A simple minibeast riddle powerpoint. Print out 2 or 4 to a page as reading and matching cards. Spider, frog, butterfly, slug, snail, bee, millipede, ladybird.

A sheet to be used in group guided reading or Literacy to find and list all words beginning with different consonant blends scr, spl, spr, str, pl, cr, cl, pr, tw, thr Songbirds book The Scrap Rocket - Stage 3, reading recovery level 6

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.

A Y1 phonics screening practice activity to draw the sound buttons and then read real and 'alien' pseudo words for the /oo/ family plus a powerpoint of the words to practice as a class

A table showing usual language development of a person's first language from birth to KS4. Breaks down the typical development into Understanding, Expression, Speech and Social. If using with EAL children, establish the typical development in their home language; if normal pattern, English should be obtained fairly easily. If home language delayed, there will be a delay in learning English. Very useful also for EYFS.

Powerpoint presentation based on Phases 1-3 of Letters and Sounds for parents.

Phase 2 (consonant digraphs) and Phase 3 phonics chatterboxes. Real and pseudo (nonsense/alien) words. Alien images to assist with pseudo words. Brilliant for Year 1 phonics screening check revision. ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur er oo (book) qu ck Choose a colour and orally segment the word as you move the chatterbox. Choose a number and count as you move the chatterbox. Read your word!

Phase 5 phonics chatterboxes. Real and pseudo (nonsense/alien) words. Alien images to assist with pseudo words. Brilliant for Year 1 phonics screening check revision. ay ea ie ow ue ow ir ew au oy aw ou ph wh ure a-e e-e i-e o-e u-e Choose a colour and orally segment the word as you move the chatterbox. Choose a number and count as you move the chatterbox. Read your word!

A simple timeline frame and pictures for children to order. 2 sets of pictures - with or without captions for differentiation. Made to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday celebrations. Works well with my other product, The Queen at 90 PowerPoint.

RWInc style flashcards for graphemes /au/ and /oe/ including a caption/ditty. oe: potatoes and tomatoes au: Launch the astronaut Double-sided - first side has the grapheme in large text, the opposite side has a picture and caption.

A worksheet based on Eric Carle's book Brown Bear Brown Bear what do you see? Inspired by Chalk Talk a kindergarten blog featured on Pinterest I created this sheet to create a class name book. Each child writes their own name at the top twice (Annie Annie who do you see? I see Oliver looking at me) etc. I made our book in class alphabetical order! The child will then draw a picture of their friend in the middle of the page.

A variety of activities taken from different (mainly American) websites on beans. 1. Maths ideas (sorting, matching, counting, capacity and pouring, estimation, time and change, measuring, direction) 2. Growing beans and bean sprouts 3. Collages, songs and music 4. Drama Great ideas to go alongside Jack and the Beanstalk

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.

RWInc style flashcards for graphemes /wh/ and /ph/ including a caption/ditty. wh: Where is Dr Who? ph: Phil and Lil like Phonics! Double-sided - first side has the grapheme in large text, the opposite side has a picture and caption.

Jolly Phonics image, action, song lyrics and some key words for GPC /e/ and /i/.

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

RWInc style flashcards for grapheme /ck/ including the caption/ditty - lucky duck Double-sided - first side has the grapheme in large text, the opposite side has a picture, caption and includes some other ck words.

An emergent reading book designed for children learning consonant and vowel digraphs and trigraphs. Allows children to practise high frequency and tricky words. Includes information on most common superheroes: Spiderman, Superman, Wolverine, Iron Man, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Thor, The Hulk, Batman and Robin.

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!