocket - Stage 3, reading recovery level 6

We wrote our own class book based on Pants and More Pants by Giles Andreae (Purple Ronnie). Each child was challenged to create their own pants rhymes, design pants to illustrate the rhyme, and type the text on the computer. We then made into a book, and made a Pants display, including why we were learning about pants, as many parents thought it was weird! I've also made some info on the author and illustrator.

Weekly spellings to support Phonics lessons based on the phoneme /ow/ and alternative grapheme spellings. One side has an intro and spellings list, second page to be printed on the back with the Best Best for spelling rules. Designed to be used alongside planning from PhonicsPlay. I stick in the homework diary weekly, so parents have all information to hand.

A list of key vocabulary for the Numbers and Patterns publication.

RWInc style flashcards for grapheme /ck/ including the caption/ditty - lucky duck Double-sided - first side has the grapheme in large text, the opposite side has a picture, caption and includes some other ck words.

Labels and captions for a senses themed display

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 classroom based shared poem based on Peepo! by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.I was planning to use as a starting activity for writing our own poem; focusing on the rhyming words. We will be photographing areas of the classroom; and writing verses about them.

Practise writing the alphabet by shape. Focus on the size of letters - ascenders and descenders.

PowerPoint of What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson (apologies about some of the pictures) along with the shared reading prompts from the Scottish Book Trust.\nI created this as the ladybird was just too hard for a whole class of kids to spot from the picture book!