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!

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

A wordmat designed to mirror the VCOP board. VCOP superhero images thanks to ilovemarmite and butterbeer.

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)

Designed to be used with magnetic letters, drywipe pens or letters on bottle tops to segment the /oi/ words: coin, soil, coil, oil, point, boil, oink, noise

Rhyming number bond to 10 posters featuring elements of Easter and the easter story.

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.

Independent/adult-assisted research activity (I used as a week's homework) to use a non-fiction text or internet to research a dinosaur. Using a non-fiction text to locate and use contents page, page numbers and information.

Display captions to go with a display of the owls in a tree.

Variety of writing resources to aid Literacy teaching. Letter of apology to the 3 bears, a worksheet with 3 boxes for illustrating the beginning, middle & end of the story, differentiated with lines for the more able to write sentences, and sentences

F2 Reception medium term plan on Special Books. Linked to Leicester City SACRE RE unit, but encompasses RE, PSED, CL, UW

F2 Reception medium term plan on Friends, PPt presentation. Linked to Leicester City SACRE RE unit, but encompasses RE, PSED, CL, UW

A homework idea, life cycle of the Phoenix, and a Phoenix myth dictionary. All to support the Hamilton Y1 Literacy plan on Narrative. Please also see my Ppt file on the legend of the Phoenix story to help introduce the concept.

Introduction to space topic and letter writing. Letter format for studying how a letter is written. Encouraging independent letter writing from an imaginery setting.

A wordmat split into the 4 sections of VCOP. The vocabulary section is split into Settings, Pebble adjectives and Villain adjectives.

A simple diary template for children to record what they did over the Easter weekend/holidays. Space for photos/drawings and writing.

A lesson starter/intro to the story of The Three Little Pigs &/or Homes topic. Loosely based on Through the Keyhole. Use the spotlight tool in ActivPrimary on the image pages to give the children thinking time.

3 differentiated writing frames for a simple non-fiction book.\n1. front cover, 2 pages (half text, half picture) and back cover for blurb;\n2. front cover, contents page, 2 pages (half text, half picture), index and back cover;\n3. front cover, contents page, 3 pages (half text, half picture/diagram), glossary, index and back cover.\nAll in Word format, so editable as necessary.

A shared writing or independent work idea, linking up both Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell and learning the sequence of the days of the week.

F2 Reception medium term plan on Beginnings, PPt presentation. Linked to Leicester City SACRE RE unit, but encompasses RE, PSED, CL, UW.\nContent covers New Year, religious birth customs, Chinese New Year and the Judeo-Christian creation story.