A word mat split into sections to mirror the VCOP display board. Using VCOP superhero images courtesy of butterbeer and ilovemarmite This wordmat goes alongside the story Elmer and the Lost Teddy, to help children write their own version of the story.

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.

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.

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.

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

A PowerPoint book all about The Avengers (original line-up). Captain America, Thor, Incredible Hulk, Ant-Man and Wasp, and Iron Man.\nPowerPoint version has a Contents and Index, and links from the Contents page to the information.

A 2 page flipchart showing the ground, grass and sky behind the one-armed robot letters, then a page of handwriting paper to model how to write them. A separate sheet of handwriting paper for kids to practice on.

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

A wordmat with words grouped into VCOP sections designed to help children retell/write their version of the story.

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

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.

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.

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

Labels and captions for a senses themed display

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

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.

PM Library Story Red Level A Guided Reading focus sheet for children reading at Reading Recovery Level 5 Key phoneme, tricky words (including pictures courtesy of Taming Tricky Words) and Context Words Cloze activity to go with text from the story.

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!

RWInc style flashcards for grapheme /e-e/ including a caption/ditty: Freeze these peas! Double-sided - first side has the grapheme in large text, the opposite side has a picture and caption.

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