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Infant teacher - shortlisted for TES Resource Contributor of the Year 2014 & 2015. All my resources have been made for my class, so have been tried and tested before uploading them to share with others. I hope you find my resources useful.

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Infant teacher - shortlisted for TES Resource Contributor of the Year 2014 & 2015. All my resources have been made for my class, so have been tried and tested before uploading them to share with others. I hope you find my resources useful.
Whatever Next! narrative retell resources
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Whatever Next! narrative retell resources

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All resources based on Whatever Next! by Jill Murphy 1. 6 pictures in sequential order. 4 differentiated versions for writing a word/caption/sentence. To extend by including a causal connective. 2. To write a list of adjectives to describe a night sky/space setting. 3. Plenary success criteria checklist. 4&5. Differentiated writing frames. 6. VCOP wordmat split up into vocab. connectives, openers and punctuation. Includes picture cues and VCOP superheroes images courtesy of ButterBeer and ilovemarmite.
Giant's castle role-play
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Giant's castle role-play

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An adult assistance sheet for structured role-play. Ideas of resources, scenarios and vocabulary to be used with fairytale castle role-play. Jack and the Beanstalk Sleeping Beauty Cinderella Beauty and the Beast Snow White St George Kings and Queens - Queen's jubilee
Peter Pan
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Peter Pan

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PowerPoint written as a World Book Day assembly. Why did J M Barrie write Peter Pan and why is there a connection with Great Ormond Street Hospital? Provides an opportunity to think about life without adults or growing up. What can we learn from the story?
Oi! Get off our train wordmat
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Oi! Get off our train wordmat

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Double sided wordmat to go with John Burningham's Oi! Get off our train. First side has images of the main characters and some objects in the story, along with words. Second side has some VCOP ideas to go with story writing.
Halloween Pumpkin Soup
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Halloween Pumpkin Soup

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Topic word cards created to be used in group discussion or a story sack activity, so children can read the words and learn how to write/spell them. Designed to go alongside a topic on Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper. Features pumpkin and squash images and well as the animal characters and cooking utensils used. Good for topics on autumn or Halloween
Riddles
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Riddles

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A whole week's worth of resources for KS1 riddles. A powerpoint introducing what riddles are and features, as well as how to plan writing a riddle.
Oxford Reading Tree Extended Stories
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Oxford Reading Tree Extended Stories

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I have written three extended stories to some Oxford Reading Tree Stage 1 stories. I could not find the original extended stories to these, although they may exist. The stories are for: Who is it?, Six in a bed, and Fun at the beach. I have also attached some other original extended stories, written by Roderick Hunt, that I have typed out, ready for a Shared Reading session.
What the Ladybird Heard
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What the Ladybird Heard

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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!
Discussion pictures
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Discussion pictures

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Pictures to be used for paired discussion. Children to study the picture carefully, and talk about it: What is the picture about? Who are the characters? What do you like about the picture? Imagine you are in the picture, who would you be? Where would you be? What are you doing? Designed to be used with R-time lesson Year 1 lesson 1.15. Also useful for SEAL lessons and other times where images of multicultural families and people are needed.
Phonics Letters and Sounds Phase 2 & 3 assessment
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Phonics Letters and Sounds Phase 2 & 3 assessment

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Termly assessment of phonemes and graphemes known. Using a different colour each assessment, I draw a semi-circle above for phoneme known and underneath for grapheme known. Listed in order of teaching from Phases 2 and 3 of Letters and Sounds phonic teaching materials.
Letter from space
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Letter from space

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Introduction to space topic and letter writing. Letter format for studying how a letter is written. Encouraging independent letter writing from an imaginery setting.
Recipe instructions template KS1
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Recipe instructions template KS1

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A KS1 instruction template for writing a recipe. Includes sections for equipment, ingredients, method. The second page (photographs and then an evaluation) are for after following the instructions!
zh, wh, ph
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zh, wh, ph

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Words with the Phase 5 phonemes zh, wh and ph in, as well as a paragraph containing all three phonemes for reading.
Food sentences
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Food sentences

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Introduction to writing sentences. Pictures at top as prompts - children to locate the missing word/picture and insert into sentence correctly.