A wordmat designed to mirror the VCOP display board in KS1. Includes VCOP superhero images courtesy of butterbeer and ilovemarmite. Double-sided wordmat - 1 side with VCOP sections, flipside with half-completed pirate similes, and well-known pirate sayings. Useful for writing about pirates or creation of a pirate adventure story.

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

Timetable cards for Show & Tell, Italian, Spanish, School Council, Guided Writing and Skipping Club.

A b/w image of a bottle with a b/w treasure map inside. Role-play, literacy writing inspiration... I am planning to roll and tie up with string so children can discover!

Worksheets to help read and heard the 'ig' rime. Pictures to help. Sheets differentiated.

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

Word cards containing ch food names. Designed to be used to match up with ch food pictures once sorted. See ch foods resource. Also three yes/no questions containing ch foods.

Pictures of words containing an /sh/ phoneme either at the beginning or the end of the word. Designed to be used to sort into two groups - those words that start with an sh, and those that end with an sh. Children to segment orally, and then scribe the word into phoneme frames.

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!

Topic planner mindmap covering children's experiences of new babies. Activity ideas across the 6 areas of learning, including role-play baby clinic and learning to look after a new baby.

Covers Funnybones (skeleton), Elmer (similarities and differences) and Owl Babies (needs).

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

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.

Early Years topic planner covering the 6 areas of learning, and suggested activities to be covered.

Topic planner mindmap covering Hallowe'en, focussing on book Pumpkin Soup. Non-fiction instructional text - reading, sequencing, writing and doing, as well as other activities.

Designed to be printed 2 to a page. Children can write on to spell, laminate and write with dry-wipe or use grapheme cards/written on bottle tops/stones etc to segment the words: boat, coat, goat, road, foal, goal, soap, coach. Works well as a follow-up to my /oa/ powerpoint or Green goat phonics book powerpoint.

PowerPoint version of my previous SMART notebook file. A short introduction to describing pumpkins, both on the outside and inside. Activity inspired by A-Z Teacher Stuff (lessons atoz) to make a non fiction pumpkin book. Children to write words, phrases or sentences to describe the outside and inside of the pumpkin. Can cut orange wool and seeds to stick on the inside of the book to illustrate. Also some words on pumpkins as display title Suitable for topics on autumn and Halloween

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