A handout with four simple sentences (mainly CVC words) to read and then illustrate as appropriate.

Adult assistance sheet. Includes the whole activity plan and ideas to extend the role-play experience and learning.

CCVC words to be read in 1 min or 3 mins against a timer.

2 different word mats: 1. Religious: The Easter story 2. Non-religious: Easter signs and symbols

A non-fiction PowerPoint all about Pumpkins. Learn about the fruit, how it can be cooked and Jack-O-Lanterns.

Nine word cards that have the CVCC pattern. Use with individual or small group phonics work.

Weekly spellings using the phoneme /igh/. Designed to be printed double sided and stuck into a homework diary - useful for parents, so they can help with Phonics alternate graphemes. Thanks to Phonicsplay.com for the idea for the back with the Best bet for spelling.

Information on all the main body parts of a fish and what the fish uses them for. I have taken most of the content from vtaide.com and learning parade and made into an easy PowerPoint introduction. Children then will label a picture of the Rainbow fish, either laminated as a matching game, or individually as a writing exercise.

Based on information from the UK's National Maritime Museum's website with images. Who were pirates, what did they do, how did they live and what can we learn to make ourselves better people?

An acrostic snow poem and a rain shape poem. To be used for teaching poetry or as a display.\nI designed these and the supporting images as a homework. The Powerpoint document has 6 pages of each poem, so can easily be printed on a handout to be cut up for each child's homework book.\nI have used in conjunction with Hamilton&'s Y1 unit 3b - Poems on a theme - weather

Pictures (courtesy of bloss1985 ng digraph pictures and words matching). 3 column phoneme frame for magnetic letters/graphemes on bottle tops... Print 2 to a page landscape

I have created a display banner to use alongside the Oxford Reading Tree display cards produced by Bev Evans.

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

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.

Pictures and character names of characters in differing versions of the story.

Small pictures designed to be used to support recount writing of the story.

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

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

What is a mermaid? Information on Hans Christian Andersen and The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, as well as the Disney animation.

Graphemes and pictures related to items seen at Thornton Reservoir in Leicestershire. Grapheme prompts to assist children in the use of digraphs and trigraphs when writing. Also an editable Word version, easily adaptable for your own local country parks and reservoirs.